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The New National Cancer Institute adopts a research policy based on the Rockefeller Foundation's guidelines.

Date: 1938

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The institute is the first federal agency to subsidize investigator-initiated research at private and public universities. This furthers the shift of research away from being driven by community-based processes and interests.

The field of cancer research will be shaped by this organization for generations to come.