Huntsman Cancer Institute | |
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Geography | |
Location | Salt Lake City, Utah, United States |
Coordinates | 40°46′21″N 111°50′04″W / 40.7725°N 111.8345°W |
Organization | |
Care system | Public |
Type | Teaching |
Affiliated university | University of Utah |
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Website | http://www.huntsmancancer.org/ Official |
Lists | Hospitals in Utah |
Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) is an NCI-designated cancer research facility and hospital located on the campus of the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, Utah. It is the only National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center in the Intermountain West.
Huntsman Cancer Institute was founded with a pledge of $100 million of personal wealth from Jon Huntsman Sr., a philanthropist and businessman. To date, Huntsman has donated more than $250 million of his own money since Huntsman Cancer Institute was established. [1] Mary Beckerle is HCI's chief executive officer and director. [2]
In November 2013, Huntsman donated an additional $50 million for the construction of a new research building dedicated to researching children's cancer and cancers that run in families. The Primary Children's and Families' Research Center opened in 2017. [3]
In 2015, the National Cancer Institute awarded HCI Comprehensive Cancer Center status. [4]
Scientists at the institute aim to understand cancer at a molecular and genetic level and strive to find new and more effective ways to treat this disease. A treatment approach based on genetic knowledge allows for more targeted, individualized cancer therapies.
The center's research is supported by a Cancer Center Support Grant from the National Cancer Institute, which subsidizes cancer research performed by more than 130 members of the Cancer Center. [5]
In 2017, the Sinclair Broadcasting Group was fined 13.3 million US-$ by the FCC for not properly designating paid advertising content by the Huntsman Cancer Institute as such. [6] The advertisements, either in the form of 60- or 90-second shorts or half-hour standalone programs, were shown over 1700 times in SBG-affiliated broadcasts. [7] In a statement, Sinclair denounced the fine, which at that point was the largest ever imposed by the FCC, [8] as "unreasonable". [9]