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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Targeting MYCN | Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia / Yael Mossé, MD & Julie Park, MD | Crazy 8 Pilots | 2019 | Pennsylvania |
| Elucidating the Role of SETD2 in Pediatric High Grade Glioma Formation | Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia / Thomas De Raedt, PhD | 'A' Award Grants | 2019 | Pennsylvania |
| Identify Novel Druggable Targets to Treat Philadelphia chromosome-like B-Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia | Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia / Wei Tong, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2019 | Pennsylvania |
| Bcl2-Family Inhibitors in Neuroblastoma: Mechanism of Action, Therapy Resistance, and Development of Biomarkers | Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia / Claudia Zapata, MD | Young Investigator Grants | 2019 | Pennsylvania |
| Single-cell Profiling of Early T-cell Precursor Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia | Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia / David Teachey, MD and Kai Tan, PhD | Single-cell Pediatric Cancer Atlas Grant | 2019 | Pennsylvania |
| Therapeutic Targets and Molecular Mechanisms in Childhood Brainstem Tumors | University Health Network - Toronto Western Research Institute / Jerome Fortin, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2019 | Ontario |
| Dissecting Pediatric Brain Tumour Progression Using Single-nuclei Sequencing | University Health Network / Trevor Pugh, PhD | Single-cell Pediatric Cancer Atlas Grant | 2019 | Ontario |
| Using Splice Switching Oligonucleotides (SSOs) to target MDM2 for rhabdomyosarcoma therapy | Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital / Dawn Chandler, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2019 | Ohio |
| Generation of CMV-specific CD19 CAR T cells Using Cytokine Capture Followed by Lentiviral Transduction and Expansion | Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital / Margaret Lamb, MD | Reach Grants | 2019 | Ohio |
| Platform development for target identification in high risk pediatric leukemias | Columbia University / Adolfo A Ferrando, MD/PhD, Charles Mullighan, MD | Crazy 8 Pilots | 2019 | New York |