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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| De-escalation of Radiotherapy for Medulloblastoma by a Novel DNA Damage Checkpoint Inhibitor | Feinstein Institute for Medical Research - North Shore / Marc Symons, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2017 | New York |
| Deciphering the Mechanisms of Medulloblastoma Treatment Resistance using Integrative Genomics | Hospital for Sick Children / Vijay Ramaswamy, MD | Young Investigator Grants | 2014 | Ontario |
| Defining the Cell Surface Landscape of Diagnostic and Relapsed Neuroblastoma: Immunotherapeutic Target Identification | Children's Hospital of Philadelphia / Sharon Diskin, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2017 | Pennsylvania |
| Defining the Mechanism by which LIN28B acts as an Oncogene in Neuroblastoma | Children's Hospital of Philadelphia / Robert Schnepp, MD, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2013 | Pennsylvania |
| Defining the Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Pediatric Brain Tumor Penetrance | Washington University / Nicole Brossier, MD/PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2019 | Missouri |
| Defining the Role of a Novel, Developmentally Restricted Hematopoietic Stem Cell in Pediatric Leukemias | University of California at Santa Cruz / Camilla Forsberg, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2013 | California |
| Describing the Biological Impacts of Gain-of-function SAMD9 Mutations | St. Jude Children's Research Hospital / Jason Schwartz, MD/PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2018 | Tennessee |
| Detection of Circulating Tumor DNA in Pediatric Sarcomas | The Regents of the University of California San Francisco / Alejandro Sweet-Cordero, MD & Maximillian Diehn, MD/PhD (Stanford University) | Innovation Grants | 2016 | California |
| Determinants of Testicular Germ Cell Tumor Platinum Sensitivity and Resistance | University of California, San Diego / Paolo Abada | Young Investigator Grants | 2012 | California |
| Determining Social Risk Factors for Poor Outcomes in Pediatric Cancer Using Children’s Oncology Group Registries | University of Utah / Anne Kirchhoff, PhD/MPH | Epidemiology Grants | 2019 | Utah |