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 1,000 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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Bad Influence: EWS/FLI Alters LSD1 and NuRD Interactions to Enforce Oncogenic Function in Ewing’s | Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital / Emily Theisen, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2016 | Ohio |
Mechanisms of Oncogenic Transformation by TLX1/HOX11 | University of Michigan / Mark Chiang | Young Investigator Grants | 2011 | Michigan |
Ex Vivo Modeling of Medulloblastoma using Human iPSC-Derived Cerebellar Organoids | St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital / Stephanie Wu, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2023 | Tennessee |
Mechanisms of CNOT3 Tumor Suppression in T-ALL and Identification of New Drugs That Specifically Kill CNOT3-Deficient T-ALL Cells | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute / Zhaodong Li, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2014 | Massachusetts |
Development and Characterization of Novel Models of Human Osteosarcoma Development and Metastasis | University of Minnesota / Beau Webber, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2017 | Minnesota |
Using Neurofibromatosis-1 (NF1) to understand Pediatric Brain Tumor Initiation | MD Anderson Cancer Center / Yuan Pan, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2020 | Texas |
STING Pathway Activation: The Missing Link between Genomic Instability and Antitumor Immunity in Osteosarcoma | University of California San Francisco / Elizabeth Young, MD | Young Investigator Grants | 2021 | California |
Hedgehog & IGF Signaling through IRSI in Brain Development and Medulloblastoma | Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center / Anna Marie Kenney, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2006 | New York |
Elucidating the Role of Human FAN1 Nuclease in DNA Crosslink Repair | Yale School of Medicine / Timsi Rao, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2016 | Connecticut |
Identification of Alveolar Rhabdomyosarcoma "Achilles' Heel" | National Cancer Institute / Fernanda Arnaldez | Young Investigator Grants | 2011 | Maryland |