Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center receives ‘transformative’ $710.5M gift from the Bezos family

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Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center on Wednesday announced an enormous philanthropic gift of $710.5 million from Jackie and Mike Bezos, the parents of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, pledged on behalf of the Bezos family. “This is a transformative gift,” said Dr. Thomas Lynch, Fred Hutch president and director, in an interview with GeekWire. “It is going to allow us to accelerate the pace and scale of research in both cancer and infectious disease.”

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