Auckland Cancer Society Research Centre Oral History Project recordings.

The Auckland Cancer Society Research Centre was founded in 1956 as the Cancer Research Laboratory by the Cancer Society Auckland, through funds raised from the Auckland public. In 1998 it became a department of the Faculty of Medical Sciences of the University of Auckland, and is now jointly managed by the University and the Cancer Society. Since its inception, the Centre has published nearly 1,000 papers in international scientific and medical journals, and filed more than 100 patent applications for new anti-cancer drugs. In that time, the centre has developed eight cancer drugs which have gone into clinical trial, and has the distinction of being the first laboratory in the Southern Hemisphere to discover, trial and bring an anti-cancer drug into clinical use.

The founding director was Professor Bruce Cain, and since 1981 the Centre has been led by co-directors Professor Bill Denny and Professor Bruce Baguley.