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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Developing an accurate genetic model for rhabdomyosarcoma therapy | Children’s Research Institute / Dawn Chandler, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2007 | District of Columbia |
Selective inhibition of nuclear export as a novel therapeutic strategy in AML | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute / Julia Etchin | Young Investigator Grants | 2012 | Massachusetts |
Genetic Dissection of Trisomy 21-TMD Using Human Pluripotent Stem Cells | Boston Children’s Hospital / Glenn MacLean | Young Investigator Grants | 2013 | Massachusetts |
Mechanisms of leukocyte recruitment to the lung during idiopathic pneumonia syndrome following allogeneic bone marrow transplantation. | Regents of the University of Michigan / Sung Won Choi, MD | Young Investigator Grants | 2006 | Michigan |
Augmenting Chimeric Antigen Receptor T Cell Induced Epitope Spreading for Pediatric Solid Tumors | Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia / Michael Leibowitz, MD/PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2018 | Pennsylvania |
Characterization of Chromatin Landscapes to Identify Therapeutic Vulnerabilities in Diffuse Midline Gliomas. | Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center / Jay Sarthy, MD/PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2019 | Washington |
Transcriptome Sequencing (RNA-Seq) for Identification of Novel Markers of Disease Outcome and Therapeutic Targets in Acute Myeloid Leukemia | Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center / Fabiana Ostronoff, MD | Young Investigator Grants | 2012 | Washington |
Assess the activity of ABT-737 as a single agent against neuroblastoma cell lines grown in cell culture | Children’s Hospital Los Angeles / Theresa Harned, MD | Young Investigator Grants | 2006 | California |
Describing the Biological Impacts of Gain-of-function SAMD9 Mutations | Vanderbilt University Medical Center / Jason Schwartz, MD/PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2018 | Tennessee |
Optimizing EGFR targeted therapy in pediatric malignant glioma. | University of California San Francisco / Theodore Nicolaides | Young Investigator Grants | 2009 | California |