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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cell Line and Xenograft Repository | Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center / Patrick Reynolds, MD/PhD | Catalyst Grants | 2014 | Texas |
| Turning Killers into THINKers: TME Hostility-Impervious NK Cells for Treating Neuroblastoma and Sarcoma | Baylor College of Medicine / Robin Parihar, MD/PhD | 'A' Award Grants | 2021 | Texas |
| In Situ CD19.CAR-T Generation Using TRIDENT System for Pediatric B Cell Malignancies | Baylor College of Medicine / Masataka Suzuki, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2023 | Texas |
| Energy Balance Strategies for Decreasing Chemotherapy-Induced Cardiotoxicity | University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center / Eugenie Kleinerman, MD | Innovation Grants | 2018 | Texas |
| Multispecific T Cells for Adoptive Immunotherapy of Pediatric High Grade Glioma (HGG) | Baylor College of Medicine / Nabil Ahmed, MD, MSc | Innovation Grants | 2013 | Texas |
| Two-pronged Cell Therapy: Engineering T Cells to Redirect Bystander T- and NK-Cells to Pediatric Cancer | Baylor College of Medicine / Stephen Gottschalk, M.D. | Innovation Grants | 2014 | Texas |
| Synthetic gene expression regulator switches (SynGERS) expressed in CAR T cells to cure children with solid tumors | Baylor College of Medicine / Andras Heczey, MD | R Accelerated Award Grants | 2023 | Texas |
| Parallel sequencing to identify the causes of childhood cancer | Baylor College of Medicine / Sharon Plon | Innovation Grants | 2008 | Texas |
| Adoptive immunotherapy using clinical-grade T cells. | University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center / Laurence Cooper, MD, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2007 | Texas |
| V alpha-invariant NKT cells as a novel platform for cancer immunotherapy | Baylor College of Medicine / Leonid Metelitsa, MD, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2012 | Texas |