Tompa: Alice’s Adventures at the Hutch

In an interview she tweeted was the pinnacle of her career 🙂, Rachel Tompa interviews Alice Waters for Hutch News. Why was the superstar chef and activist and founder of restaurant Chez Panisse at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center? To talk about lifelong...

James: Solutions to Knotty Problems

In Seattle Business, Sally James profiles James Olson, a Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center scientist who is working on knottins. The naturally occurring peptides hold promise for treating cancer, Alzheimer’s and other diseases. Sally writes that Olson believes in...

Keown: Immunotherapy Answers

The vice president has questions, Susan Keown has answers. Joe Biden recently visited Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center as part of the National Cancer Moonshot initiative. Ahead of his visit, Susan (@sejkeown), writing for Hutch News, asked experts six questions...

Tompa: Making Time

Rachel Tompa’s piece in Hutch News mixes marijuana, suspended animation, and musings on the nature of time—all covered in Dr. Mark Roth’s Fred Hutch talk to an admittedly stoned but highly engaged audience. The lecture that @Rachel_Tompa covered was part...

Tompa: Maxine Linial, Unstoppable

What is science without sight? Rachel Tompa answers with a profile in Quest of Maxine Linial, a virologist at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. Blinded when she was hit by a car in 2010, Dr. Linial had to rethink and restart her research career. Rachel describes...