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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Characterization of the Role of Chromosome 1p Deletion in MYCN-Amplified Neuroblastoma | University of California San Francisco / Miller Huang, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2013 | California |
| 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 |
| Resistance and Develop Improved Treatments for Relapsed/refractory Pediatric ALL | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute / Elizabeth Townsend, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2016 | Massachusetts |
| Development of Novel Biomarkers for Immunotherapy in Neuroblastoma | Columbia Institute for Cancer Genetics / Shuobo Boboila, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2017 | New York |
| Understanding the Role of Translational Control in Humanized Mouse Models for Medulloblastoma | University of California San Francisco / Ozlem Aksoy, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2015 | California |
| Targeting HMGA1 in Pediatric T-cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia | The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine / Joelle Hillion, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2008 | Maryland |
| Synthetic Gene Expression Regulatory Switches (SynGERS) for Improved CAR T Cell Function in Pediatric Solid Tumors | Baylor College of Medicine / Leidy Diana Caraballo Galva, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2023 | Texas |
| Genetic Dissection of Trisomy 21-TMD Using Human Pluripotent Stem Cells | Boston Children’s Hospital / Glenn MacLean | Young Investigator Grants | 2013 | Massachusetts |
| Novel Nanoscale Phosphoproteomic Discovery of Therapeutic Targets in AML Stem Cells | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute / Leo Wang, MD, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2015 | Massachusetts |
| Role of Kindlin-3 In Natural Killer Cell Mediated Tumor Killing | Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin - Milwaukee / Nathan Schloemer, MD | Young Investigator Grants | 2016 | Wisconsin |