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 |
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Targeting Secondary Mutations in Juvenile Myelomonocytic Leukemia | University of California San Francisco / Elliot Stieglitz, MD | Young Investigator Grants | 2015 | California |
Characterization and Targeting of Novel Activating BRAF Mutations in Pediatric Brain Tumors | Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia / Angela Waanders, MD, MPH | Young Investigator Grants | 2010 | Pennsylvania |
Investigating Epigenetic Mechanisms of Response to Allogenic CAR T Cell Therapy | St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital / Caitlin Zebley, MD/PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2021 | Tennessee |
Targeting polycomb-mediated epigenetic silencing in T cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia | Vanderbilt University Medical Center / Emmanuel Volanakis | Young Investigator Grants | 2011 | Tennessee |
Developing Targeted Immunotherapy Against Pediatric Acute Myeloid Leukemia | Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center / Melinda Biernacki, MD | Young Investigator Grants | 2016 | Washington |
Novel Genomic Drivers in Pediatric Polyposis Syndromes | Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia / Suzanne MacFarland, MD | Young Investigator Grants | 2019 | Pennsylvania |
Using Neurofibromatosis-1 (NF1) to understand Pediatric Brain Tumor Initiation | MD Anderson Cancer Center / Yuan Pan, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2020 | Texas |
Targeting Metabolism as a Therapeutic Approach for High-Risk MYCN-Driven Neuroblastoma | University of Pennsylvania / Nicole Anderson, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2016 | Pennsylvania |
Oncogenic Hedgehog Pathway Activation by a Putative Rho GTPase-Activating Protein | Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford University School of Medicine / Jun Ni, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2013 | California |
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 |