ALSF Childhood Cancer Research Grants
With your support, we have been able to fund outstanding research, leading toward cures and improved quality of life for children with cancer. Browse through more than 1,500 funded projects below.
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ALSF Funded Research Projects
Project Title | Institution / Principal Investigator(s) | Grant Type | Year | State |
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Histone Modification and Hmgn1 Overexpression as Drivers of B-ALL with Polysomy 21 | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute / Andrew Lane, MD, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2013 | Massachusetts |
Bcl2-Family Inhibitors in Neuroblastoma: Mechanism of Action, Therapy Resistance, and Development of Biomarkers | Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia / Claudia Zapata, MD | Young Investigator Grants | 2019 | Pennsylvania |
Investigating Racial Disparities in Pediatric Acute Leukemia | University of California San Francisco / Lena Winestone, MD | Young Investigator Grants | 2016 | California |
Targeting the Mechanism of Differentiation Arrest in a Novel Model of Acute Leukemia | Massachusetts General Hospital / David Sykes | Young Investigator Grants | 2011 | Massachusetts |
Elucidating the Roles of Aneuploidy in Down Syndrome-Associated Leukemia | Boston Children’s Hospital / Chun-Chin Chen, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2023 | Massachusetts |
MTG-16 Regulation by Phosphorylation | Vanderbilt University Medical Center / Michael Engel, MD, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2006 | Tennessee |
Immunotherapy Of Neuroblastoma With Natural Killer T Cells Engineered To Target O-acetyl-GD2 | Baylor College of Medicine / Andras Heczey, MD | Young Investigator Grants | 2014 | Texas |
Defining the Mechanism by which LIN28B acts as an Oncogene in Neuroblastoma | Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia / Robert Schnepp, MD, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2013 | Pennsylvania |
Therapeutic Targeting of Childhood Leukemia by Pharmacological Inhibition of Proteolytic Cleavage of MLL1 | Northwestern University (Illinois) / Zibo Zhao, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2018 | Illinois |
The Role of LIN28B-let-7-PBK Axis on the Growth and Metastasis of Group 3 Medulloblastoma | Emory University / Shubin Shahab, MD/PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2021 | Georgia |