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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Is SIRT5 a Therapy Target in Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia? | University of Utah / Michael Deininger, MD/PhD | Innovation Grants | 2018 | Utah |
| Modeling and Therapeutic Targeting of p21-Activated Kinase Members in High-Risk Rhabdomyosarcoma | Baylor College of Medicine / Jason Yustein, MD/PhD | Innovation Grants | 2018 | Texas |
| Energy Balance Strategies for Decreasing Chemotherapy-Induced Cardiotoxicity | University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center / Eugenie Kleinerman, MD | Innovation Grants | 2018 | Texas |
| Olfactory Ensheathing Cells for Pediatric Glioma Gene/Cell Therapy | Massachusetts General Hospital / Bakhos Tannous, PhD | Innovation 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 |
| Targeting Glutamine Addiction in Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Gliomas (DIPGs) | University of Michigan / Sriram Venneti, MD/PhD | Innovation Grants | 2018 | Michigan |
| Targeting Oncogenic RAS in Pediatric Leukemia | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute / Loren Walensky, MD/PhD | Innovation Grants | 2018 | Massachusetts |
| Molecular Landscape for Targeted Therapy in Retinoblastoma | University of Miami / James Harbour, MD | Innovation Grants | 2018 | Florida |
| Circulating Repetitive Element RNAs as an Osteosarcoma Marker | Children’s Hospital Los Angeles / David Cobrinik, MD/PhD | Innovation Grants | 2018 | California |
| Alternative Splicing Driven by MYCN Activates RAS-MAPK in Neuroblastoma | University of California San Francisco / William Weiss, MD/PhD | Innovation Grants | 2018 | California |