Our mission is to work collaboratively to ensure that today's best science becomes tomorrow's affordable medicine. Through its portfolio of projects, the Terry Fox Research Institute supports translational cancer research. This type of research requires organized, focused teams of researchers with a wide range of expertise to systematically achieve milestone-driven goals as quickly as possible.

Our projects bring researchers from across Canada to work seamlessly together to generate the evidence needed by cancer organizations to apply new knowledge to improve health outcomes in prevention, early detection and treatment of cancer patients.

Several sections of our site are refreshed to bring you new information about TFRI and our work in translational cancer research.

In About TFRI you’ll find our Mission and Vision, our Current Partners and our Headquarters Staff.

Within our Programs section, our two Translational Cancer Research Programs are described and we have Project Summaries of TFRI investments this past year in research on tumour-site specific cancers, for example: lung, prostate, breast, colon, and ovarian.

Under Foundation you’ll find information about other cancer research funded by our founder, the Terry Fox Foundation.