The map apps on mobile phones don’t just show the route, they can guide people street by street — even building by building. It took years of data gathering, development and analysis to provde mapping with this much precision. Researchers believe that precision oncology holds similar potential: To use mountains of data and cutting-edge computational tools to help each cancer patient — and their clinicians — better navigate their unique disease.
A transformational commitment by Stuart Sloan and his wife Molly Sloan of $78 million to establish the Stuart and Molly Sloan Precision Oncology Institute at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center aims to help researchers fulfill the early promise of this data-driven approach. The largest single gift in Fred Hutch’s 47-year history will go toward the recruitment of an institute director and scientific programs that will aim to spark innovative new discoveries, and a new building to house the laboratory space and enabling technologies critical to those discoveries. Read more.
