Jon Huntsman
There has to be a lot to be admired by Jon Huntsman, Sr, a philanthropist and businessman. He made a personal pledge of $100 million from his own money to start the Huntsman Cancer Institute.
Since then Huntsman has actually now donated of his own wealth $250 million dollars.
Mary Beckerle PhD, serves as the Institutes’s executive director.
Jon M. Huntsman, chairman of Huntsman Cancer foundation says: “We will place into society assistance for those who suffer, hope for those who may need inspiration, and education for those who may feel the challenge but do not have the means.”
At the Huntsman Cancer Institute , Physicians and scientists aim to understand cancer at a genetic and molecular level.
A long time leader of human genetics, The University of Utah, set the stage for the establishment of the Huntsman Cancer Institute, a place where researchers work to fully understand the process of cancer and devise new ways to treat it.
More targeted and idividualised therapies come from gentic knowledge in Treatment approach.