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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Factors Influencing the Decision to Provide General Anesthesia or Moderate Sedation for Treatment Related Procedures in Children with Cancer | Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia / Elizabeth Ely, PhD, RN | Nurse Researcher Grants | 2007 | Pennsylvania |
| Exploring the impact of a teen weekend on the quality of life of the adolescent with cancer: A qualitative, case/control study. | The Children’s Mercy Hospital / Kristin Stegenga, PhD, RN | Nurse Researcher Grants | 2007 | Missouri |
| 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 |
| The Meaning of Adolescents' Eating Experiences during Bone Marrow Transplant Recovery. | Baylor College of Medicine / Cheryl Rodgers, PhD, RN | Nurse Researcher Grants | 2007 | Texas |
| Testing a Hospital Sleep Hygiene Intervention | St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital / Belinda Mandrell, PhD, RN | Nurse Researcher Grants | 2007 | Tennessee |
| Pain and Symptom Experiences in Children with Cancer | University of California, Los Angeles / Eufemia Jacob, PhD, RN | Nurse Researcher Grants | 2007 | California |
| Pediatric Oncology Investigational Therapeutics. | Doernbecher Children’s Hospital Foundation / Linda Stork, MD | Phase I/II Infrastructure Grants | 2007 | Oregon |
| Pediatric Oncology Clinical Research Infrastructure | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute / Lisa Diller, MD | Phase I/II Infrastructure Grants | 2007 | Massachusetts |
| Advancing Program Development and Support for the Pediatric Experimental Therapeutics Program at The Children's Hospital, Denver | Children’s Hospital Colorado / Lia Gore, MD | Phase I/II Infrastructure Grants | 2007 | Colorado |
| 131-I-MIBG and Targeted Therapy for Neuroblastoma: Infrastructure Proposal. | University of California San Francisco / Katherine Matthay, MD | Phase I/II Infrastructure Grants | 2007 | California |
| TrkB Signaling in the Genesis of Murine Neuroblastoma | University of Vermont / Rae Nishi, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2007 | Vermont |
| Establishing surrogate markers of angiogenesis in pediatric oncology phase I and II clinical trials: A Children’s Oncology Group study | Hospital for Sick Children / Sylvain Baruchel, MD | Innovation Grants | 2007 | Ontario |
| The role of overexpressed microRNA’s in the pediatric cancer rhabdomyosarcoma | University of Pennsylvania / Frederic Barr, MD, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2007 | Pennsylvania |
| Rac in p190-BCR-ABL0Induced Leukemia. | Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center / Jose Cancelas, MD, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2007 | Ohio |
| Adoptive immunotherapy using clinical-grade T cells. | University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center / Laurence Cooper, MD, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2007 | Texas |
| The Role of PASG in Mediating Epigenetic Change and Outcome in AML. | The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine / Jason Farrar, MD | Young Investigator Grants | 2007 | Maryland |
| E2A translocations in pediatric leukemia: developing new therapeutic targets | Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia / Bruce Fischer, MD | Young Investigator Grants | 2007 | Pennsylvania |
| Mechanisms of regulation of the PI#K/AKT pathway downstream of NOTCH1 in T-ALL. | Columbia University / Teresa Palomero, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2007 | New York |
| DNA methylation in medulloblastoma | University of Colorado Denver / Rajeev Vibhakar, MD, PhD, MPH | Young Investigator Grants | 2007 | Colorado |
| Resistance to anti-angiogenic therapy in pediatric solid tumors. | Feinstein Institute for Medical Research - North Shore / Samuel Soffer, MD | Young Investigator Grants | 2007 | New York |
| The Role of Inhibition of Apoptosis by C/EBPalpha and C/EBPalpha oncoproteins in AML. | The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine / Ido Paz-Priel, MD | Young Investigator Grants | 2007 | Maryland |
| Developing an accurate genetic model for rhabdomyosarcoma therapy | Children’s Research Institute / Dawn Chandler, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2007 | District of Columbia |
| The Identification of Neuroblastoma Cancer Stem Cells. | Stanford University / Robert Cho | Young Investigator Grants | 2007 | California |
| Generation of a novel oncolytic virus for treatment of pediatric brain tumors. | The Ohio State University / Balveen Kaur, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2007 | Ohio |
| Immunotherapy for Osteosarcoma and Ewing sarcoma | Baylor College of Medicine / Nabil Ahmed, MD, MSc | Young Investigator Grants | 2007 | Texas |
| An Exploration of the Medulloblastoma and Glioblastoma Genomes: A Critical Analysis of Candidate Cancer Genes as Potential Molecular Targets for Diagnostics and Therapeutics | The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine / Will Parsons, MD, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2007 | Maryland |
| 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 |