Through our Designated Grants Program, we make awards and administer funding for outside donors who have requested their gifts be directed to certain research areas. Here are three categories of those designated grants. Click here for a list of recent Designated Grant recipients. 

• AIDS Program
  CRI provides funding to scientists investigating how the AIDS virus infects the cells of the immune system and how the virus can be deterred. Our commitment to AIDS research dates back to 1983, when we were among the first private research funding organizations to recognize the urgency of the emerging AIDS epidemic and to see the relationship of the disease to certain types of cancer.
  
  
• Concern Foundation Program
  Since 1981, the Cancer Research Institute and the Concern Foundation for Cancer Research of Beverly Hills in California have provided joint support to the laboratory of Dr. George Klein at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden. Dr. Klein is one of the world’s leading tumor biologists. He and his colleagues have pioneered research into the role of the Epstein-Barr virus in causing Burkitt’s lymphoma (a type of cancer) and other diseases. Moreover, Dr. Klein’s laboratory has been a training center for a large number of outstanding scientists from Russia and other former Communist countries where scientific opportunities have been limited.
  
  
• Gar Reichman Program
  Through the Gar Reichman Fund, CRI supports the work of Dr. Malcolm A.S. Moore, who heads the Gar Reichman Laboratory and holds the Enid A. Haupt Chair in Cell Biology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. Gar Reichman Foundation was established in 1971, in memory of Gar Reichman, to fund research on leukemia and other blood-related diseases. The foundation entrusted its funds to CRI in 1988.

How do researchers apply for these?
The Institute has more than 50 years of experience administering donations that are given to support cancer research. If you would like to support the work of a specific researcher or laboratory and would like to know how CRI ensures your resources are stewarded as efficiently as possible, please contact Lynne Harmer, Director of Grants Administration, at (800) 99-CANCER, Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Eastern Time, U.S., or grants@cancerresearch.org.