Since it's founding in 1973, National Foundation for Cancer Research (NFCR) has provided more than $230 million to fund basic science cancer research in the laboratory. NFCR is dedicated to the research for a cure and is committed to funding cancer research scientists around the world in searching for the cures for all types of cancers.

NFCR provides seed funding for innovative research that is difficult, if not impossible, to obtain from other sources. The latest groundbreaking project is known as Ultrafast Shape Recognition, the new searching system that creates an accurate mathematical picture for the shape of any chemical compounds and allows molecules with similar shapes to be sought out very quickly from Oxford's database of 3.5 billion molecule structures.

There is no speed limit on the way to find new anticancer drugs. The ultrafast speed provided by USR method in searching for novel drug leads will bring significant benefits not only to cancer research, but to other areas of medical research as well," said Dr. Michael Wang, Vice President of Science with the National Foundation for Cancer Research.

In March 2007, NFCR became full UICC member.