ICRF

The Israel Cancer Research Fund (ICRF) a cancer research fund founded in 1975 by a group of American and Canadian physicians, scientists, and laypeople. The ICRF was founded to prevent the permanent loss of Israel's cancer researchers to foreign universities due to the lack of funding in Israel for newly minted Ph. D.s, post-doctoral fellows and accomplished young scientists (a phenomenon known to many as Israel's "brain drain"). With chapters in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Toronto, Montreal, and Jerusalem, ICRF annually sponsors a grant review process conducted by an expert panel of U.S. and Canadian scientists and oncologists and modeled on the NIH grant-making process.