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| Jon and Karen Huntsman |
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Jon M. Huntsman, Sr. often speaks of how his mother, father, and stepmother all died of cancer, and of his pledge to use his resources to do everything in his means to defeat the disease. Mr.Huntsman, a cancer survivor himself, and his wife Karen's gift of $225 million built and supports Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI), a world-class cancer research and treatment facility in Salt Lake City with outreach affiliations in Idaho, Wyoming, Montana, and southern Utah, and the Huntsman Cancer Hospital. Huntsman Cancer Institute's mission is to understand cancer from its beginnings, |
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| to use that knowledge in the creation and improvement of cancer treatments, to relieve the suffering of cancer patients, and to provide education about cancer risk, prevention, and care.To that end, Huntsman Cancer Institute, with three floors of laboratories, a learning center, and a patient care facility opened its doors to the Intermountain West in 1999. The next phase of comprehensive care began with the admittance of patients to the Huntsman Cancer Hospital in June of 2004. |
| Mr. Huntsman is the chairman and founder of Huntsman Corporation. By 2000, it had become the world's largest family-owned and -operated business. He was a special assistant to the president in the Nixon White House, was the first American to own controlling interest of a business in the former Soviet Union, and is the chairman of the Board of Overseers for Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He is widely known as one of America's foremost philanthropists. His significant contributions to the homeless, the ill, and the underprivileged have assisted thousands. He is also author of the book, Winners Never Cheat. |
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