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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Identifying Therapeutic Vulnerabilities in Pediatric AML through Investigation of the MECOM Transcriptional Network | Boston Children’s Hospital / Richard Voit, MD/PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2023 | Massachusetts |
| Elucidating the Roles of Aneuploidy in Down Syndrome-Associated Leukemia | Boston Children’s Hospital / Chun-Chin Chen, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2023 | Massachusetts |
| Targeting Chromatin Remodeling Complexes for Rhabdomyosarcoma (RMS) Therapy | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute / Jun Qi, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2023 | Massachusetts |
| Targeting Neurons in the Osteosarcoma Microenvironment with Non-Opioid Analgesic Lipid Nanoparticles | The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine / Aaron James, MD, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2023 | Maryland |
| Mechanisms to Redirect Tumor Associated Macrophages to Target Retinoblastoma Cells | The Regents of the University of Minnesota / Timothy Hallstrom, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2023 | Minnesota |
| A Genomics Driven Pluripotent Stem Cell Model of Infant Lymphoblastic Leukemia | Children's Mercy Hospital Kansas City / Meagan Vacek, DO | Catalyst Grants | 2023 | Missouri |
| Modulation of STING to enhance the efficacy of treatments for diffuse midline glioma | Duke University / Zachary Reitman, MD/PhD | 'A' Award Grants | 2023 | North Carolina |
| The role of pyruvate kinase as a therapeutic target in pediatric leukemia | Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey / Daniel Herranz Benito, PhD | R Accelerated Award Grants | 2023 | New Jersey |
| The Impact of the Intestinal Microbiome on Sarcoma Metastasis | Albert Einstein College of Medicine / David Loeb, MD, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2023 | New York |
| Circumventing Pediatric Solid Tumor Microenvironment Resistance by Combinatorial CAR NK and Immunomodulating Therapy | New York Medical College / Mitchell Cairo, MD | Reach Grants | 2023 | New York |