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Untangling how body location promotes cancer
Beronja Lab postdoc Rachel Lex receives ACS fellowship to uncover regional factors driving tumor development

How cancer doesn't happen - Part 2
Our bodies can keep tumors at bay, even if our cells harbor cancer-driving mutations

Rethinking why cancer doesn't happen - Part 1
Hutch scientists look beyond DNA to understand how our bodies stop tumors before they start and find new ways prevent cancer

Dr. Siqi Li named a 2022 Damon Runyon Fellow
Beronja Lab postdoc will study how interactions between normal and mutated skin stem cells stave off cancer

Two opposing “agendas” keep skin mutant cell clusters at an impasse
From the Beronja lab, Human Biology Division

Mutated skin stem cells self-correct to prevent cancer
New study helps explain why inherited cancer-driving mutations don’t always lead to cancer

A breast tumor might have thousands of mutations. Which are important?
In support of precision medicine, new method enables scientists to separate cancer-driving mutations from passengers

Dr. Zhe Ying receives award to study how head and neck cancers overcome newly discovered tumor-blocking mechanism
Postdoc’s Pathway to Independence Award will help lay the foundation for his early career

Eight promising projects win Evergreen Fund grants to promote commercialization of research
A dozen scientists to receive up to $200K from 3-year-old Fred Hutch program

Researchers identify new way skin stops tumor growth
‘Oncogene-induced differentiation’ joins two other strategies for counteracting potentially cancer-causing DNA changes

Good News: Dr. Cyrus Ghajar receives $1M from Keck Foundation to study why cancer doesn’t spread to skeletal muscle
Celebrating faculty and staff achievements

Cell biologist Beronja joins Fred Hutch faculty
Slobodan Beronja’s Human Biology Division lab uses skin as a model system for understanding cancer development