Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) is an
NCI-designated cancer research facility and hospital located on the campus of the
University of Utah
The University of Utah (the U, U of U, or simply Utah) is a public university, public research university in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. It was established in 1850 as the University of Deseret (Book of Mormon), Deseret by the General A ...
in
Salt Lake City
Salt Lake City, often shortened to Salt Lake or SLC, is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Utah. It is the county seat of Salt Lake County, the most populous county in the state. The city is the core of the Salt Lake Ci ...
, Utah. It is the only
National Cancer Institute
The National Cancer Institute (NCI) coordinates the United States National Cancer Program and is part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which is one of eleven agencies that are part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. ...
-designated
Comprehensive Cancer Center in the
Intermountain West.
Overview
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.
is HCI's chief executive officer and director.
In November 2013, Huntsman donated an additional $50 million for the construction of a new research building dedicated to researching children's cancer and cancers that run in families. The Primary Children's and Families' Research Center opened in 2017.
In 2015, the National Cancer Institute awarded HCI Comprehensive Cancer Center status.
Research
Scientists at the institute aim to understand cancer at a molecular and genetic level and strive to find new and more effective ways to treat this disease. A treatment approach based on genetic knowledge allows for more targeted, individualized cancer therapies.
Research programs
The center's research is supported by a Cancer Center Support Grant from the National Cancer Institute, which subsidizes cancer research performed by more than 130 members of the Cancer Center.
Sponsored Content controversy
In 2017, the
Sinclair Broadcasting Group
Sinclair, Inc., doing business as Sinclair Broadcast Group, is a publicly traded American telecommunications conglomerate that is controlled by the descendants of company founder Julian Sinclair Smith. Headquartered in the Baltimore suburb o ...
was fined 13.3 million US-$ by the
FCC for not properly designating
paid advertising content by the Huntsman Cancer Institute as such. 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. In a statement, Sinclair denounced the fine, which at that point was the largest ever imposed by the FCC, as "unreasonable".
[David Goldman: ]
Tempers flare at FCC over record Sinclair fine
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References
External links
Huntsman Cancer Institute
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Hospital buildings completed in 1999
Cancer hospitals
Medical research institutes in the United States
Medical and health organizations based in Utah
Teaching hospitals in Utah
University of Utah
1999 establishments in Utah
NCI-designated cancer centers