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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3-D Printed Self-fitting Shape Memory Bone Grafts for Smart Pediatric Skeletal Reconstruction | University of Massachusetts Medical School / Jie Song, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2017 | Massachusetts |
| De-escalation of Radiotherapy for Medulloblastoma by a Novel DNA Damage Checkpoint Inhibitor | Feinstein Institute for Medical Research - North Shore / Marc Symons, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2017 | New York |
| Long Non-Coding RNAs as Novel Biomarkers and Therapeutic Targets in Pediatric Leukemia | New York University School of Medicine / Iannis Aifantis, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2017 | New York |
| Targeting BRD9 in Sarcoma | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute / Scott Armstrong, MD/PhD | Innovation Grants | 2017 | Massachusetts |
| Alternative Splicing in the Pathogenesis of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia | Children's Hospital of Philadelphia / Andrei Thomas-Tikhonenko, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2017 | Pennsylvania |
| Development of Nanoparticle-Encapsulated Chemo/Radio-Sensitizers for Intrathecal Delivery | Yale School of Medicine / Ranjit S. Bindra, MD/PhD & Mark Saltzman, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2017 | Connecticut |
| Characterization of Novel OTX2-semaphorin Gene Signaling Pathways Regulating the ‘Grow and Go’ Arms of Highly Aggressive Medulloblastomas | University of Manitoba / Tamra Werbowetski-Ogilvie, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2017 | Manitoba |
| Maternal Comorbidities, Pharmaceutical Use and Childhood Cancers: A Record Linkage Study in Taiwan | University of California, Los Angeles / Julia Heck, PhD | Epidemiology Grants | 2017 | California |
| Genomics of Pediatric Germ Cell Tumors | University of Minnesota / Jenny Poynter, PhD | Epidemiology Grants | 2017 | Minnesota |
| Reversing mSWI/SNF (BAF) Complex Misassembly and Genomic Targeting in Human Synovial Sarcoma | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute / Cigall Kadoch, PhD | 'A' Award Grants | 2017 | Massachusetts |