# Ludwig Cancer Research

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## TL;DR

The cancer research institute that shipping magnate Daniel K. Ludwig endowed in 1971 with nearly all of his international holdings; it has spent more than $1.8 billion of its own money on cancer science.

## Summary

Founded in 1971, the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research is an international not-for-profit that funds and runs its own laboratories rather than making grants from donations. Its own account states that it has invested more than $1.8 billion of its resources in cancer research and holds an endowment valued at $1.5 billion. In 2006 the Ludwig gift also created Ludwig Centers and professorships at six leading US institutions, each with more than $2 million a year in perpetuity. Ludwig scientists worked on the biology that became checkpoint immunotherapy, on tumour antigens and on cancer genomics. Headquartered in New York with historic roots in Zurich.

## Fields

- Kind: Institution
- Last checked: 2026-09-10
- Also known as: Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research; LICR
- City: New York, US
- Type: research-institute
- Website: https://www.ludwigcancerresearch.org

## Sources

- About Ludwig Cancer Research: https://www.ludwigcancerresearch.org/about/

## Connected records

- fronts: [Immunotherapy](https://onco.cc/fronts/immunotherapy/)
- technologies: [Comprehensive genomic profiling](https://onco.cc/technologies/cgp/), [Immune checkpoint inhibitors](https://onco.cc/technologies/checkpoint-inhibitor/)
- institutions: [David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT](https://onco.cc/institutions/mit-koch/), [Johns Hopkins Hospital / Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center](https://onco.cc/institutions/johns-hopkins/), [Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center](https://onco.cc/institutions/mskcc/), [Stanford Health Care / Stanford Cancer Institute](https://onco.cc/institutions/stanford/), [University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center](https://onco.cc/institutions/uchicago-cancer/)
- people: [Daniel K. Ludwig](https://onco.cc/people/daniel-ludwig/)
- bottlenecks: [Funding follows fashion, not burden](https://onco.cc/bottlenecks/b-funding-allocation/), [The valley of death between lab and product](https://onco.cc/bottlenecks/b-translational-valley/)

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