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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Mediators of Metastasis in Alveolar Rhabdomyosarcoma. | University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio / Koichi Nishijo, MD, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2006 | Texas |
Investigation of Oncogenic Long Non-coding RNAs in Ewing sarcoma | Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford University School of Medicine / Siu Ping Ngok, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2014 | California |
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 |
Development of An Innovative Treatment Strategy for Neuroblastoma and Other Pediatric Tumors: A Novel Phospholipid Ester Analogue and its Multifunctional Cancer-targeting Nanoconstruct | University of Wisconsin - Madison / Mario Otto | Young Investigator Grants | 2012 | Wisconsin |
Characterization and Targeting of p53 Ubiquitination in Neuroblastoma. | Baylor College of Medicine / Eveline Barbieri, MD, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2008 | Texas |
The Role of MiRNA Impairment in Wilms' Tumor Formation | University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas / Kenneth Chen, MD | Young Investigator Grants | 2016 | Texas |
Genetic Profiling and Experimental Modeling of High-risk Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia | St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital / Kathryn Roberts, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2013 | Tennessee |
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 |
Modeling H3 G34R and BCOR-Altered Glioma Pathogenesis Using Neural Stem Cells | The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine / Satoshi Nakata, MD/PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2019 | Maryland |
Identification and Characterization of an Epigenetic Program that Maintains the Self-Renewal of MLL Myeloid Leukemia Stem Cells | Stanford University / Hon-Kit Wong | Young Investigator Grants | 2010 | California |