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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Identifying Mechanisms of Glucocorticoid Resistance in Pediatric Acute Lymphoblastic | University of Massachusetts Medical School / Michelle Kelliher, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2015 | Massachusetts |
| Developing a Novel Tumor Model to Screen for New Therapies for Spinal Ependymoma | The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine / Linda Resar, MD & Richard Schlegel, MD, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2015 | Maryland |
| Optimizing Bispecific Antibody Therapy for Acute Leukemias | Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center / Roland Walter, MD, PhD & James Olson, MD, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2015 | Washington |
| Antibody Targeted Natural Killer Cell-Derived Extracellular Vesicles for the Treatment of Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia and Neuroblastoma | Children’s Hospital Los Angeles / Robert Seeger, MD & Alan Wayne, MD | Innovation Grants | 2015 | California |
| Single Cell Analysis of Leukemia Initiation | Stanford University / Michael Cleary, MD | Innovation Grants | 2015 | California |
| Enhancing Effectiveness of Immune Checkpoint Therapy in Neuroblastoma | Children’s Hospital Los Angeles / Shahab Asgharzadeh, MD | Innovation Grants | 2015 | California |
| Histone H3.3 Targeted Therapy for Pediatric High-grade Gliomas | University of California, Davis Medical Center / Paul Knoepfler, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2015 | California |
| Enhanced Drug Repurposing Screen in DSRCT Enabled by New In Vitro and In Vivo Models Based on CRISPR/Cas9 Genome Engineering | Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center / Marc Ladanyi, MD & Maria Jasin, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2015 | New York |
| Integrative Genomic and Immunogenomic Analysis of Neuroblastoma | University of California at Santa Cruz / David Haussler, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2015 | California |
| Functional Analysis and Therapeutic Targeting of STAG2 Mutations in Ewing sarcoma | Georgetown University / Todd Waldman, MD, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2015 | District of Columbia |