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 |
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Targeting Eya2 to Inhibit c-Myc driven Medulloblastoma Tumor Progression | University of Colorado Denver / Melanie Vincent, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2016 | Colorado |
Reversing the Oncogenic Roles of Misdirected Chromatin Remodeling in Synovial Sarcoma | Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford University School of Medicine / Cigall Kadoch, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2013 | California |
Optimizing EGFR targeted therapy in pediatric malignant glioma. | University of California San Francisco / Theodore Nicolaides | Young Investigator Grants | 2009 | California |
Identification and Validation of Differentiation Therapy for Osteosarcoma | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute / Katherine Janeway, MD | Young Investigator Grants | 2008 | Massachusetts |
Cancer Susceptibility and Signaling Pathways in Low-Grade Brain Tumors | Jewish General Hospital / Bárbara Rivera, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2017 | Quebec |
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 |
Dissecting the Hierarchy of Tumor Cell Differentiation Using Dual Recombinase Technology in a Novel Mouse Model of Rhabdomyosarcoma | Duke University Medical Center / David Van Mater, MD, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2013 | North Carolina |
Understanding the Mechanisms of HOX Gene Regulation in Normal and Leukemic Hematopoietic Stem Cells to Identify New Therapies for Pediatric AML | Boston Children’s Hospital / Anne Robertson, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2017 | Massachusetts |
Mechanisms of CNOT3 Tumor Suppression in T-ALL and Identification of New Drugs That Specifically Kill CNOT3-Deficient T-ALL Cells | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute / Zhaodong Li, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2014 | Massachusetts |
Using Neurofibromatosis-1 (NF1) to understand Pediatric Brain Tumor Initiation | MD Anderson Cancer Center / Yuan Pan, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2020 | Texas |