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August 26, 2019
Breast Cancer Research Foundation funds 8 Fred Hutch/UW Cancer Consortium scientists
Nearly $2M will go toward potential therapies for metastatic disease and better risk reduction through diet and exercise
It runs in the family
From Michelle Baglia, Christopher Li, Public Health Science and Peggy Porter, Human Biology divisions
Dr. Kevin Cheung receives prestigious ‘Era of Hope’ Scholar Award
$4.1 million, four-year award to advance understanding of breast cancer metastasis
Lobular breast cancer comes into the research spotlight
Research collaborations, patient advocates push to explore ‘sneaky,’ understudied subtype’s standing as a distinct disease
Q & A with Dr. Peggy Porter: Targeted breast cancer treatments require diverse research data
Breast cancer researcher discusses need to extend research and results to minority women
Good News: NCI awards Dr. Ruth Etzioni 5-year grant to fill gaps in cancer-recurrence data
Celebrating faculty and staff achievements
New strides in metastatic breast cancer research give patients hope
New strides in metastatic breast cancer research and advocacy give patients, scientists hope
Q&A: A conversation about gender bias in science
Seattle researchers gather for AWIS-Hutch United panel on women in science
NWBioTrust: Enhancing access to biospecimens for research
New resource collaboration will increase availability of human blood and tissues samples to benefit research and the community
Cancer chemotherapy resistance: Hutchinson Center team discovers new mechanism
Noncancerous fibroblasts when exposed to chemotherapy sustain DNA damage that drives the production of an array of factors that stimulate solid tumor cancer growth
Injectable contraceptives may increase young womens' breast cancer risk
Christopher Li study finds recent use or a year or more doubles the risk of invasive breast cancer
Porter leads new shared resource for specimen collection
Consortium Biospecimen Resource will foster collaborations and advance solid tumor translational research by uniting existing repositories and providing a centralized collection service
Safeway donates $1 million for breast cancer research and care
Gifts to Center, SCCA, UW continue company’s support of breast cancer efforts
Center/UW research group wins AACR Team Science Award
Denise Galloway-led interdisciplinary team honored for more than two decades of innovative work on human papillomavirus
Denise Galloway and colleagues at Hutchinson Center and University of Washington receive AACR Team Science Award
Research team is honored for contributions toward developing HPV vaccine
Center awarded $11.5 million for breast cancer research consortium
Porter, Cheever will lead the five-year Seattle-based SPORE in projects including development of targeted treatments for drug-resistant tumors
NCI awards $11.5 million to Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center to lead breast cancer research consortium
Projects include developing targeted therapies to treat drug-resistant tumors
Health services researcher joins Clinical
Trice Loggers brings expertise in comparative effectiveness, palliative care
$10.24 million for Latina breast cancer research
Beti Thompson to lead five-year effort based at Center
Porter wins nearly $5 million from LSDF
State Life Sciences Discovery Fund grant will promote Consortium biospecimen research
Center leads new Chernobyl study
Five-year project will examine effects of radiation exposure on premenopausal breast-cancer risk and whether such risk differs according to the breast-cancer characteristics
The troubling global trend for breast cancer
With greater affluence comes a global increase in breast-cancer risk, reports cancer biology researcher Peggy Porter
The melding of diverse minds around proteomics initiative
Paulovich Lab harnesses specialists from a variety of fields for contributions to $104 million National Cancer Institute network