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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Redefining the Cellular Architecture of Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma through Large-Scale Single-cell RNA-seq Analyses | Massachusetts General Hospital / Mario Suva, MD/PhD | Innovation Grants | 2016 | Massachusetts |
| A Role for Non-canonical Wnt/PCP Signaling in Growth and Self-Renewal of Embryonal Rhabdomyosarcoma | Massachusetts General Hospital / Madeline Hayes, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2016 | Massachusetts |
| Modeling RUNX1-Associated Clonal Hematopoietic Disorders in Zebrafish | Boston Children’s Hospital / Leonard Zon, MD | RARE Grant Program (Research Accelerating RUNX1 Exploration) | 2016 | Massachusetts |
| Targeted Inhibition of Lin28/let-7 Binding to Treat Pediatric Malignancy | Boston Children’s Hospital / George Q. Daley, MD/PhD | Innovation Grants | 2016 | Massachusetts |
| The Role of ARID1A in Neuroblastoma Pathogenesis | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute / Hui Shi, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2016 | Massachusetts |
| Modeling Pediatric Spinal Gliomas Using Murine Spinal Neural Stem Cells | The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine / Charles Eberhart, MD/PhD & Eric Raabe MD/PhD | Innovation Grants | 2016 | Maryland |
| Pre-clinical Testing of Novel Glutamine Metabolic Inhibitors in MYC-driven Medulloblastoma | The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine / Eric Raabe, MD/PhD & Dr. Barbara Slusher, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2016 | Maryland |
| Identification of Mechanisms of Resistance to Trametinib Monotherapy in PAX-fusion Negative Rhabdomyosarcoma | National Cancer Institute / Marielle Yohe, MD/PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2016 | Maryland |
| Selective Epigenetic Regulation of Notch1 in T-cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia | University of Michigan / Mark Yat-Fung Chiang, MD/PhD | Innovation Grants | 2016 | Michigan |
| HOX Genes As Developmental Regulators Of Sarcomagenesis | University of Michigan / Elizabeth Lawlor, MD/PhD & Deneen Wellik, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2016 | Michigan |