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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
Predicting and Overcoming Resistance to Immunotherapy in Pediatric High-Grade Glioma	Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago / Oren Becher, MD & Robert Wechsler-Reya, PhD	Innovation Grants	2019	Illinois
Role of the macro lncRNA KCNQ1OT1 in embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma tumorigenesis	Duke University / Corinne Linardic, MD/PhD	Innovation Grants	2019	North Carolina
Saturating CRISPR gene body scans in MLL-rearranged leukemia	Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope / Chun-Wei Chen, PhD	Innovation Grants	2019	California
Pediatric Osteosarcoma: Identifying the elusive molecular signature and its relationship to this disease	St. Jude Children's Research Hospital / Linda Hendershot, PhD	Innovation Grants	2019	Tennessee
Using Splice Switching Oligonucleotides (SSOs) to target MDM2 for rhabdomyosarcoma therapy	Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital / Dawn Chandler, PhD	Innovation Grants	2019	Ohio
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
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
Targeting mechanisms of Siglec15-mediated immune evasion in hematologic malignancies	Emory University / Christopher Porter, MD	Innovation Grants	2019	Georgia
Cancer Risk and Incidence in Beckwith-Wiedemann Syndrome	Children's Hospital of Philadelphia / Jennifer Kalish, MD/PhD	Epidemiology Grants	2019	Pennsylvania
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

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