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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A Comparison of Parent and Clinician Reported Toxicities in Standard Radiation Versus Proton Beam Radiation in Children with Posterior Fossa Tumors. | Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia / Rosanna Pollack, RN & Cynthia Schmus, RN | Nurse Researcher Grants | 2007 | Pennsylvania |
Impact of STAG2 loss on DNA Damage and Immunobiology in Ewing sarcoma | University of Pittsburgh / Kelly Bailey, MD, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2022 | Pennsylvania |
Characterization and Targeting of Novel Activating BRAF Mutations in Pediatric Brain Tumors | Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia / Angela Waanders, MD, MPH | Young Investigator Grants | 2010 | Pennsylvania |
Neighborhood Factors, Acute Kidney Injury and Disparities in Pediatric Acute Myeloid Leukemia | Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia / Richard Aplenc, MD/PhD | Epidemiology Grants | 2018 | Pennsylvania |
Novel Genomic Drivers in Pediatric Polyposis Syndromes | Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia / Suzanne MacFarland, MD | Young Investigator Grants | 2019 | Pennsylvania |
Trk-Targeted Therapy of Human Neuroblastomas | Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia / Garrett Brodeur, M.D. | Bridge Grants | 2014 | Pennsylvania |
Sepsis as innate immune stimulus: severe sepsis exposures and protection against relapse in children with acute leukemias | Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia / Alix Seif, MD | Epidemiology Grants | 2016 | Pennsylvania |
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 |
Mechanisms Regulating Medulloblastoma Progression | University of Pennsylvania / Nadia Dahmane, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2013 | Pennsylvania |
Radiation and the Tumor Microenvironment in an Immunocompetent Model of Ewing Sarcoma | Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh Foundation / Jessica Daley, MD | Young Investigator Grants | 2023 | Pennsylvania |