The聽Brotman Baty Institute for Personalized Medicine has launched in Seattle with a聽goal of pursuing one of the most sought-after and elusive goals in science: Treatments tailored to individual patients. Named for Costco co-founder Jeff Brotman and his lifelong friend, Dan Baty, whose families made a combined $50 million gift to create the BBI, the institute will be a collaboration between 91探花Medicine, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, and Seattle Children’s. Researchers with the institute will work to聽discover聽personalized treatments聽based聽on聽patients’ individual聽genetic and molecular profiles.聽Dr. Jay Shendure,聽professor of genome sciences at the 91探花 School of Medicine, will direct the BBI Institute. Read more from .