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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Novel mechanisms and therapeutic targeting of chemoresistant rhabdomyosarcoma | Massachusetts General Hospital / Yueyang Wang, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2024 | Massachusetts |
| Direct targeting of oncoprotein assembly using mimetic peptide interference | Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center / Alex Kentsis, MD/PhD | Innovation Grants | 2024 | New York |
| Capitalizing on functional genomics with targeted protein degradation in neuroblastoma | St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital / Ian Delahunty, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2024 | Tennessee |
| Modifying CAR T cell epigenetic programs to improve therapy against aggressive pediatric brain tumors | St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital / Meghan Ward, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2024 | Tennessee |
| Vaccine-boosted CAR T cell therapy for high risk neuroblastoma | Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia / Timothy Spear, MD/PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2024 | Pennsylvania |
| RAF Dimer Inhibitor Treatment in Pediatric Acute Myeloid Leukemia | The Regents of the University of California San Francisco / Kevin Shannon, MD | Innovation Grants | 2024 | California |
| Targeting and imaging immunometabolic vulnerabilities in diffuse midline glioma | The Regents of the University of California San Francisco / Pavithra Viswanath, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2024 | California |
| Understanding the role of CDK8 in protein synthesis for treating MYC-driven medulloblastoma | University of Colorado Denver / Dong Wang, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2024 | Colorado |
| Targeting of a putative unresolved wound healing process in childhood ependymoma | University of Colorado Denver / Nicholas Foreman, MD | Innovation Grants | 2024 | Colorado |
| Improving homing and activity of CAR T cells in pediatric sarcomas | University of Colorado Denver / Joselyn Cruz Cruz, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2024 | Colorado |