The Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

How did it start? Seattle cancer surgeon Bill Hutchinson started the ball rolling in 1956. His aim was to found an institution that would provide both funds and lab space for medical researchers and in 1960, with help from the Department of Public Health, he set up The Pacific Northwest Research Foundation. It was in 1965, after the untimely death from lung cancer of his brother, Fred, that Bill Hutchinson added a cancer division and named it after him.