The National Foundation for Cancer Research (NFCR)—The NFCR was founded in 1973 to support basic science cancer research in the laboratory. The NFCR's program of basic science cancer research conducted at both the cellular and molecular levels is leading to better prevention, earlier diagnostic techniques, new treatments, and eventually a cure for cancer.

By supporting the best ideas of the best minds, and by facilitating collaboration among scientists, advances in one field contribute to discoveries in another.

This is what NFCR's "Laboratory Without Walls" makes possible.

Since 1973 NFCR has provided more than $170 million to fund discovery-oriented research that has played a key role in many current breakthroughs in the prevention, diagnosis and new treatments of all types of cancer.

In 2000 the NFCR funded a virtual centre, the Centre for Computational Drug Discovery, directed from Oxford University's Department of Chemistry by Professor Graham Richards.