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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Improving homing and activity of CAR T cells in pediatric sarcomas | University of Colorado Denver / Joselyn Cruz Cruz, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2024 | Colorado |
| Defining how unique properties of the pediatric immune system contribute to poor efficacy of checkpoint blockade in children | Stanford University / Adrienne Long, MD/PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2024 | California |
| Understanding the role of CDK8 in protein synthesis for treating MYC-driven medulloblastoma | University of Colorado Denver / Dong Wang, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2024 | Colorado |
| Collective cell invasion of fusion positive rhabdomyosarcoma regulated by PAX3-FOXO1 | Children’s Hospital Los Angeles / Jinseok Park, PhD | 'A' Award Grants | 2024 | California |
| Novel mechanisms and therapeutic targeting of chemoresistant rhabdomyosarcoma | Massachusetts General Hospital / Yueyang Wang, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2024 | Massachusetts |
| Novel Resilience Genes Required for Cerebellum Development and Medulloblastoma Survival | University of California San Francisco / Stephen Fancy, PhD, DVM | Innovation Grants | 2023 | California |
| Inducing Neuroblastoma Differentiation In Vivo | University of Alabama at Birmingham / Ankur Saxena, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2023 | Alabama |
| Identifying Ewing Sarcoma Developmental Vulnerabilities | Children’s Hospital Los Angeles / Elena Vasileva, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2023 | California |
| A Cell Morphology Landscape of Pediatric Cancer Cell Lines | University of Colorado Denver_ Anschutz Medical Campus / Gregory Way, PhD | 'A' Award Grants | 2023 | Colorado |
| CDK8 as a New Therapeutic Target in Alveolar Rhabdomyosarcoma | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute / Susu Zhang, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2023 | Massachusetts |