Nobel Laureate Jennifer A. Doudna, PhD, kicked off Fred Hutch Cancer Center's inaugural President's Seminar Series last week. She spoke about CRISPR, the gene-editing tool she helped pioneer, and how ...

The Science Education Partnership (SEP) group at Fred Hutch Cancer Center received a $1.35 million, five-year grant earlier ...

Bone marrow, or hematopoietic stem cell, transplantation (HCT) is frequently used to treat patients with leukemia by replacing the diseased bone marrow with healthy bone marrow from a donor. Yet, a ...

Targeted cancer therapies are an expanding field of effective therapeutic approaches. While previous chemotherapy agents indiscriminately killed rapidly proliferating cells, newer “precision medicine” ...

I have been working at Fred Hutch since 2024 and provide genetic counseling for a variety of hereditary cancer syndromes. My passion for cancer genetic counseling is driven by the immense potential it ...

“Juvenile Dermatomyositis (JDM) is a rare immune-mediated disease that affects children, leading to muscle weakness and skin rashes,” explains Sean Koester, a current medical student at the University ...

We’ve all heard the saying "Eat your fruits and veggies, get your steps in, and live longer." While we know diet and exercise are crucial to our health, many of us fall short of meeting the ...

Recent research from the lab of Dr. Nicolas Lehrbach, an Assistant Professor in the Basic Sciences Division at Fred Hutch, discovered that altering nucleotide metabolism may bypass proteasome defects ...

Vaccines are one of the most important medical inventions of modern times that have saved and enhanced innumerable lives around the world. Despite the technological advances in vaccine design and ...

Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related deaths among American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) individuals, where lung cancer incidence remains disproportionately high compared to other ...

Following organ transplantation, cytomegalovirus (CMV) reactivation is a common and serious adverse in event in many patients, mainly due to the use of immunosuppressive drugs to prevent rejection of ...