- The University of Washington (UW) is awarded approximately $1 billion in externally funded, peer reviewed research every year, and is second only to Harvard in total National Institutes of Health research funding and second only to Johns Hopkins in total Federal research funding.
- Washington's Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, with 2,800 employees, 200 faculty and an annual research budget of over $250 million, is the nation's premier private research institution and receives more National Cancer Institute funding than any other private research institute.
- The Infectious Disease Research Institute (IDRI), founded in 1993, targets neglected diseases based on their threat to public health and lack of a vaccine diagnostic or effective therapeutic.
- A total of 15 research organizations, three research hospitals and one of the nation’s leading public research universities call Seattle home.