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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dual PTK7/GD2 Gamma Delta CAR T Cell Therapy for Neuroblastoma | Emory University / Kelly Goldsmith, MD & H. Trent Spencer, PhD & Chris B. Doering, PhD | Reach Grants | 2021 | Georgia |
| Circulating Tumor Biomarkers: New Paradigms for Management of Neuroblastoma | University of Chicago / Mark Applebaum, PhD | 'A' Award Grants | 2021 | Illinois |
| Stapled Peptide PROTAC: A 3-in-1 Treatment for Pediatric Solid Tumors | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute / Loren Walensky, MD/PhD | Reach Grants | 2021 | Massachusetts |
| Optimization of Drug Efflux and Brain Clearance to Improve CED of Targeted Therapy to H3K27M DMG | Mayo Clinic / David Daniels, MD/PhD | Reach Grants | 2021 | Minnesota |
| A leukemia organoid platform for dissection and targeting of tumor-niche interactions | Columbia Institute for Cancer Genetics / Adolfo Ferrando, MD/PhD | Innovation Grants | 2021 | New York |
| Turning Killers into THINKers: TME Hostility-Impervious NK Cells for Treating Neuroblastoma and Sarcoma | Baylor College of Medicine / Robin Parihar, MD/PhD | 'A' Award Grants | 2021 | Texas |
| IND-Enabling Studies for WNTinib, a Novel Selective Therapeutic for CTNNB1 Mutant Hepatoblastomas | Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai / Ernesto Guccione, PhD & Josep Llovet, MD & Arvin Dar, PhD | Reach Grants | 2021 | New York |
| Exploiting the Potential of Bromodomain Inhibitors in Ewing Sarcoma | Seattle Children’s Hospital / Shireen Ganapathi, MD | Young Investigator Grants | 2021 | Washington |
| Role of PHF6 Mutations in Germline RUNX1 Deficiency Associated Hematopoietic Disorders | The Regents of the University of California San Francisco / Serine Avagyan, MD/PhD | RUNX1 Early Career Investigator Grants | 2021 | California |
| The Role of LIN28B-let-7-PBK Axis on the Growth and Metastasis of Group 3 Medulloblastoma | Emory University / Shubin Shahab, MD/PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2021 | Georgia |