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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Role of Protocadherin-9 in Enabling Leukemia Cell Colonization of the CNS | National Jewish Health / Jordan Jacobelli, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2017 | Colorado |
| Targeting Childhood Brain Cancer in a Dish to Catalyze New Therapies | University of California, Davis Medical Center / Paul Knoepfler, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2017 | California |
| Establishing the Function of Novel MicroRNAs Associated with Resistance and Relapse in Pediatric AML | Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center / Vivian Oehler, MD & Soheil Meshinchi, MD/PhD | Innovation Grants | 2017 | Washington |
| Novel Approaches for Epigenetic Therapy for Relapsed Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia | The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine / Linda Resar, MD & Andrei Thomas-Tikhonenko, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2017 | Maryland |
| Mechanisms of OTX2 Mediated Chromatin Regulation in Medulloblastoma | Massachusetts General Hospital / Miguel Rivera, MD | Innovation Grants | 2017 | Massachusetts |
| Targeted Degradation of Proliferative Transcription Factors in Pediatric Cancers | University of California at Santa Cruz / Seth Rubin, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2017 | California |
| 3-D Printed Self-fitting Shape Memory Bone Grafts for Smart Pediatric Skeletal Reconstruction | University of Massachusetts Medical School / Jie Song, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2017 | Massachusetts |
| 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 |
| Long Non-Coding RNAs as Novel Biomarkers and Therapeutic Targets in Pediatric Leukemia | New York University School of Medicine / Iannis Aifantis, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2017 | New York |
| Alternative Splicing in the Pathogenesis of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia | Children's Hospital of Philadelphia / Andrei Thomas-Tikhonenko, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2017 | Pennsylvania |