The Pacific Northwest Research Institute (PNRI) is a private non-profit biomedical and clinical research institute in the northwest United States, located in Seattle, Washington.
Founded to investigate heart surgery, cancer, and endocrine diseases, its current focus is pioneering genetic research to find new solutions to improve human health.
A second-generation physician, founder Hutchinson (1909–1997) was a surgeon and an older brother of Major League Baseball pitcher and manager Fred Hutchinson, who died of lung cancer at age 45 in 1964.
Senator Warren G. Magnuson to create in Seattle one of the 15 new cancer centers called for under 1971 Act; the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center was founded in 1972 and its building opened 3 years later.
[5][6][7][8]: 3, 5 The organization was founded in 1956 as the Pacific Northwest Research Foundation, whose name is still on the exterior of the building.