AwardsFeatured Awards Washington Research Foundation Provides Additional $1.5M Grant for Dr. Jim Olson’s Novel Immunotherapy Program at Fred Hutch Washington Research Foundation | September 24, 2019 Washington Research Foundation (WRF) has pledged over $1.5 million in additional support for a novel…sciencecitySeptember 24, 2019 Read More
Local News University of Washington Spinout Split Bio Raises Cash for RNA Sequencing Kits GeekWire | September 23, 2019 University of Washington spinout Split Bio raised $560,000 in bridge financing to fund the manufacturing of kits…sciencecitySeptember 23, 2019 Read More
Local News An Old HIV Vaccine Surprises Researchers Once Again Fred Hutch | September 23, 2019 Nearly 16 years ago, leading AIDS researchers were so skeptical about an experimental HIV vaccine…sciencecitySeptember 23, 2019 Read More
Publications of the Week Mechanisms of Interplay between Transcription Factors and the 3D Genome Kim, S. & Shendure, J. | September 20, 2019 Transcription factors (TFs) bind DNA in a sequence-specific manner and thereby serve as the protein…sciencecitySeptember 20, 2019 Read More
AwardsFeatured Awards Researchers Receive $12 Million Grant to Develop Flu Vaccine Against Many Viral Strains The University of Chicago Medicine | September 20, 2019 Patrick Wilson, PhD, professor of medicine and rheumatology at the University of Chicago, and a…sciencecitySeptember 20, 2019 Read More
Local News Mystery Solved: How Graft-vs.-Host Disease Starts in the Gut Fred Hutch | September 20, 2019 Bone marrow transplants have been curing some blood cancers for decades. But for just as long,…sciencecitySeptember 20, 2019 Read More
Publications of the Week Innate Immunity Limits Protective Adaptive Immune Responses against Pre-Erythrocytic Malaria Parasites Minkah, N.K., et al. | September 19, 2019 The authors examined malaria vaccine efficacy in immunized mice in the presence or absence of…sciencecitySeptember 19, 2019 Read More
Local News Fred Hutch President Dr. Gary Gilliland to Step Down The Seattle Times | September 19, 2019 Dr. Gary Gilliland, president and director of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, announced Tuesday he…sciencecitySeptember 19, 2019 Read More
AwardsFeatured Awards Dr. Zhe Ying Receives Award to Study How Head and Neck Cancers Overcome Newly Discovered Tumor-Blocking Mechanism Fred Hutch | September 19, 2019 A mutation in a cancer-promoting gene is often considered the first step on the path…sciencecitySeptember 19, 2019 Read More
Local News Q&A with the Allen Institute for Immunology’s First Employee Allen Institute for Immunology | September 18, 2019 Ernie Coffey started his career in science with a bang. It was 1997 and he…sciencecitySeptember 18, 2019 Read More