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Bold Science Needs You

Your unrestricted gift fuels vital research, vigorous science, and a commitment to cures. 

Unrestricted Gifts Go Right To Work

When you donate flexible funds, you ensure that we can provide the space, resources and stability our scientists and clinicians need to work relentlessly, every day, to stop cancer and infectious disease and save lives. From faculty recruitment and critical scientific priorities to center-wide patient supportive services, your support fuels mission-critical expenses and accelerates our ability to unite innovative research and compassionate care.

Dr. Melinda Biernacki
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Your Donation Makes Innovation Possible

Hutch researchers are proud to be among the top recipients of federal funding. Yet only 8% of all federal grant applications are successful — and this funding continues to shrink. More importantly, federal funds don’t often support new or early-stage research: the bold ideas that lead to breakthroughs. That’s where you come in.

Your unrestricted contribution:

  • Allows Hutch scientists to move faster, pursue uncharted paths and follow science where it leads. 
  • Seeds early research, ensuring that promising ideas get traction.
  • Jumpstarts work by early-career researchers, whose fresh ideas can lead to new paradigms in science.
  • Nurtures new ideas until they’re big enough to attract federal and industry funding, leveraging your gift into millions more for lifesaving science.
  • Strengthens our ability to advance our clinical excellence.

The very ideas that could save our loved ones need all of our help to reach patients. Your support makes the difference.

Your unrestricted gift fuels vital work at Fred Hutch.

Your gift drives our research engine and supports our ability to unite innovative research and compassionate care.

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Immunotherapy

Immunotherapy

Harness the immune system to fight cancer and bring breakthrough immunotherapies to patients with solid tumors.

Cells under a microscope

Precision Medicine

Precision Medicine

Tailor cancer therapies to each patient’s cancer and genetic makeup.

Data Center

Integration of Data, Technology and Science

Integration of Data, Technology and Science

Connect data, new technologies and bench science to radically accelerate our insights.

Covid-19 virus

Interdisciplinary Research on Viruses

Interdisciplinary Research on Viruses

Expand our research on viruses, especially those related to cancer and the COVID-19 virus.

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“If you're looking at risk-reward, there's no greater reward than providing and prolonging human life and ending suffering. …We need philanthropy to give the Hutch the freedom to experiment, to look around the corners at other ways of approaching this disease.”

— Mark Fleischauer, member, Fred Hutch Board of Trustees

Featured Researchers

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Dr. Mazyar Shadman

Physician-scientist Dr. Mazyar Shadman strives to achieve a longer and better-quality life for those he cares for by identifying the best immunotherapies and targeted therapies for each patient.

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Dr. Lucas Sullivan

Dr. Lucas Sullivan outlines the metabolic pathways that tumors rely on to grow and progress, including identifying potential targets for future cancer therapies. To do so, he questions every biochemical rule in the textbook.

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Dr. Alice Berger

Dr. Alice Berger, who holds the Innovators Network Endowed Chair, combines laboratory studies with computational biology to understand how different gene variants contribute to cancer development.

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Dr. Nina Salama

Dr. Nina Salama, who holds the Dr. Penny E. Petersen Memorial Chair for Lymphoma Research, is revealing how the bacterium H. pylori colonizes the stomach, triggers inflammation and can cause cancer.

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Your unrestricted gift fuels vital work at Fred Hutch.

Dr. Michael Emerman and Dr. Harmit Malik
Dr. Michael Emerman and Dr. Harmit Malik Fred Hutch file

Going Beyond What We Know

“It's actually the risky projects which have the bigger chance of completely changing paradigms. There are multiple labs at the Hutch where they're changing textbook definitions about what we know about biology, and that's bound to have a profound impact on how we understand life and how we practice medicine.”

— Dr. Harmit Malik, Professor and Associate Director, Basic Sciences Division, Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator

Going Beyond What We Know

“It's actually the risky projects which have the bigger chance of completely changing paradigms. There are multiple labs at the Hutch where they're changing textbook definitions about what we know about biology, and that's bound to have a profound impact on how we understand life and how we practice medicine.”

— Dr. Harmit Malik, Professor and Associate Director, Basic Sciences Division, Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator