The Hutch has become like almost every institution and company in virtually every field on earth: Its future depends on data. As Hutch president Gary Gilliland has concluded, data is “going to transform cancer prevention, diagnosis and treatment.”7 He notes that researchers are turning data into a “fantastic new microscope” that shows “how our immune system responds to diseases like cancer.”8 As a result, the future of biomedical science is no longer in biology alone, but in its convergence with computer science and data science.
