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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DFMO-based combination therapy for the treatment of advanced stage neuroblastoma. | Cancer Research Center of Hawaii / Dana-Lynn Koomoa | Young Investigator Grants | 2009 | Hawaii |
| Expanding access to new agents for children with refractory cancers: the experimental therapeutics program at Children's Hospital of Colorado. | Children’s Hospital Colorado / Lia Gore, MD | Phase I/II Infrastructure Grants | 2009 | Colorado |
| BH3 profiling to define therapy resistance classes in neuroblastoma. | Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia / Michael Hogarty | Innovation Grants | 2009 | Pennsylvania |
| Modeling anaplastic medulloblastoma using cerebellar stem cells | Duke University / Robert Wechsler-Reya, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2009 | North Carolina |
| Blockade of Mycn in neuroblastoma | University of California San Francisco / William Weiss | Innovation Grants | 2008 | California |
| The Therapy-Related Symptom Checklist for Children (TRSC-C): Systematic Monitoring of Symptoms to Improve Oncology Interventions. | Kansas Medical Center Research Institute, Inc. / Phoebe Williams | Nurse Researcher Grants | 2008 | Kansas |
| Evaluation of the Prevalence of Diaper Dermatitis in Pediatric Leukemia. | Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia / Beth Storey | Nurse Researcher Grants | 2008 | Pennsylvania |
| Untangling the Matrix in Medulloblastoma | St. Christopher's Hospital for Children / Duncan Stearns, MD | Young Investigator Grants | 2008 | Ohio |
| Genomic Alterations in Medulloblastoma | Children’s Hospital Los Angeles / Shahab Asgharzadeh, MD | Young Investigator Grants | 2008 | California |
| Reciprocal interactions between tumor killer dendritic cells and tumor-induced regulatory T lymphocytes | University of Arizona / Nicolas Larmonier, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2008 | Arizona |