Combined, University of Washington Medicine and Fred Hutch received $5.8B in NIH funding between 2020 and 2025, as of February 10, 2025. Research at Fred Hutch has led to the creation of 52 companies nationwide, according to its website.
“Cancer and vaccines are not political. They shouldn’t be,” Dr. Thomas Lynch, president and director of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, says. “And one of the great things about our country is that for the vast majority of our (history), science has been a bipartisan area to support.”