for cancer research. Between 1957 and 1967, the annual budget of the National Cancer Institute, the government's primary funder of cancer research, jumped from $48 million to $176 million. Dana–Farber Cancer Institute In 1974, Farber's CCRF was renamed the Sidney Farber Cancer Center, and again in 1976 to the Sidney Farber Cancer Institute. Long-term financial support by industrialist Charles A. Dana and his foundation was acknowledged by the building of the Charles A. Dana Building in 1978 and the establishment of the Institute's present name of the Dana–Farber Cancer Institute in 1983. Personal life Farber married Norma Farber (formerly Holzman) in 1928, a poet, author of children's books, and classical soprano. On March 30, 1973, at the age of 69, Sidney Farber died from cardiac arrest while working in his office. Upon his death he was survived by his widow, four children, and three grandchildren. See also Cancer (2015 PBS film) Farber disease History of cancer History of cancer chemotherapy The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer References External links Dana–Farber Cancer Institute Boston Children's Hospital Dana-Farber/Boston Children's Cancer and Blood Disorders Center American Cancer Society Cancer researchers American pathologists American pediatricians American oncologists Jewish physicians Jewish American scientists Jewish American philanthropists Harvard Medical School alumni University at Buffalo alumni 1903 births 1973 deaths Physicians from Buffalo, New York Chemotherapy Recipients of the Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award Philanthropists from New York (state) Scientists from New York (state) 20th-century American philanthropists 20th-century American physicians 20th-century American Jews