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Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
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The Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center was named for Frederick
Charles Hutchinson, a baseball player for the Seattle Rainiers and
Detroit Tigers and, later, baseball manager, who lost his life to lung
cancer in 1964 at the age of 45. The center was founded in 1965 by
Seattle surgeon Dr. William Hutchinson as a living memorial to his
brother. The organization's first facility opened next to Swedish
Medical Center on First Hill in 1975. It quickly outgrew this facility,
and by the mid-1980s had laboratories and other offices scattered over
some 13 buildings. After a citywide search for an area where they could
both build the state-of-the-art facility their research required and
also have room for expansion, Fred Hutchinson settled on South Lake
Union.
At the time the area was a mix of small commercial businesses, light
manufacturing facilities, rundown stores, and aging warehouses and
garages, with poorly maintained residential structures sprinkled in here
and there. Many of these were demolished to make way for Fred
Hutchinson's initial facility, which officially opened June 1, 1993, and
more have subsequently been removed to facilitate the organization's
growth. Fred Hutchinson is a world leader in research on cancer,
HIV/AIDS, and other life-threatening diseases. Its presence in South
Lake Union has not only continued to increase but has served as a magnet
for other biomedical research facilities, making Seattle a major force
in the global biomedical arena.
By Paula Becker, September 25, 2012
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