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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Modifying CAR T cell epigenetic programs to improve therapy against aggressive pediatric brain tumors | St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital / Meghan Ward, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2024 | Tennessee |
| Exploiting a Novel DNA Repair Defect in Ewing Sarcoma | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute / Shuhei Asada, MD/PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2024 | Massachusetts |
| The influence of the raphe nucleus and serotonin on progression of diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma | Stanford University / Richard Drexler, MD/PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2024 | California |
| Improving homing and activity of CAR T cells in pediatric sarcomas | University of Colorado Denver / Joselyn Cruz Cruz, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2024 | Colorado |
| The role of reactive gliosis in response to Immunotherapy in Diffuse Midline Glioma | University of Florida / Christina von Roemeling, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2024 | Florida |
| RAF Dimer Inhibitor Treatment in Pediatric Acute Myeloid Leukemia | The Regents of the University of California San Francisco / Kevin Shannon, MD | Innovation Grants | 2024 | California |
| Illuminating Choroid Plexus Carcinoma Vascularization in Real Time | Boston Children’s Hospital / Maria Lehtinen, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2024 | Massachusetts |
| Development of CAR-T therapy for Ewing sarcoma using zebrafish in vivo models | Children’s Hospital Los Angeles / James Amatruda, MD/PhD | Innovation Grants | 2024 | California |
| Targeting the immunosuppressive effects of Myc-hyperactivation in high-risk osteosarcoma | Emory University / Jason Yustein, MD/PhD | Innovation Grants | 2024 | Georgia |
| Targeting and imaging immunometabolic vulnerabilities in diffuse midline glioma | The Regents of the University of California San Francisco / Pavithra Viswanath, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2024 | California |