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ALSF Funded Research Projects

Project Title	Institution / Principal Investigator(s)	Grant Type	Year	State
Bad Influence: EWS/FLI Alters LSD1 and NuRD Interactions to Enforce Oncogenic Function in Ewing’s	Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital / Emily Theisen, PhD	Young Investigator Grants	2016	Ohio
Ex Vivo Modeling of Medulloblastoma using Human iPSC-Derived Cerebellar Organoids	St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital / Stephanie Wu, PhD	Young Investigator Grants	2023	Tennessee
Defining how unique properties of the pediatric immune system contribute to poor efficacy of checkpoint blockade in children	Stanford University / Adrienne Long, MD/PhD	Young Investigator Grants	2024	California
DFMO-based combination therapy for the treatment of advanced stage neuroblastoma.	Cancer Research Center of Hawaii / Dana-Lynn Koomoa	Young Investigator Grants	2009	Hawaii
Novel Genomic Drivers in Pediatric Polyposis Syndromes	Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia / Suzanne MacFarland, MD	Young Investigator Grants	2019	Pennsylvania
Development of An Innovative Treatment Strategy for Neuroblastoma and Other Pediatric Tumors: A Novel Phospholipid Ester Analogue and its Multifunctional Cancer-targeting Nanoconstruct	University of Wisconsin - Madison / Mario Otto	Young Investigator Grants	2012	Wisconsin
Identification and Characterization of Pathways Dysregulated by MMSET E1099K Mutation in Relapsed Pediatric Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia and Their Role in Drug Resistance	New York University School of Medicine / Joanna Pierro, DO	Young Investigator Grants	2017	New York
The Role of Prmt1 in Osteosarcoma Initiation and Metastasis	Dana-Farber Cancer Institute / Hao-Ru Hsu, PhD	Young Investigator Grants	2013	Massachusetts
STING Pathway Activation: The Missing Link between Genomic Instability and Antitumor Immunity in Osteosarcoma	University of California San Francisco / Elizabeth Young, MD	Young Investigator Grants	2021	California
Divergent Core Transcriptional Regulatory Circuitries to Highlight Context-Specific Vulnerabilities in AML	Dana-Farber Cancer Institute / Maxim Pimkin, MD/PhD	Young Investigator Grants	2018	Massachusetts

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