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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Role of Myosin VI in Pediatric Glioma Proliferation and Invasion | University of Pennsylvania / Monalisa Mukherjea | Young Investigator Grants | 2012 | Pennsylvania |
| Redefining Osteosarcoma Metastases as Chronic Non-healing Lung Wounds: Implications for Developing Novel Therapies | Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital / James Reinecke, MD/PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2021 | Ohio |
| The Impact of Hypoxia on Epigenetic Changes in Neuroblastoma | University of Chicago / Sakshi Uppal, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2017 | Illinois |
| Role of N6-Methyladenosine (m6A) mRNA Modification Pathway in Neuroblastoma | Boston Children's Hospital / Shuibin Lin, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2017 | Massachusetts |
| Investigating the Role of the RNA Binding Protein LIN28 in Neuroblastoma | Boston Children's Hospital / John Powers | Young Investigator Grants | 2012 | Massachusetts |
| MicroRNAs 100 and 125b in Ewing sarcoma | University of Colorado Denver / Paul Jedlicka | Young Investigator Grants | 2010 | Colorado |
| Investigation of Pediatric Rhabdomyosarcoma Recurrence through Single-Cell Sequencing | St. Jude Children's Research Hospital / Anand Patel, MD/PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2019 | Tennessee |
| Zebrafish Modeling of PAX3-FOXO1 Driven Rhabdomyosarcoma | University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center / Genevieve Kendall, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2015 | Texas |
| PRL3 as a Novel Therapeutic Target for Relapsed T-cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia | Massachusetts General Hospital / Jessica Blackburn, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2013 | Massachusetts |
| Identification of FDA approved drugs with anti-tumor activity in rhabdomyosarcoma. | Massachusetts General Hospital / David Langenau | Young Investigator Grants | 2009 | Massachusetts |