During the 1960s, Southern Research’s cancer research program was beginning to outgrow the organization’s available space. Seven laboratories had been erected between 1953 and 1965. Another was on its way thanks to businessman and philanthropist Harry Frueauff and the Charles A Frueauff Foundation.
The Charles A. Frueauff Foundation was a major supporter of Southern Research’s cancer program, having made possible another lab bearing the Frueauff name that opened in 1961.
The Frueauff Laboratory for Pharmacology and Toxicology was constructed on Southern Research’s Birmingham campus in 1969.