Pacific Northwest Research Institute

The Pacific Northwest Research Institute is a private non-profit biomedical and clinical research institute in Seattle, Washington, U.S.A. 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.

It was the first such institute in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. It was created in 1956 by Dr. William B. Hutchinson. The current President and Scientific Director is R. Paul Robertson.