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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drugging MYCN | Children's Hospital of Philadelphia / Yael Mossé, MD | Crazy 8 Awards | 2021 | Pennsylvania |
| Tracking Ewing Sarcoma Origin by Developmental and Trans-species Genomics | St. Anna Children´s Cancer Research Institute / Heinrich Kovar, PhD | Crazy 8 Awards | 2021 | |
| Small Molecule Degraders for Targeting Transcription Factor Drivers of Childhood Cancers | St. Jude Children's Research Hospital / Charles G. Mullighan, MBBS(Hons), MSc, MD, FRACP, FRCPA | Crazy 8 Awards | 2021 | Tennessee |
| Barcoding Pediatric Leukemia for Therapeutic Purposes | Boston Children's Hospital / Leonard Zon, MD | Crazy 8 Awards | 2021 | Massachusetts |
| Modeling familial platelet disorder associated RUNX1 mutations in mice | University of Massachusetts Medical School / Lucio Castilla, PhD | Familial RUNX1 Research Grants | 2020 | Massachusetts |
| 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 |
| Characterization of Chromatin Landscapes to Identify Therapeutic Vulnerabilities in Diffuse Midline Gliomas. | Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center / Jay Sarthy, MD/PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2019 | Washington |
| Identify Novel Druggable Targets to Treat Philadelphia chromosome-like B-Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia | Children's Hospital of Philadelphia / Wei Tong, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2019 | Pennsylvania |
| Enhancing the therapeutic efficacy of chimeric antigen receptor T cells for acute myeloid leukemia | Washington University / Miriam Kim, MD | Young Investigator Grants | 2019 | Missouri |
| 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 |