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 |
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Transcriptome Sequencing (RNA-Seq) for Identification of Novel Markers of Disease Outcome and Therapeutic Targets in Acute Myeloid Leukemia | Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center / Fabiana Ostronoff, MD | Young Investigator Grants | 2012 | Washington |
Arginine Depletion with DFMO in High-Risk Neuroblastoma | Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia / Christina Turn, MD | Young Investigator Grants | 2023 | Pennsylvania |
Describing the Biological Impacts of Gain-of-function SAMD9 Mutations | Vanderbilt University Medical Center / Jason Schwartz, MD/PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2018 | Tennessee |
MLL Oncogene-Dependent Enhancer Reprogramming Promotes Leukemogenesis | Stanford University / Feng Pan, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2019 | California |
Deciphering the Mechanisms of Medulloblastoma Treatment Resistance using Integrative Genomics | Hospital for Sick Children / Vijay Ramaswamy, MD | Young Investigator Grants | 2014 | Ontario |
Social Determinants of Health, Hospital-level Resources, and Risk of Septic Shock in Pediatric Leukemia | Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia / Jenny Ruiz, MD | Young Investigator Grants | 2021 | Pennsylvania |
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 |
Targeting Metabolism as a Therapeutic Approach for High-Risk MYCN-Driven Neuroblastoma | University of Pennsylvania / Nicole Anderson, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2016 | Pennsylvania |
MicroRNAs 100 and 125b in Ewing sarcoma | University of Colorado Denver / Paul Jedlicka | Young Investigator Grants | 2010 | Colorado |
Ex Vivo Modeling of Medulloblastoma using Human iPSC-Derived Cerebellar Organoids | St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital / Stephanie Wu, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2023 | Tennessee |