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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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 |
APOBEC3 in Pediatric Leukemia: a Biomarker for Sensitivity to PARP Inhibition? | Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia / Abby Green, MD | Young Investigator Grants | 2014 | Pennsylvania |
Targeting MYCN | Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia / Yael Mossé, MD & Julie Park, MD | Crazy 8 Pilots | 2019 | Pennsylvania |
Tumor cell hybridoma vaccine for recurrent neuroblastoma and Ewing sarcoma | The Pennsylvania State University / Ken Lucas, MD | Innovation Grants | 2006 | Pennsylvania |
The role of overexpressed microRNA’s in the pediatric cancer rhabdomyosarcoma | University of Pennsylvania / Frederic Barr, MD, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2007 | Pennsylvania |
BH3 Profiling to define therapy resistance classes in neuroblastoma | Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia / Michael Hogarty, MD | Innovation Grants | 2011 | Pennsylvania |
Modeling Juvenile Myelomonocytic Leukemia with Patient-Derived Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells | Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia / Mitchell Weiss, M.D., Ph.D. | Innovation Grants | 2014 | Pennsylvania |
GPC2 CAR T Cell Targeted Delivery of BiKEs in High-Risk Neuroblastoma | Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia / Guillem Pascual-Pasto, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2020 | Pennsylvania |
Defining the Cell Surface Landscape of Diagnostic and Relapsed Neuroblastoma: Immunotherapeutic Target Identification | Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia / Sharon Diskin, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2017 | Pennsylvania |
Pedi-PRESTO: Pediatric Patient-Reported Symptom Tracking in Oncology | Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia / Allison Barz Leahy, MD | Young Investigator Grants | 2018 | Pennsylvania |