dr. maloney made his remarks, we will open it up to questions. when you are called on to pose a question, identify yourself by name and organization. dr. gilliland? >>> thank you very much david for that fantastic introduction. i think you covered most of my talking points. i am gary gilliland, the president and director of the fred hutch. my colleague, dr. david maloney and i are excited to be here for an important announcement. i'll start with what david alluded to, which is the fred hutch has been in existence for about 41 years. it's the place where bone marrow transplantation was invented by dr. don thomas. he went on to win the nobel prize for that work where patients with leukemias are treated with chemotherapy and radiation. such high doses they would die from that treatment meant to rad kate the leukemia. what we didn't appreciate at the time but came to an understanding of is that it was the donor's immune system that was so critical and the cure for potential of bone marrow transplantation. we didn't understand how that worked at the ti

dr. maloney, the medical director of the unit. it is the first of its kind, state of the art, 15 bed unit that is patient centric. we bring everything to the patient, including new therapies that require intensive much as withea stem cell transportation in the early days, we are sure this will propagate across the country, as our bone marrow transplant programs did. we are very excited to be on the leading edge of innovation of this space, to be able to treat patients with these new immunotherapeutic approaches. and we are grateful to the bezos family for believing in us. they do not provide resources to name something. they are providing resources to shine a spotlight on the , and on on the patient the investigators. we are delighted to be able to work together with them toward developing curative approaches to cancer. so what about that "cure" word. it is a bold and provocative statement to say that we are on the cusp -- we are on an inflection point where we can anticipate seeing more and more curative therapies for cancer invo

dr. maloney complete his remarks i open to questions.it will go to priority media and national press club members. identify yourself by name and organization. dr. gilliland. >> thank you very much, david, for that fantastic introduction. i think you covered most of my talking point so, but i am gary gilliland. i'm the president and director of the fred hutch. my colleague dr. david maloney and i are absolutely delighted to be here at the national press club for an important announcement and i will start with what david alluded to which is the fred hutch has been in existence for 41 years. it is the place where bone marrow transplantation was invented by dr. don thomas. dr. thomas went on to win the nobel prize for the work. which patients with lethal form of canners are treated with radiation therapy and chemotherapy, such high doses they would die from treatments to eradicate if they did not have bone narrow infused to rescue from the chemotherapy. what we didn't appreciate at the time but gain ad understanding of, it was donor's immune

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