Pacific Northwest Diabetes Research Institute

The Pacific Northwest Diabetes Research Institute (PNDRI) is a private non-profit biomedical and clinical research institute in the northwest United States, located in Seattle, Washington.

Founded to investigate heart surgery, cancer, and endocrine diseases, its current focus is pioneering basic and clinical research to prevent diabetes, to arrest its development, to block and reduce its complications, and to treat it more effectively.

The first such institute in the Pacific Northwest, it was created 61 years ago in 1956 by Dr. William B. Hutchinson as the Pacific Northwest Research Foundation (PNRF). A second-generation physician, founder Hutchinson (1909–1997) was a surgeon and an older brother of major league baseball pitcher and manager Fred Hutchinson, who died of lung cancer at age 45 in 1964.

In 1972, PNRF received federal funding under the National Cancer Act of 1971 with the help of U.S. Senator Warren G. Magnuson to create in Seattle one of the 15 new cancer centers called for under 1971 Act; the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center was founded in 1972 and its building opened 3 years later.

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