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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Investigating the impact of osteosarcoma genetic lesions on bone differentiation | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute / James Morrow, MD/PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2024 | Massachusetts |
| Collective cell invasion of fusion positive rhabdomyosarcoma regulated by PAX3-FOXO1 | Children’s Hospital Los Angeles / Jinseok Park, PhD | 'A' Award Grants | 2024 | California |
| Gene-mediated cytotoxic immunotherapy in pediatric patients with recurrent malignant brain tumors | University of Michigan / Andrea Franson, MD | 'A' Award Grants | 2024 | Michigan |
| The role of reactive gliosis in response to Immunotherapy in Diffuse Midline Glioma | University of Florida / Christina von Roemeling, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2024 | Florida |
| RAF Dimer Inhibitor Treatment in Pediatric Acute Myeloid Leukemia | The Regents of the University of California San Francisco / Kevin Shannon, MD | Innovation Grants | 2024 | California |
| Illuminating Choroid Plexus Carcinoma Vascularization in Real Time | Boston Children’s Hospital / Maria Lehtinen, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2024 | Massachusetts |
| Development of CAR-T therapy for Ewing sarcoma using zebrafish in vivo models | Children’s Hospital Los Angeles / James Amatruda, MD/PhD | Innovation Grants | 2024 | California |
| Empowering specificity of AML immunotherapies by HSC engineering | Aflac Cancer Center and Blood Disorders Service of Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta / Pietro Genovese | Catalyst Grants | 2023 | Georgia |
| Targeting Oncogenic N-MYC Complexes in High-Risk Neuroblastoma | The Regents of the University of California San Francisco / Bo Qiu, MD/PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2023 | California |
| Immunoglobulin High-Throughput Sequencing for Refining Risk Stratification in Infant B-ALL | University of Rochester / Carol Fries Simpson, MD | Reach Grants | 2023 | New York |