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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DFMO-based combination therapy for the treatment of advanced stage neuroblastoma. | Cancer Research Center of Hawaii / Dana-Lynn Koomoa | Young Investigator Grants | 2009 | Hawaii |
| Modeling the Initiation and Progression of Down Syndrome Associated Leukemia Using CRISPR/Cas9 at Single Cell Resolution | Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai / Elvin Wagenblast, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2020 | New York |
| Targeting the Epigenome of Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma | The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine / Sama Ahsan, MD | Young Investigator Grants | 2014 | Maryland |
| Genetic Dissection of Cancer Drug Resistance and Toxicity Using Haploid Human Cells | Stanford University / Ramin Dubey, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2015 | California |
| Social Determinants of Health, Hospital-level Resources, and Risk of Septic Shock in Pediatric Leukemia | Children's Hospital of Philadelphia / Jenny Ruiz, MD | Young Investigator Grants | 2021 | Pennsylvania |
| Novel Role of Hematopoietic Stem Cells in Immunologic Rejection of Malignant Pediatric Brain Tumors | University of Florida / Catherine Flores, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2015 | Florida |
| Dissecting Functional uORFs as a Source of Cancer Genes in High-Risk Medulloblastoma | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute / John Prensner, MD/PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2021 | Massachusetts |
| Novel Antibodies to the C2-set Domain of CD33 for Acute Myeloid Leukemia Immunotherapy | Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center / Colin Godwin, MD | Young Investigator Grants | 2018 | Washington |
| Targeting Protein Translation to Antagonize MYC-driven Neuroblastoma | Children's Hospital of Philadelphia / Andrea Flynn, MD | Young Investigator Grants | 2017 | Pennsylvania |
| Genomic Alterations in ETV6 Predict Outcome in Pediatric AML | Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center / Heather Helton, MD | Young Investigator Grants | 2013 | Washington |