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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Utilizing chromatin directed inhibitors to regulate gene expression in Ewing sarcoma for therapeutic benefit | University of North Carolina / Justin Sperlazza, MD/PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2024 | North Carolina |
| Direct targeting of oncoprotein assembly using mimetic peptide interference | Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center / Alex Kentsis, MD/PhD | Innovation Grants | 2024 | New York |
| Therapeutic targeting of clonal hematopoiesis in RUNX1 mutant FPDMM | University of Pennsylvania / Robert Bowman, Ph.D. | RARE Grant Program (Research Accelerating RUNX1 Exploration) | 2024 | Pennsylvania |
| Vaccine-boosted CAR T cell therapy for high risk neuroblastoma | Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia / Timothy Spear, MD/PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2024 | Pennsylvania |
| Capitalizing on functional genomics with targeted protein degradation in neuroblastoma | St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital / Ian Delahunty, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2024 | Tennessee |
| Modifying CAR T cell epigenetic programs to improve therapy against aggressive pediatric brain tumors | St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital / Meghan Ward, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2024 | Tennessee |
| The role of tissue kallikrein 1 in hematopoietic stem cell transplant-associated thrombotic microangiopathy | Baylor College of Medicine / Sarah Sartain, MD | Innovation Grants | 2024 | Texas |
| MYCN-induced molecular clock disruption and metabolic rewiring drive neuroblastoma | Baylor College of Medicine / Lingzhi Li, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2024 | Texas |
| Development of allogeneic off-the-shelf gamma delta T cell product for pediatric AML | Baylor College of Medicine / Norihiro Watanabe, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2024 | Texas |