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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harmonizing Data Sharing Efforts towards a Federated Data Model | University of California at Santa Cruz / Olena M. Vaske, PhD & David Haussler, PhD | Crazy 8 Pilots | 2019 | California |
| Tracking Ewing Sarcoma Origin by Developmental and Trans-species Genomics | St. Anna Children’s Cancer Research Institute / Heinrich Kovar, PhD | Crazy 8 Awards | 2020 | |
| Barcoding Pediatric Leukemia for Therapeutic Purposes | Boston Children’s Hospital / Leonard Zon, MD | Crazy 8 Awards | 2020 | Massachusetts |
| Drugging MYCN | Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia / Yael Mossé, MD | Crazy 8 Awards | 2020 | Pennsylvania |
| Targeting the biological underpinnings of pulmonary metastasis in osteosarcoma | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute / Rani George, MD/PhD | Crazy 8 Awards | 2022 | Massachusetts |
| Small Molecule Degraders for Targeting Transcription Factor Drivers of Childhood Cancers | St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital / Charles G. Mullighan, MBBS(Hons), MSc, MD, FRACP, FRCPA | Crazy 8 Awards | 2020 | Tennessee |
| Understanding and inhibiting mechanisms of metastatic spread in osteosarcoma | University of California San Francisco / Alejandro Sweet-Cordero, MD | Crazy 8 Awards | 2022 | California |
| Phase I trial of multilamellar mRNA lipid particles for recurrent pediatric high grade glioma | University of Florida / Elias Sayour, MD/PhD | R Accelerated Award Grants | 2022 | Florida |
| Epigenetic therapies to concurrently target DIPG tumor cells and harness the immune system | The Regents of the University of Michigan / Sriram Venneti, MD/PhD | R Accelerated Award Grants | 2022 | Michigan |
| Development of New Approaches to Target MAP Kinase Pathway in RAS-driven Rhabdomyosarcoma | University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio / Angelina Vaseva, PhD | R Accelerated Award Grants | 2023 | Texas |