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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pax3-FKHR targets that enable bypass of cellular senescence in rhabdomyosarcoma. | Duke University Medical Center / Corinne Mary Linardic, MD, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2006 | North Carolina |
| Molecular characterization of OTX2 as a novel therapeutic target. | Duke University Medical Center / Hai Yan, MD | Innovation Grants | 2006 | North Carolina |
| Targeting Pediatric Brainstem Glioma with Oncolytic Polioviruses. | Duke University Medical Center / Matthias Gromeier, MD | Innovation Grants | 2006 | North Carolina |
| Expanding Access to New Agents for Cancer Treatment. | Children’s Hospital Colorado / Lia Gore, MD | Phase I/II Infrastructure Grants | 2006 | Colorado |
| Generation of a novel oncolytic virus for treatment of pediatric brain tumors. | The Ohio State University / Balveen Kaur, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2007 | Ohio |
| Saving Lives, Saving Neurons, the Head Start Consortium for Young Children with Malignant Central Nervous System Tumors | Children’s Hospital Los Angeles / Jonathan Finlay, MD | Phase I/II Infrastructure Grants | 2007 | California |
| Pediatric Oncology Clinical Research Infrastructure | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute / Lisa Diller, MD | Phase I/II Infrastructure Grants | 2007 | Massachusetts |
| A Comparison of Parent and Clinician Reported Toxicities in Standard Radiation Versus Proton Beam Radiation in Children with Posterior Fossa Tumors. | Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia / Rosanna Pollack, RN & Cynthia Schmus, RN | Nurse Researcher Grants | 2007 | Pennsylvania |
| Palliative Care and End-of-Life Communication Experiences of Pediatric Oncology Nurses. | Goldfarb School of Nursing at Barnes Jewish College of Nursing / Verna Hendricks-Ferguson, PhD | Nurse Researcher Grants | 2007 | Missouri |
| Pain and Symptom Experiences in Children with Cancer | University of California, Los Angeles / Eufemia Jacob, PhD, RN | Nurse Researcher Grants | 2007 | California |