The Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, one of SCCA’s three parent organizations, has the largest transplant program in the world. Patients who are here for a transplant are treated at SCCA facilities. The FHCRC is also home to three Nobel Prize winners in the field of medicine. Dr. E. Donnall Thomas won the Nobel in 1990, for his pioneering work in bone-marrow transplantation. In 2001, Dr. Lee Hartwell, president and director of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, won the Nobel for his pioneering work in yeast genetics, which helps explain the uncontrolled growth of cancer cells. Most recently, in 2004, Linda Buck, Ph.D., won the Nobel Prize for research that unlocks the mystery of how humans smell. |