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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.
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Harness the immune system to fight cancer and bring breakthrough immunotherapies to patients with solid tumors.
Tailor cancer therapies to each patient’s cancer and genetic makeup.
Connect data, new technologies and bench science to radically accelerate our insights.
Expand our research on viruses, especially those related to cancer and the COVID-19 virus.
— Mark Fleischauer, member, Fred Hutch Board of Trustees
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.
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.
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.
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.
“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
“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