Pacific Northwest Diabetes Research Institute

The Pacific Northwest Diabetes Research Institute (PNDRI) is a private non-profit biomedical and clinical research institute in Seattle, Washington, U.S.A. originally founded to investigate heart surgery, cancer and endocrine diseases. The current focus of the Institute 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.

History

It was the first such institute in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States and was created in 1956 by Dr. William B. Hutchinson under its former name the Pacific Northwest Research Foundation (PNRF); that name still remains on the exterior of the building. Its name evolved to the Pacific Northwest Research Institute (PNRI) until 2008 when the Institute added Diabetes to its name making it the Pacific Northwest Diabetes Research Institute. In 1972, PNRF received federal funding to develop a division called Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center into an independent research institute: This institute was opened 3 years later.

Name

The organization was founded in 1956 as the Pacific Northwest Research Foundation. In 1997 the organization changed its name to Pacific Northwest Research Institute. In 2008 the organization changed its name to Pacific Northwest Diabetes Research Institute.[1]

Staff

The Institute currently has 85 employees in 6 investigative teams. The current Scientific Director replacing R. Paul Robertson is Dr. William A. Hagopian M.D., Ph.D.

Community involvement

Each year the Institute hosts one of the Northwest's most successful wine events featuring one of the largest blind wine tasting games in the Puget Sound area. Boutique wineries from Washington State partner with the Institute to make An Evening of Wine feature Washington State's latest varietals.

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Notes
  1. ↑ "PNDRI Timeline". pndri.org. Retrieved 21 September 2011.
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