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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mechanisms of leukocyte recruitment to the lung during idiopathic pneumonia syndrome following allogeneic bone marrow transplantation. | Regents of the University of Michigan / Sung Won Choi, MD | Young Investigator Grants | 2006 | Michigan |
| Molecular characterization of OTX2 as a novel therapeutic target. | Duke University Medical Center / Hai Yan, MD | Innovation Grants | 2006 | North Carolina |
| WIP1 Modulates Responsiveness of MB to Genotoxic Stress. | Aflac Cancer Center and Blood Disorders Service of Children's Healthcare of Atlanta / Robert Craig Castellino, MD | Young Investigator Grants | 2006 | Georgia |
| Tyrosine Kinase Mutation Discovery in Neuroblastoma. | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute / Matthew Meyerson, MD, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2006 | Massachusetts |
| Pain and Symptom Experiences in Children with Cancer | University of California, Los Angeles / Eufemia Jacob, PhD, RN | Nurse Researcher Grants | 2007 | California |
| Testing a Hospital Sleep Hygiene Intervention | St. Jude Children's Research Hospital / Belinda Mandrell, PhD, RN | Nurse Researcher Grants | 2007 | Tennessee |
| Saving Lives, Saving Neurons, the Head Start Consortium for Young Children with Malignant Central Nervous System Tumors | Children's Hospital Los Angeles / Jonathan Finlay, MD | Phase I/II Infrastructure Grants | 2007 | California |
| The Meaning of Adolescents' Eating Experiences during Bone Marrow Transplant Recovery. | Baylor College of Medicine / Cheryl Rodgers, PhD, RN | Nurse Researcher Grants | 2007 | Texas |
| An Exploration of the Medulloblastoma and Glioblastoma Genomes: A Critical Analysis of Candidate Cancer Genes as Potential Molecular Targets for Diagnostics and Therapeutics | The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine / Will Parsons, MD, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2007 | Maryland |
| Palliative Care and End-of-Life Communication Experiences of Pediatric Oncology Nurses. | Goldfarb School of Nursing at Barnes Jewish College of Nursing / Verna Hendricks-Ferguson, PhD | Nurse Researcher Grants | 2007 | Missouri |