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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Divergent Core Transcriptional Regulatory Circuitries to Highlight Context-Specific Vulnerabilities in AML | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute / Maxim Pimkin, MD/PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2018 | Massachusetts |
| Reversing the Oncogenic Roles of Misdirected Chromatin Remodeling in Synovial Sarcoma | Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford University School of Medicine / Cigall Kadoch, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2013 | California |
| The Role of LIN28B-let-7-PBK Axis on the Growth and Metastasis of Group 3 Medulloblastoma | Emory University / Shubin Shahab, MD/PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2021 | Georgia |
| Mediators of Metastasis in Alveolar Rhabdomyosarcoma. | University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio / Koichi Nishijo, MD, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2006 | Texas |
| Interrogating the Enhancer Landscapes of Ependymoma to Inform Novel Therapies | Baylor College of Medicine / Stephen Mack, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2016 | Texas |
| Pre-clinical Evaluation of LSD1 Inhibitors for the Treatment of Pediatric Ewing sarcoma: Defining the Biomarkers of Sensitivity and Mechanisms of Resistance | Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital / Kathleen Pishas, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2016 | Ohio |
| Regulation of Hematopoietic Stem Cell Engraftment by the Endothelial Cell Niche | Boston Children's Hospital / Bradley Blaser, MD, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2015 | Massachusetts |
| Pedi-PRESTO: Pediatric Patient-Reported Symptom Tracking in Oncology | Children's Hospital of Philadelphia / Allison Barz Leahy, MD | Young Investigator Grants | 2018 | Pennsylvania |
| The Role of Germline Variants in Infant Leukemogenesis | Washington University / Margaret Ferris, MD/PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2019 | Missouri |