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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Improving Immune-Mediated Oncolytic Viral Therapy: Engineering Tumor Vaccine Elements into the Virus | Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital / Kevin Cassady, MD & Christopher Walker, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2016 | Ohio |
| Bad Influence: EWS/FLI Alters LSD1 and NuRD Interactions to Enforce Oncogenic Function in Ewing’s | Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital / Emily Theisen, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2016 | Ohio |
| CD19 Delta Ex2 Isoform as a Target for Alternative Therapies in Relapsed Pediatric B-ALL | Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia / Asen Bagashev, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2016 | Pennsylvania |
| Targeted Combination Therapy to Sensitize High-Risk Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia to Methotrexate via Restoration of Ikaros Tumor Suppression | The Pennsylvania State University / Sinisa Dovat, MD/PhD & Chunhua Song, MD/PhD | Innovation Grants | 2016 | Pennsylvania |
| Targeting Metabolism as a Therapeutic Approach for High-Risk MYCN-Driven Neuroblastoma | University of Pennsylvania / Nicole Anderson, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2016 | Pennsylvania |
| Astatine-211 Meta-Astatobenzylguanidine ([211At]MABG) Targeted Radiotherapy for Disseminated Neuroblastoma | Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia / John Maris, MD | Reach Grants | 2016 | Pennsylvania |
| Sepsis as innate immune stimulus: severe sepsis exposures and protection against relapse in children with acute leukemias | Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia / Alix Seif, MD | Epidemiology Grants | 2016 | Pennsylvania |
| Micro-environmental Regulators of Ewing sarcoma Metastasis | University of Pittsburgh / Kelly Bailey, MD/PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2016 | Pennsylvania |
| DFMO Synergy with Chemo-immunotherapy to Eradicate MYC-Driven Neuroblastoma | Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia / Michael Hogarty, MD | Reach Grants | 2016 | Pennsylvania |
| Variation in Care and Outcomes in Pediatric Acute Leukemia | Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia / Amanda DiNofia, MD | Young Investigator Grants | 2016 | Pennsylvania |