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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overcoming Menin-inhibitor resistance | Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia / Kathrin Bernt, MD | Reach Grants | 2024 | Pennsylvania |
| Vaccine-boosted CAR T cell therapy for high risk neuroblastoma | Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia / Timothy Spear, MD/PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2024 | Pennsylvania |
| IGFBPL1 Peptide-Centric Chimeric Antigen Receptor Autologous T Cells for Relapsed HLA-A*02 Neuroblastoma and Medulloblastoma | Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia / John Maris, MD | Reach Grants | 2024 | Pennsylvania |
| RAF Dimer Inhibitor Treatment in Pediatric Acute Myeloid Leukemia | The Regents of the University of California San Francisco / Kevin Shannon, MD | Innovation Grants | 2024 | California |
| Targeting and imaging immunometabolic vulnerabilities in diffuse midline glioma | The Regents of the University of California San Francisco / Pavithra Viswanath, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2024 | California |
| Improving homing and activity of CAR T cells in pediatric sarcomas | University of Colorado Denver / Joselyn Cruz Cruz, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2024 | Colorado |
| Understanding the role of CDK8 in protein synthesis for treating MYC-driven medulloblastoma | University of Colorado Denver / Dong Wang, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2024 | Colorado |
| Targeting of a putative unresolved wound healing process in childhood ependymoma | University of Colorado Denver / Nicholas Foreman, MD | Innovation Grants | 2024 | Colorado |
| The role of reactive gliosis in response to Immunotherapy in Diffuse Midline Glioma | University of Florida / Christina von Roemeling, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2024 | Florida |
| Therapeutic targeting of clonal hematopoiesis in RUNX1 mutant FPDMM | University of Pennsylvania / Robert Bowman, Ph.D. | RARE Grant Program (Research Accelerating RUNX1 Exploration) | 2024 | Pennsylvania |