The campus of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle. The new building is slated for a nearby parking lot on the campus. (Fred Hutch Photo) A gift of $78 million will seed a new institute at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center and support research into precision oncology, a field that aims to assess the biological…
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Mike and Jackie Bezos. (Fred Hutch Photo) Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center on Wednesday announced an enormous philanthropic gift of $710.5 million from Jackie and Mike Bezos, the parents of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, pledged on behalf of the Bezos family. “This is a transformative gift,” said Dr. Thomas Lynch, Fred Hutch president and director, in…
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Fred Hutch psychologist and associate professor Megan Shen at the 2022 GeekWire Summit. (GeekWire Photo / Dan DeLong). The phrase “burnout” has taken on new meaning during the pandemic. Forty percent of people in 2020 said the pandemic had affected their mental health, according to data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control. Women and…