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 STAT3 drug development for childhood osteosarcoma therapy using drug repositioning | Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital / Jiayuh Lin, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2012 | Ohio |
| Developing Immune-modulatory Strategies Against Primary and Metastatic Tumors in the Central Nervous System | Case Western Reserve University / Alex Huang, MD, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2012 | Ohio |
| Childhood Cancer Survivor Utilization and Barriers to Primary Care Providers | Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital / Micah Skeens, PNP | Nurse Researcher Grants | 2012 | Ohio |
| In-UTR mutations in neuroblastoma: Functional consequences and therapeutic implications | Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia / Andrei Thomas-Tikhonenko, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2012 | Pennsylvania |
| Assessing the Relationship Between Physical Activity, Fatigue and Health Related Quality of Life in Children Receiving Cancer Treatment | Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia / Pattianne Belfield, PNP, CRNP | Nurse Researcher Grants | 2012 | Pennsylvania |
| Role of Myosin VI in Pediatric Glioma Proliferation and Invasion | University of Pennsylvania / Monalisa Mukherjea | Young Investigator Grants | 2012 | Pennsylvania |
| Development of Targeted Therapies in High Risk Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia | Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia / Sarah Tasian | Young Investigator Grants | 2012 | Pennsylvania |
| A novel mouse model of rhabdomyosarcoma | Vanderbilt University Medical Center / Chin Chiang, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2012 | Tennessee |
| Screening for New Rhabdomyosaroma Pathogenesis Genes in a Drosophila Model | University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center / Kathleen Galindo | Young Investigator Grants | 2012 | 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 |