The past year has been marked by exceptional achievements – including our 50th anniversary – and inspiring moments, many ...

At Fred Hutch, we bring the same level of commitment and integrity to our patients, donors and investors that we do to our clinical care and scientific research. We take our responsibility seriously, ...

When Margie Wilson was diagnosed with endometrial cancer in 2016 after she experienced unexplained bleeding, she knew nothing about cancer. She didn’t even know what an oncologist does. A decade later ...

The Cancer Screening Research Network's (CSRN) primary focus is to reduce cancer-related illnesses and deaths by evaluating new and complex technologies that screen for cancer. The CSRN is a ...

Dr. Harold Weintraub, known to everyone as Hal, wanted to know. He wanted to know what makes a muscle cell a muscle, a nerve cell a nerve. The answers he uncovered opened the doors to stem cell ...

Molecule that highlights cancer cells for surgery was pioneered by Fred Hutch’s Dr. Jim Olson, licensed by Blaze Bioscience Inc. A new protein-linked dye derived from scorpion venom that lights up ...

Fred Hutch virologists eliminated at least 90% of HSV-1 in preclinical models of oral and genital herpes and reduced viral shedding in a study published in Nature Communications SEATTLE — May 13, 2024 ...

Editor's note: This is the first of a two-part series on cancer and depression. Part two will focus on a new screening tool to help identify patients at risk. When Ruth Kaminski learned that the “spot ...

Here’s an equation to solve: What do you get when you add research jargon with statistics and multiply by the human brain’s tricks of perception? The answer, for many of us, is confusion. Statistics ...

Zinc’s immune-boosting properties are well-established, but we’re still untangling how it works. In a new study published in late March in the scientific journal Blood, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research ...

The pathway Helena Ochoa followed to her current job as a scientist at Pfizer started in a learning lab at Fred Hutch Cancer Center. Ochoa first came to Fred Hutch on a high school field trip with her ...

An international team of researchers co-led by Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center’s genetic epidemiologist Ulrike (Riki) Peters, PhD, has pinpointed what’s likely driving many colorectal cancers in people ...