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Bezos family donates $710M to Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
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FILE - A building at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, which merged with Seattle Cancer Care Alliance (SCCA), Seattle Children's and UW Medicine in early 2022 to create a unified adult cancer research center, is pictured on March 11, 2020, in Seattle. On Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2022, the Bezos Family Foundation announced a $710 million gift to the Seattle-based Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, the largest gift the center has ever received and one of the largest to go to any single cancer research organization in recent years. - photo by AP Photo/Stephen Brashear, File
The Bezos Family Foundation announced a $710 million gift to the Seattle-based Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, the largest gift the center has ever received and one of the largest to go to any single cancer research organization in recent years. The donation will fund 36 new research labs, the building of a large research facility, investments in clinical trial infrastructure and immunotherapy research over ten years, the center said Wednesday. Thomas Lynch, president and director of the center, rebranded this month as Fred Hutch, but widely known as The Hutch, said he worked with Mike and Jackie Bezos to understand what motivated their giving.