Fred Hutch announces 2022 Eddie Méndez Award recipients

Nicole Fleming joins Fred Hutch as deputy CMO

Nicole D. Fleming has joined Fred Hutch Cancer Center as the new deputy chief medical officer. Fleming brings expertise as a doctor, surgeon, researcher, administrator, mentor, and mother of three school-age children that fits well with the mission of a recently merged organization coping with growing pains.

Fred Hutch receives $2M gift to endow the Bob and Pat Herbold Computational Biology Endowed Chair

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center received a $2 million gift from philanthropists Bob and Pat Herbold to create the Bob and Pat Herbold Computational Biology Endowed Chair.

Fred Hutch, UW, and Seattle Children’s consortium researchers receive $1.7M from Breast Cancer Research Foundation

Six Fred Hutch/University of Washington/Seattle Children’s Cancer Consortium scientists received $1.7M in grants from Breast Cancer Research Foundation to launch or continue studies aimed at improving outcomes in breast cancer.

Judith Kleinerman receives ASH Exemplary Service Award

The American Society of Hematology will recognize Judith Kleinerman as the recipient of the 2024 ASH Exemplary Service Award.

Clinical Roundup

Engineered HSV can trigger genetic chain reaction, rearrange HSV genes during co-infection

In preclinical work recently published in Nature Communications, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center scientists used a genetic “chain reaction” to transform herpes simplex virus DNA during an HSV infection.