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 1,000 funded projects below.
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ALSF Funded Research Projects
| Project Title | Institution / Principal Investigator(s) |
Grant Type |
Year | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Genomic Alterations in Medulloblastoma | Children's Hospital Los Angeles / Shahab Asgharzadeh, MD | Young Investigator Grants | 2008 | California |
| 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 |
| A Role for Non-canonical Wnt/PCP Signaling in Growth and Self-Renewal of Embryonal Rhabdomyosarcoma | Massachusetts General Hospital / Madeline Hayes, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2016 | Massachusetts |
| Using Neurofibromatosis-1 (NF1) to understand Pediatric Brain Tumor Initiation | MD Anderson Cancer Center / Yuan Pan, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2020 | Texas |
| CDK8 as a New Therapeutic Target in Alveolar Rhabdomyosarcoma | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute / Susu Zhang, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2023 | Massachusetts |
| Preclinical Efficacy of Daratumumab in T Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia | New York University School of Medicine / Karen Bride, MD/PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2017 | New York |
| Reciprocal interactions between tumor killer dendritic cells and tumor-induced regulatory T lymphocytes | University of Arizona / Nicolas Larmonier, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2008 | Arizona |
| Development of Targeted Therapies in High Risk Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia | Children's Hospital of Philadelphia / Sarah Tasian | Young Investigator Grants | 2012 | Pennsylvania |
| DFMO-based combination therapy for the treatment of advanced stage neuroblastoma. | Cancer Research Center of Hawaii / Dana-Lynn Koomoa | Young Investigator Grants | 2009 | Hawaii |
| Anti-Angiogenic Effects of BAI Proteins in Neuroblastoma | Children's Hospital of Philadelphia / Naomi Balamuth, MD | Young Investigator Grants | 2006 | Pennsylvania |