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 Therapy of Heterogeneous B-cell Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia by Targeting Convergent Oncogenic Mediators STATs | University of Alberta / Hasan Uludag, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2019 | Alberta |
| Role of the macro lncRNA KCNQ1OT1 in embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma tumorigenesis | Duke University / Corinne Linardic, MD/PhD | Innovation Grants | 2019 | North Carolina |
| Epigenetic regulation of genomic instability and its therapeutic implications in T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute / Birgit Knoechel, MD/PhD | Innovation Grants | 2019 | Massachusetts |
| CD36-Sphingosine 1-Phosphate Axis in Osteosarcoma Progression | Medical University of South Carolina / Meenal Mehrotra, MD/PhD | Innovation Grants | 2019 | South Carolina |
| The use of hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells to reverse treatment resistance to PD-1 blockade | University of Florida / Catherine Flores, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2019 | Florida |
| Defining the Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Pediatric Brain Tumor Penetrance | Washington University / Nicole Brossier, MD/PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2019 | Missouri |
| ECM-targeted CAR T-cell therapy for high-grade glioma | St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital / Jessica Wagner, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2019 | Tennessee |
| Improving CAR T-Cell Therapy for Pediatric Osteosarcoma by Manipulating Arginine Metabolism | St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital / Shannon Lange, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2019 | Tennessee |
| Targeting Valine-Specific Amino Acid Dependency -in T-Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia | New York University School of Medicine / Palaniraja Thandapani, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2019 | New York |
| Modeling H3 G34R and BCOR-Altered Glioma Pathogenesis Using Neural Stem Cells | The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine / Satoshi Nakata, MD/PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2019 | Maryland |