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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Delivering on the Promise of Germline Genetic Testing for RUNX1 Variants | University of Washington, Seattle / Abbye McEwen, MD, PhD | RUNX1 Early Career Investigator Grants | 2022 | Washington |
| Isoform-specific TNC-redirected T cell Therapy for DIPG | St. Jude Children's Research Hospital / Stephen Gottschalk, MD and Giedre Krenciute, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2022 | Tennessee |
| Impact of STAG2 loss on DNA Damage and Immunobiology in Ewing sarcoma | University of Pittsburgh / Kelly Bailey, MD, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2022 | Pennsylvania |
| Targeted nanoparticle-mediated “cold”-to-“hot” reprogramming of the tumor microenvironment of high-risk neuroblastoma | University of Massachusetts Amherst / Prabhani Atukorale, PhD & Jason Shohet, MD, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2022 | Massachusetts |
| Stapled Peptide PROTAC: A 3-in-1 Treatment for Pediatric Solid Tumors | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute / Loren Walensky, MD/PhD | Reach Grants | 2021 | Massachusetts |
| Optimization of Drug Efflux and Brain Clearance to Improve CED of Targeted Therapy to H3K27M DMG | Mayo Clinic / David Daniels, MD/PhD | Reach Grants | 2021 | Minnesota |
| IND-Enabling Studies for WNTinib, a Novel Selective Therapeutic for CTNNB1 Mutant Hepatoblastomas | Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai / Ernesto Guccione, PhD & Josep Llovet, MD & Arvin Dar, PhD | Reach Grants | 2021 | New York |
| The Interplay Between Histone Mutations and Replication Stress in Shaping Glioma Phenotypes | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute / Pratiti Bandopadhayay, PhD | 'A' Award Grants | 2021 | Massachusetts |
| Circulating Tumor Biomarkers: New Paradigms for Management of Neuroblastoma | University of Chicago / Mark Applebaum, PhD | 'A' Award Grants | 2021 | Illinois |
| Turning Killers into THINKers: TME Hostility-Impervious NK Cells for Treating Neuroblastoma and Sarcoma | Baylor College of Medicine / Robin Parihar, MD/PhD | 'A' Award Grants | 2021 | Texas |