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 |
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Generation of a novel oncolytic virus for treatment of pediatric brain tumors. | The Ohio State University / Balveen Kaur, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2007 | Ohio |
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 |
Improving Immune-Mediated Oncolytic Viral Therapy: Engineering Tumor Vaccine Elements into the Virus | Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital / Kevin Cassady, MD & Christopher Walker, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2016 | Ohio |
Targeting Pediatric Brain Tumors Using PTPmu Nanochains with Radiofrequency-Releasable Therapeutics | Case Western Reserve University / Susann Brady-Kalnay, PhD & Efstathios Karathanasis, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2017 | Ohio |
Unraveling the Function of PAX3-FOXO1’s Activation Domain in Rhabdomyosarcoma | Case Western Reserve University / Berkley Gryder, PhD | 'A' Award Grants | 2023 | Ohio |
Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital / Mary Beth Ross, MD/PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2006 | Ohio | |
Untangling the Matrix in Medulloblastoma | St. Christopher's Hospital for Children / Duncan Stearns, MD | Young Investigator Grants | 2008 | Ohio |
Epigenetic manipulation of leukemia. | Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center / H. Leighton Grimes | Innovation Grants | 2009 | Ohio |
Novel STAT3 drug development for childhood osteosarcoma therapy using drug repositioning | Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital / Jiayuh Lin, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2012 | Ohio |
Therapeutic Targeting of LARG-RhoA Signaling Axis in Childhood Leukemia | Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center / Yi Zheng, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2013 | Ohio |