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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Novel Approaches for Epigenetic Therapy for Relapsed Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia | The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine / Linda Resar, MD & Andrei Thomas-Tikhonenko, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2017 | Maryland |
| Characterization of Novel OTX2-semaphorin Gene Signaling Pathways Regulating the ‘Grow and Go’ Arms of Highly Aggressive Medulloblastomas | University of Manitoba / Tamra Werbowetski-Ogilvie, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2017 | Manitoba |
| Reversing mSWI/SNF (BAF) Complex Misassembly and Genomic Targeting in Human Synovial Sarcoma | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute / Cigall Kadoch, PhD | 'A' Award Grants | 2017 | Massachusetts |
| Understanding the Mechanisms of HOX Gene Regulation in Normal and Leukemic Hematopoietic Stem Cells to Identify New Therapies for Pediatric AML | Boston Children’s Hospital / Anne Robertson, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2017 | Massachusetts |
| Mechanisms of OTX2 Mediated Chromatin Regulation in Medulloblastoma | Massachusetts General Hospital / Miguel Rivera, MD | Innovation Grants | 2017 | Massachusetts |
| Targeting BRD9 in Sarcoma | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute / Scott Armstrong, MD/PhD | Innovation Grants | 2017 | Massachusetts |
| Novel Approaches to AML Differentiation Therapy | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute / Andrew Lane, MD/PhD | 'A' Award Grants | 2017 | Massachusetts |
| Identifying Disease Mechanisms and Therapeutic Opportunities in Pediatric Low-grade Gliomas Driven by MYB-QKI Fusions | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute / Cecile Rouleau, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2017 | Massachusetts |
| 3-D Printed Self-fitting Shape Memory Bone Grafts for Smart Pediatric Skeletal Reconstruction | University of Massachusetts Medical School / Jie Song, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2017 | Massachusetts |
| Role of N6-Methyladenosine (m6A) mRNA Modification Pathway in Neuroblastoma | Boston Children’s Hospital / Shuibin Lin, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2017 | Massachusetts |