National Foundation for Cancer Research
National Foundation for Cancer Research (NFCR) is an American nonprofit organization founded in 1973.[1] It provides funds to cancer scientists and researchers, with the ultimate goal of a cure for cancer.
Awards
The Szent-Györgyi Prize for Progress in Cancer Research, established by the NFCR and named in honor of Albert Szent-Györgyi, Nobel Laureate and co-founder of NFCR, has been awarded annually since 2006 to outstanding researchers whose scientific achievements have expanded the understanding of cancer and whose vision has moved cancer research in new directions. The Szent-Györgyi Prize honors researchers whose discoveries have made possible new approaches to preventing, diagnosing and/or treating cancer.[2]
gollark: Randomized controlled trials?
gollark: I didn't, no.
gollark: It wasn't that. It was some weird historical factors, and it being easy to write compilers for, and being tied to Unix.
gollark: Idea: go to the fairly recent past, bring a random laptop or something, wow people with your more powerful computer.
gollark: The programmers of the past were better than you, and made their programming languages from scratch on less power than random microcontrollers have.
References
- "NFCR: About Us". National Foundation for Cancer Research. Retrieved 3 October 2018.
- "Szent-Györgyi Prize". National Foundation for Cancer Research. Archived from the original on 15 February 2017. Retrieved 8 November 2016.
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