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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Discovery of Inhibitors of MLL Fusion Proteins as Targeted Therapies for Pediatric Acute Leukemia | Nemours Center for Childhood Cancer Research / Andrew Napper | Innovation Grants | 2010 | Delaware |
| Immunotherapeutic Targeting of Stem Cells in Pediatric Brain Tumors | Harbor - UCLA Medical Center / Joseph Lasky | Young Investigator Grants | 2008 | California |
| Palliative Care and End-of-Life Communication Experiences of Pediatric Oncology Nurses. | Goldfarb School of Nursing at Barnes Jewish College of Nursing / Verna Hendricks-Ferguson, PhD | Nurse Researcher Grants | 2007 | Missouri |
| Modeling RUNX1-Associated Clonal Hematopoietic Disorders in Zebrafish | Boston Children’s Hospital / Leonard Zon, MD | RARE Grant Program (Research Accelerating RUNX1 Exploration) | 2016 | Massachusetts |
| Pharmacologic Enhancement of Residual Wild Type RUNX1 Protein Activity in FPD/AML | Boston Children’s Hospital / Alan Cantor, MD, PhD | RARE Grant Program (Research Accelerating RUNX1 Exploration) | 2016 | Massachusetts |
| Transcriptional Effectors of Activated RAS Signaling in Juvenile Myelomonocytic Leukemia | Boston Children’s Hospital / Alan Cantor, MD, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2015 | Massachusetts |
| Regulation of Hematopoietic Stem Cell Engraftment by the Endothelial Cell Niche | Boston Children’s Hospital / Bradley Blaser, MD, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2015 | Massachusetts |
| Genetic Dissection of Trisomy 21-TMD Using Human Pluripotent Stem Cells | Boston Children’s Hospital / Glenn MacLean | Young Investigator Grants | 2013 | Massachusetts |
| Investigating the Role of Circadian Rhythm in the Progression of Acute Myeloid Leukemia | Boston Children’s Hospital / Samantha Morris, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2013 | Massachusetts |
| Elucidating the Roles of Aneuploidy in Down Syndrome-Associated Leukemia | Boston Children’s Hospital / Chun-Chin Chen, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2023 | Massachusetts |