In the fight to cure cancer, the heavyweight is the United States government. No entity has invested more in research to identify, treat and avoid it.
And so it is for the University of Utah’s Huntsman Cancer Institute. Donations from the Huntsman family and others were combined with the university’s braintrust of medical researchers to establish an institute that would be a premier facility in the nation for both research and clinical care.
That, in turn, brought in more top scientists. Those scientists then applied for grants to carry out their research, and most of those grants came from the National Cancer Institute and other federal research funders.