Cancer Research Institute

The Cancer Research Institute (CRI) is a US non-profit organization funding cancer research. Based in New York City, CRI was founded in 1953 to develop new treatments for cancer. It is a funding body for research rather than a research institute itself. It was founded by Helen Coley Nauts and Oliver R. Grace with a $2,000 grant from Nelson Rockefeller, created in honor of Nauts' father, William Coley, an American orthopedic surgeon and a pioneer of cancer immunotherapy.

The Institute focuses on immunological treatments for cancer, both single treatment approaches and treatments complementing chemotherapy and surgery. It offers research grants to students, postdoctoral fellows, and investigators at medical research institutions, funds clinical trials testing promising immunotherapies, and convenes scientific conferences for tumor immunologists.

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