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 1,000 funded projects below.
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ALSF Funded Research Projects
| Project Title |
Institution / Principal Investigator(s) |
Grant Type | Year | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Selective Epigenetic Regulation of Notch1 in T-cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia | University of Michigan / Mark Yat-Fung Chiang, MD/PhD | Innovation Grants | 2016 | Michigan |
| Mechanisms of Oncogenic Transformation by TLX1/HOX11 | University of Michigan / Mark Chiang | Young Investigator Grants | 2011 | Michigan |
| Therapeutic Targeting of the Disrupted Metabolic State in DIPG | University of Michigan / Costas Lyssiotis, PhD & Sriram Venneti, MD/PhD | Innovation Grants | 2019 | Michigan |
| Targeting Glutamine Addiction in Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Gliomas (DIPGs) | University of Michigan / Sriram Venneti, MD/PhD | Innovation Grants | 2018 | Michigan |
| Role of PHF6 Mutations in Germline RUNX1 Deficiency Associated Hematopoietic Disorders | Boston Children's Hospital / Serine Avagyan, MD/PhD | RUNX1 Early Career Investigator Grants | 2021 | Massachusetts |
| Targeting the Rac GTPase Pathway to Sabotage RAS Signaling in RAS-mutated Leukemia | Boston Children's Hospital / Sara Canovas Nunes, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2020 | Massachusetts |
| Barcoding Pediatric Leukemia for Therapeutic Purposes | Boston Children's Hospital / Leonard Zon, MD | Crazy 8 Awards | 2020 | Massachusetts |
| Choline Kinase and Alkylating Agent Resistance in Refractory Childhood Leukemias | Boston Children's Hospital / Alejandro Gutierrez, MD | Innovation Grants | 2021 | Massachusetts |
| Pharmacologic Enhancement of Residual Wild Type RUNX1 Protein Activity in FPD/AML | Boston Children's Hospital / Alan Cantor, MD, PhD | Familial RUNX1 Research Grants | 2016 | Massachusetts |
| Modeling RUNX1-Associated Clonal Hematopoietic Disorders in Zebrafish | Boston Children's Hospital / Leonard Zon, MD | Familial RUNX1 Research Grants | 2016 | Massachusetts |