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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| In Situ CD19.CAR-T Generation Using TRIDENT System for Pediatric B Cell Malignancies | Baylor College of Medicine / Masataka Suzuki, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2023 | Texas |
| Targeting MYCN-amplified Neuroblastoma Through RORalpha Activation | Baylor College of Medicine / Eveline Barbiere, MD | Innovation Grants | 2016 | Texas |
| Synthetic Gene Expression Regulatory Switches (SynGERS) for Improved CAR T Cell Function in Pediatric Solid Tumors | Baylor College of Medicine / Leidy Diana Caraballo Galva, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2023 | Texas |
| Multispecific T Cells for Adoptive Immunotherapy of Pediatric High Grade Glioma (HGG) | Baylor College of Medicine / Nabil Ahmed, MD, MSc | Innovation Grants | 2013 | Texas |
| Building a Texas-based center for neuroblastoma clinical research. | Baylor College of Medicine / Heidi Russell, MD | Phase I/II Infrastructure Grants | 2006 | Texas |
| Mediators of Metastasis in Alveolar Rhabdomyosarcoma. | University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio / Koichi Nishijo, MD, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2006 | Texas |
| GENOME ORIGAMI: Refolding Aberrant Chromosome 3D Structure for Treating NUT Carcinoma | Baylor College of Medicine / Kyle Eagen, PhD | R Accelerated Award Grants | 2022 | Texas |
| Parallel sequencing to identify the causes of childhood cancer | Baylor College of Medicine / Sharon Plon | Innovation Grants | 2008 | Texas |
| Adoptive immunotherapy using clinical-grade T cells. | University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center / Laurence Cooper, MD, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2007 | Texas |
| V alpha-invariant NKT cells as a novel platform for cancer immunotherapy | Baylor College of Medicine / Leonid Metelitsa, MD, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2012 | Texas |