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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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 |
Tracking Ewing Sarcoma Origin by Developmental and Trans-species Genomics | St. Anna Children’s Cancer Research Institute / Heinrich Kovar, PhD | Crazy 8 Awards | 2020 | |
Modeling familial platelet disorder associated RUNX1 mutations in mice | University of Massachusetts Medical School / Lucio Castilla, PhD | RARE Grant Program (Research Accelerating RUNX1 Exploration) | 2020 | Massachusetts |
Defining the Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Pediatric Brain Tumor Penetrance | Washington University / Nicole Brossier, MD/PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2019 | Missouri |
Norepinephrine Transporter-Targeted Pharmacotherapy of Aggressive Neuroblastoma | Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia / Michael Chorny, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2019 | Pennsylvania |
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 |
Cancer Risk and Incidence in Beckwith-Wiedemann Syndrome | Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia / Jennifer Kalish, MD/PhD | Epidemiology Grants | 2019 | Pennsylvania |
Targeting MYCN | Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia / Yael Mossé, MD & Julie Park, MD | Crazy 8 Pilots | 2019 | Pennsylvania |
Predicting and Overcoming Resistance to Immunotherapy in Pediatric High-Grade Glioma | Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago / Oren Becher, MD & Robert Wechsler-Reya, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2019 | Illinois |
A comprehensive public resource for fusion-negative sarcoma sequencing data | University of California San Francisco / Alejandro Sweet-Cordero, MD & Richard Gorlick, MD | Crazy 8 Pilots | 2019 | California |