Could immunotherapy cure HIV? $2.6M grant will help Fred Hutch researcher find out http://www.geekwire.com/2017/immunotherapy-cure-hiv-2-6m-grant-will-help-fred-hutch-researcher-find/ Dr. Larry Corey — a pioneering HIV researcher and former president and director of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center — is hoping that CAR T cell immunotherapy could be the key to cures for HIV patients. And his work just got a $2.6 million boost. The grant comes from California-based biopharmaceutical company Gilead Sciences. It will allow Corey and his team to investigate whether the CAR T cell therapies being developed at Fred Hutch could overcome challenges to treating and curing HIV, Corey said in a news release.