Gov. Rick Perry announced at 1 p.m. today in Temple that he was giving Scott & White Cancer Research Institute $7.5 million to help accelerate research to find a cure for cancer.

Dr. Arthur Frankel, director of Hematology/Oncology, and Dr. Alfred B. Knight, CEO and president, accepted the gift on behalf of Scott & White.

Frankel said the money would be used for new labs and a manufacturing facility that would produce molecular compounds. The compounds could expand cancer research into how to cure a dozen additional types of cancer.