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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alternative Splicing Driven by MYCN Activates RAS-MAPK in Neuroblastoma | University of California San Francisco / William Weiss, MD/PhD | Innovation Grants | 2018 | California |
| Accessing Combinatorial Effect of PARP Inhibitor with DNA Damaging Agent in Rhabdomyosarcoma at Single Cell Resolution | Massachusetts General Hospital / Chuan Yan, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2018 | Massachusetts |
| Targeting the ALT Pathway to Induce Synthetic Lethality and Treat Poor Outcome Pediatric Tumors | University of California, Davis / Wolf-Dietrich Heyer, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2018 | California |
| Novel Antibodies to the C2-set Domain of CD33 for Acute Myeloid Leukemia Immunotherapy | Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center / Colin Godwin, MD | Young Investigator Grants | 2018 | Washington |
| Physical Properties of Drug-Resistant Leukemia Cells | Children's Hospital Los Angeles / Yong-mi Kim, MD/PhD | Innovation Grants | 2018 | California |
| Describing the Biological Impacts of Gain-of-function SAMD9 Mutations | Vanderbilt University Medical Center / Jason Schwartz, MD/PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2018 | Tennessee |
| MYC-driven Core Regulatory Circuits in Neuroblastoma | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute / Mark Zimmerman, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2018 | Massachusetts |
| Functional Characterization of RELA Fusion Ependymoma as a Basis for Therapeutic Targeting | Baylor College of Medicine / Stephen Mack, PhD | 'A' Award Grants | 2018 | Texas |
| Divergent Core Transcriptional Regulatory Circuitries to Highlight Context-Specific Vulnerabilities in AML | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute / Maxim Pimkin, MD/PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2018 | Massachusetts |
| Mechanisms of PAX3-FOXO1 and HES3 Cooperation in Rhabdomyosarcoma | University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas / Genevieve Kendall, PhD | 'A' Award Grants | 2018 | Texas |