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.
Use the search tool to refine your results. You can also click on a heading to sort by project title, institution name, or year the grant was awarded. Click on the project title to read more information.
You can learn about ALSF's grant review process here.
ALSF Funded Research Projects
Project Title | Institution / Principal Investigator(s) | Grant Type | Year | State |
---|---|---|---|---|
Novel Therapy of Heterogeneous B-cell Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia by Targeting Convergent Oncogenic Mediators STATs | University of Alberta / Hasan Uludag, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2019 | Alberta |
Role of the macro lncRNA KCNQ1OT1 in embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma tumorigenesis | Duke University / Corinne Linardic, MD/PhD | Innovation Grants | 2019 | North Carolina |
Investigating phase separated condensates in FPD to MDS/AML progression | Broad Institute / Zuzana Tothova, MD/PhD | RUNX1 Early Career Investigator Grants | 2019 | Massachusetts |
Modeling the Initiation and Progression of Down Syndrome Associated Leukemia Using CRISPR/Cas9 at Single Cell Resolution | Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai / Elvin Wagenblast, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2020 | New York |
Targeting the Rac GTPase Pathway to Sabotage RAS Signaling in RAS-mutated Leukemia | Boston Children’s Hospital / Sara Canovas Nunes, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2020 | Massachusetts |
Tracking Ewing Sarcoma Origin by Developmental and Trans-species Genomics | St. Anna Children’s Cancer Research Institute / Heinrich Kovar, PhD | Crazy 8 Awards | 2020 | |
Modeling familial platelet disorder associated RUNX1 mutations in mice | University of Massachusetts Medical School / Lucio Castilla, PhD | RARE Grant Program (Research Accelerating RUNX1 Exploration) | 2020 | Massachusetts |
Using Neurofibromatosis-1 (NF1) to understand Pediatric Brain Tumor Initiation | MD Anderson Cancer Center / Yuan Pan, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2020 | Texas |
Novel Synergistic Targets for Combination Therapy in Philadelphia Chromosome-like Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia | Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia / Yang Ding, MD | Young Investigator Grants | 2020 | Pennsylvania |
Genetic Susceptibility to Ototoxicity in Pediatric Germ Cell Tumor Survivors | University of Minnesota / Jenny Poynter, MPH, PhD | Epidemiology Grants | 2020 | Minnesota |