About Us
Lee Hartwell, Ph.D., is president and director emeritus of Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and recipient of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Under Hartwell's leadership, the Center increased its emphasis on interdisciplinary research and established its Human Biology Division and Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division.
Robert Day, M.D., Ph.D., is president and director emeritus of Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.
Day was instrumental in securing the land and funding to build the Hutchinson Center's unified campus, which is named in his honor, in Seattle's South Lake Union neighborhood. Day's contributions also include establishing the Center's scientific division structure.
William Hutchinson, M.D., brother of baseball hero Fred Hutchinson, was the visionary who first conceived of Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.
Hutchinson worked with local political and community leaders to establish the Center and to open its first headquarters in Seattle's First Hill neighborhood in 1975.
The Hutchinson Center's world-renowned scientists are discovering new ways to detect, prevent and treat cancer, HIV/AIDS and many other diseases.
The Hutchinson Center's world-renowned researchers work together to pursue lifesaving therapies that will help eliminate cancer and related diseases.
The Hutchinson Center's clinical research breakthroughs are delivered to patients through our treatment arm, the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance. This collaboration combines the strengths of the Hutchinson Center, UW Medicine and Seattle Children's.
You can help eliminate cancer and related diseases by attending Hutchinson Center events and participating in our other fundraising and community efforts.
The Hutchinson Center's pioneering researchers push the boundaries of science to find new ways to prevent, detect and treat cancer and related diseases.
Private support is critical to fund new research ideas and innovations, accelerating our ability to make lifesaving discoveries.
