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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Interrogating the Enhancer Landscapes of Ependymoma to Inform Novel Therapies | Baylor College of Medicine / Stephen Mack, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2016 | Texas |
| Building a Texas-based center for neuroblastoma clinical research. | Baylor College of Medicine / Heidi Russell, MD | Phase I/II Infrastructure Grants | 2006 | Texas |
| Mediators of Metastasis in Alveolar Rhabdomyosarcoma. | University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio / Koichi Nishijo, MD, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2006 | Texas |
| 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 MiRNA Impairment in Wilms' Tumor Formation | University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas / Kenneth Chen, MD | Young Investigator Grants | 2016 | Texas |
| V alpha-invariant NKT cells as a novel platform for cancer immunotherapy | Baylor College of Medicine / Leonid Metelitsa, MD, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2012 | Texas |
| Parallel sequencing to identify the causes of childhood cancer | Baylor College of Medicine / Sharon Plon | Innovation Grants | 2008 | Texas |
| Systematic screening of receptor pairs combinations for improving solid tumor cancer immunotherapy | Texas Children’s Cancer Center / Xavier Rios, MD/PhD | 'A' Award Grants | 2024 | Texas |
| Function and Dependency of NFkB Activity in ZFTA-RELA Fusion Ependymoma | Baylor College of Medicine / Austin Stuckert, MD | Young Investigator Grants | 2021 | Texas |
| Zebrafish Modeling of PAX3-FOXO1 Driven Rhabdomyosarcoma | University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center / Genevieve Kendall, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2015 | Texas |