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ALSF Funded Research Projects

Project Title	Institution / Principal Investigator(s)	Grant Type	Year	State
Mechanisms of CNOT3 Tumor Suppression in T-ALL and Identification of New Drugs That Specifically Kill CNOT3-Deficient T-ALL Cells	Dana-Farber Cancer Institute / Zhaodong Li, PhD	Young Investigator Grants	2014	Massachusetts
Targeting Valine-Specific Amino Acid Dependency -in T-Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia	New York University School of Medicine / Palaniraja Thandapani, PhD	Young Investigator Grants	2019	New York
Targeting Metabolism as a Therapeutic Approach for High-Risk MYCN-Driven Neuroblastoma	University of Pennsylvania / Nicole Anderson, PhD	Young Investigator Grants	2016	Pennsylvania
The Regulation of Hematopoietic Stem Cell Function by Granulocyte-Colony Stimulating Factor	Washington University / Laura Schuettpelz, MD, PhD	Young Investigator Grants	2013	Missouri
Mechanisms of Oncogenic Transformation by TLX1/HOX11	University of Michigan / Mark Chiang	Young Investigator Grants	2011	Michigan
Deciphering the Mechanisms of Medulloblastoma Treatment Resistance using Integrative Genomics	Hospital for Sick Children / Vijay Ramaswamy, MD	Young Investigator Grants	2014	Ontario
Using Neurofibromatosis-1 (NF1) to understand Pediatric Brain Tumor Initiation	MD Anderson Cancer Center / Yuan Pan, PhD	Young Investigator Grants	2020	Texas
DFMO-based combination therapy for the treatment of advanced stage neuroblastoma.	Cancer Research Center of Hawaii / Dana-Lynn Koomoa	Young Investigator Grants	2009	Hawaii
Identification and Characterization of Pathways Dysregulated by MMSET E1099K Mutation in Relapsed Pediatric Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia and Their Role in Drug Resistance	New York University School of Medicine / Joanna Pierro, DO	Young Investigator Grants	2017	New York
A Developmental Model to Characterize the Epigenetic Origins of the Retinoblastoma Tumor Initiating Cell	The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine / Jeffrey Huo, MD, PhD	Young Investigator Grants	2014	Maryland

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