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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The Role of DNA Methylation in Pediatric Cancer | Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center / Scott Diede | Young Investigator Grants | 2010 | Washington |
Investigating the Role of the RNA Binding Protein LIN28 in Neuroblastoma | Boston Children’s Hospital / John Powers | Young Investigator Grants | 2012 | Massachusetts |
Interrogation of Neuroblastoma Dependencies and RNAs on the Core-Regulatory Circuitry for Therapeutic Inhibition | St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital / Adam Durbin, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2018 | Tennessee |
Targeting the Checkpoint Receptor TIGIT via CRISPR/Cas9 Genome Editing to Enhance NK Cell Anti-Tumor Activity | Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital / Amanda Campbell, MD/PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2023 | Ohio |
High-Throughput Gene-Editing via Microfluidic Cell Deformability to Enable Off-the-Shelf Allogeneic Cellular Immunotherapies | University of California, Los Angeles / Steven Jonas, MD/PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2017 | California |
Identification of Mechanisms of Resistance to Trametinib Monotherapy in PAX-fusion Negative Rhabdomyosarcoma | National Cancer Institute / Marielle Yohe, MD/PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2016 | Maryland |
PRL3 as a Novel Therapeutic Target for Relapsed T-cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia | Massachusetts General Hospital / Jessica Blackburn, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2013 | Massachusetts |
Using zebrafish to model the molecular origins of pediatric myeloid malignancies and acute myeloid leukemia | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute / Evisa Gjini | Young Investigator Grants | 2011 | Massachusetts |
Epigenomic Mechanisms of Neuroblastoma Tumorigenesis | Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia / Jo Lynne Harenza, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2017 | Pennsylvania |
A CRISPRi Genetic Screen in Ewing sarcoma Identifies a Novel Dependence on Homologous Recombination DNA Repair | University of California San Francisco / Asmin Tulpule, MD/PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2016 | California |