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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reversing mSWI/SNF (BAF) Complex Misassembly and Genomic Targeting in Human Synovial Sarcoma | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute / Cigall Kadoch, PhD | 'A' Award Grants | 2017 | Massachusetts |
| Novel Approaches to AML Differentiation Therapy | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute / Andrew Lane, MD/PhD | 'A' Award Grants | 2017 | Massachusetts |
| Genomics of Pediatric Germ Cell Tumors | University of Minnesota / Jenny Poynter, PhD | Epidemiology Grants | 2017 | Minnesota |
| Maternal Comorbidities, Pharmaceutical Use and Childhood Cancers: A Record Linkage Study in Taiwan | University of California, Los Angeles / Julia Heck, PhD | Epidemiology Grants | 2017 | California |
| Characterization of Novel OTX2-semaphorin Gene Signaling Pathways Regulating the ‘Grow and Go’ Arms of Highly Aggressive Medulloblastomas | University of Manitoba / Tamra Werbowetski-Ogilvie, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2017 | Manitoba |
| 3-D Printed Self-fitting Shape Memory Bone Grafts for Smart Pediatric Skeletal Reconstruction | University of Massachusetts Medical School / Jie Song, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2017 | Massachusetts |
| Novel Approaches for Epigenetic Therapy for Relapsed Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia | The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine / Linda Resar, MD & Andrei Thomas-Tikhonenko, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2017 | Maryland |
| Role of Protocadherin-9 in Enabling Leukemia Cell Colonization of the CNS | National Jewish Health / Jordan Jacobelli, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2017 | Colorado |
| Defining the Cell Surface Landscape of Diagnostic and Relapsed Neuroblastoma: Immunotherapeutic Target Identification | Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia / Sharon Diskin, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2017 | Pennsylvania |
| Targeting Pediatric Brain Tumors Using PTPmu Nanochains with Radiofrequency-Releasable Therapeutics | Case Western Reserve University / Susann Brady-Kalnay, PhD & Efstathios Karathanasis, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2017 | Ohio |