Research facilities are structured to support the needs of the multidisciplinary research programs at Fox Chase Cancer Center. They are designed to enhance ongoing research by supplying information, reagents and technical expertise not readily available to the individual investigator. The majority of the facilities are partially supported by a Cancer Center Support Grant. The Cancer Centers Program of the NCI provides these grants to major academic and research institutions throughout the United States to sustain broad, interdisciplinary programs at institutions characterized by scientific excellence and the capability to integrate a diversity of research approaches to focus on the problem of cancer.