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 |
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Tracking Ewing Sarcoma Origin by Developmental and Trans-species Genomics | St. Anna Children’s Cancer Research Institute / Heinrich Kovar, PhD | Crazy 8 Awards | 2020 | |
Identifying Epistatic Suppressors of Oncohistone in Pediatric High-Grade Gliomas | BC Cancer (Provincial Health Services Authority) / Carol Chen, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2020 | British Columbia |
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 |
Modeling familial platelet disorder associated RUNX1 mutations in mice | University of Massachusetts Medical School / Lucio Castilla, PhD | RARE Grant Program (Research Accelerating RUNX1 Exploration) | 2020 | Massachusetts |
Barcoding Pediatric Leukemia for Therapeutic Purposes | Boston Children’s Hospital / Leonard Zon, MD | Crazy 8 Awards | 2020 | Massachusetts |
Dissecting the Role of FOXR2 in the Oncogenesis of Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute / Jessica Tsai, MD/PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2020 | Massachusetts |
Donor T-Cell DNA Methylation in GVHD and the Graft-vs-Tumor Effect after Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant | The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine / Yiouli Panayiota Ktena, MD | Young Investigator Grants | 2020 | Maryland |
Genetic Susceptibility to Ototoxicity in Pediatric Germ Cell Tumor Survivors | University of Minnesota / Jenny Poynter, MPH, PhD | Epidemiology Grants | 2020 | Minnesota |
Modeling the Initiation and Progression of Down Syndrome Associated Leukemia Using CRISPR/Cas9 at Single Cell Resolution | Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai / Elvin Wagenblast, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2020 | New York |
Assessing Clonal Fitness and Mechanisms of Clonal Evolution in FPD-MN | Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center / Wenbin Xiao, MD/PhD | RUNX1 Early Career Investigator Grants | 2020 | New York |