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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saturating CRISPR gene body scans in MLL-rearranged leukemia | Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope / Chun-Wei Chen, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2019 | California |
| Targeting MYCN | Children's Hospital of Philadelphia / Yael Mossé, MD & Julie Park, MD | Crazy 8 Pilots | 2019 | Pennsylvania |
| 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 |
| Targeting the Rac GTPase Pathway to Sabotage RAS Signaling in RAS-mutated Leukemia | Boston Children's Hospital / Sara Canovas Nunes, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2020 | Massachusetts |
| GPC2 CAR T Cell Targeted Delivery of BiKEs in High-Risk Neuroblastoma | Children's Hospital of Philadelphia / Guillem Pascual-Pasto, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2020 | Pennsylvania |
| Genetic Susceptibility to Ototoxicity in Pediatric Germ Cell Tumor Survivors | University of Minnesota / Jenny Poynter, MPH, PhD | Epidemiology Grants | 2020 | Minnesota |
| Modeling the Initiation and Progression of Down Syndrome Associated Leukemia Using CRISPR/Cas9 at Single Cell Resolution | Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai / Elvin Wagenblast, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2020 | New York |
| Identifying Epistatic Suppressors of Oncohistone in Pediatric High-Grade Gliomas | McGill University / Carol Chen, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2020 | Quebec |
| Novel Synergistic Targets for Combination Therapy in Philadelphia Chromosome-like Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia | Children's Hospital of Philadelphia / Yang Ding, MD | Young Investigator Grants | 2020 | Pennsylvania |
| Donor T-Cell DNA Methylation in GVHD and the Graft-vs-Tumor Effect after Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant | The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine / Yiouli Panayiota Ktena, MD | Young Investigator Grants | 2020 | Maryland |