National Foundation for Cancer Research

NFCR research funding promotes and facilitates worldwide collaboration among scientists to accelerate the pace of discovery from laboratory bench to patient bedside. We support of laboratories and dozens of scientists over the past 45 years has helped make possible cancer treatments that are saving lives today. In addition, NFCR provides cancer information to more than 25 million U.S. households annually to raise public awareness about cancer prevention and early diagnosis.

NFCR seeks to pool immediately deployable funding to provide support for both basic and translational cancer research in and with some of America's best laboratories and their leading directors and teams. Also, we aim to educate more than 25 million U.S. households per year on the steps they and their loved ones can take to reduce cancer risk and better understand the disease.

NFCR offers robust research grants to some of America's best cancer researchers, funding that is unavailable from many other more traditional sources, such as universities, government agencies or corporations. We also have cultivated a constituency base of over 25 million U.S. households to whom we offer succinct, digestible cancer research updates, as well as early diagnosis and preventive best practices. This is all performed in conjunction with a world-class Scientific Advisory Board and is aided by the platform afforded by our creation and annual presentation of one of the global cancer research communities' most prestigious awards: the Szent-Gyorgyi Prize for Progress in Cancer Research, named after NFCR's Nobel Prize winning co-founder, Albert Szent-Gyorgyi.

NFCR has provided more than $380 million for cutting-edge cancer research. We have supported hundreds of scientists since our founding in 1973. And we won't be finished until there is a cure for all cancer types.