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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Optimizing Engager T-cells for CD19+ Malignancies | Baylor College of Medicine / Mireya Paulina Velasquez, MD | Young Investigator Grants | 2014 | Texas |
| 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 |
| Targeting TGFb Pathway Dependencies in Group 3 Medulloblastoma | University of California San Francisco / Zulekha Qadeer, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2019 | California |
| The Effect of Locus of Care Upon Adolescent and Young Adults Cancer Outcomes: An IMPACT Cohort Study | Hospital for Sick Children / Sumit Gupta, MD, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2015 | Ontario |
| Elucidating the Roles of Aneuploidy in Down Syndrome-Associated Leukemia | Boston Children’s Hospital / Chun-Chin Chen, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2023 | Massachusetts |
| Targeting the Mechanism of Differentiation Arrest in a Novel Model of Acute Leukemia | Massachusetts General Hospital / David Sykes | Young Investigator Grants | 2011 | Massachusetts |
| Generation of a novel oncolytic virus for treatment of pediatric brain tumors. | The Ohio State University / Balveen Kaur, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2007 | Ohio |
| Unraveling GABAergic interneuron-like lineage in H3G34-mutant hemispheric high-grade gliomas: their impact on network formation and invasion | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute / Gustavo Alencastro Veiga Cruzeiro, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2024 | Massachusetts |
| Targeting Oncogenic N-MYC Complexes in High-Risk Neuroblastoma | The Regents of the University of California San Francisco / Bo Qiu, MD/PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2023 | California |
| Epigenetic Regulation of T cell Activation and Immunotherapy | The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine / Brian Ladle, MD, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2013 | Maryland |