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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Targeting MYCN | Children's Hospital of Philadelphia / Yael Mossé, MD & Julie Park, MD | Crazy 8 Pilots | 2019 | Pennsylvania |
| Synergistic Activity of Anti-GD2 Antibody and CD47-Blockade for Immunotherapy of Neuroblastoma and Osteosarcoma | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University / Robbie Majzner, MD | 'A' Award Grants | 2019 | California |
| Pediatric Osteosarcoma: Identifying the elusive molecular signature and its relationship to this disease | St. Jude Children's Research Hospital / Linda Hendershot, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2019 | Tennessee |
| Using Neurofibromatosis-1 (NF1) to understand Pediatric Brain Tumor Initiation | Stanford University School of Medicine / Yuan Pan, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2020 | California |
| 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 |
| Modeling familial platelet disorder associated RUNX1 mutations in mice | University of Massachusetts Medical School / Lucio Castilla, PhD | Familial RUNX1 Research Grants | 2020 | Massachusetts |
| 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 |
| Drugging MYCN | Children's Hospital of Philadelphia / Yael Mossé, MD | Crazy 8 Awards | 2020 | Pennsylvania |
| Tracking Ewing Sarcoma Origin by Developmental and Trans-species Genomics | St. Anna Children´s Cancer Research Institute / Heinrich Kovar, PhD | Crazy 8 Awards | 2020 | |
| Small Molecule Degraders for Targeting Transcription Factor Drivers of Childhood Cancers | St. Jude Children's Research Hospital / Charles G. Mullighan, MBBS(Hons), MSc, MD, FRACP, FRCPA | Crazy 8 Awards | 2020 | Tennessee |