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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Creating an Infrastructure for Collaborative Clinical Research and Publication of Consensus Guidelines for RUNX1 Familial Platelet Disorder | The Cleveland Clinic Foundation / Brittany Stewart, PhD | RUNX1 Early Career Investigator Grants | 2023 | Ohio |
| Circumventing Pediatric Solid Tumor Microenvironment Resistance by Combinatorial CAR NK and Immunomodulating Therapy | New York Medical College / Mitchell Cairo, MD | Reach Grants | 2023 | New York |
| Feasibility Study of Dual Inhibition of MDM2 and Tubulin in Treatment of AML | Emory University / Muxiang Zhou, MD | Reach Grants | 2023 | Georgia |
| Epigenetic therapies to concurrently target DIPG tumor cells and harness the immune system | The Regents of the University of Michigan / Sriram Venneti, MD/PhD | R Accelerated Award Grants | 2022 | Michigan |
| Mechanistic and Therapeutic Development of ATM as a Tumor Cell Selective Target for Radiosensitization in H3K27M DMG | The Regents of the University of Michigan / Meredith Morgan, PhD & Daniel Wahl, MD/PhD | Reach Grants | 2022 | Michigan |
| Developing Novel Transcription Factor PROTACs to Disrupt the HMGA1 Epigenome in Relapsed Leukemia | The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine / Linda Resar, MD and Jian Jin, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2022 | Maryland |
| Molecular circuitry of fibrolamellar carcinoma | Massachusetts General Hospital / Nabeel Bardeesy, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2022 | Massachusetts |
| Targeted nanoparticle-mediated “cold”-to-“hot” reprogramming of the tumor microenvironment of high-risk neuroblastoma | University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School / Prabhani Atukorale, PhD & Jason Shohet, MD, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2022 | Massachusetts |
| Isoform-specific TNC-redirected T cell Therapy for DIPG | St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital / Stephen Gottschalk, MD and Giedre Krenciute, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2022 | Tennessee |
| Using Chemical Genetics to Define the Precise Role of RUNX1 in Transcription and Beyond | Albert Einstein College of Medicine / Kristy Stengel | RUNX1 Early Career Investigator Grants | 2022 | New York |