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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Use sophisticated approaches to optimize the effectiveness of current chemotherapy agents, and to develop novel chemotherapy agents | Seattle Children’s Hospital and Regional Medical Center / Julie Park, MD | Phase I/II Infrastructure Grants | 2006 | 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 |
| Self-Management of Cancer-Related Fatigue by Adolescents: Pilot Study of an Evidence Based Educational Resource. | Seattle Children’s Hospital and Regional Medical Center / Catherine Fiona Macpherson | Nurse Researcher Grants | 2008 | Washington |
| The Role of DNA Methylation in Pediatric Cancer | Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center / Scott Diede | Young Investigator Grants | 2010 | Washington |
| Restoring RUNX1 Levels in FPD/AML | University of Washington, Seattle / Marshall Horwitz, MD/PhD | RARE Grant Program (Research Accelerating RUNX1 Exploration) | 2016 | Washington |
| Immuno-therapeutic Targeting of CD56 in CBA2T3/GLIS2-AML in Children | Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center / Soheil Meshinchi, MD/PhD | Reach Grants | 2018 | Washington |
| Critical Contributions of CRM1 to Leukemogenesis | University of Vermont / Jessica Linda Heath, MD | Young Investigator Grants | 2015 | Vermont |
| TrkB Signaling in the Genesis of Murine Neuroblastoma | University of Vermont / Rae Nishi, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2007 | Vermont |
| Pharmacogenomics and Drug Screening Lead to a Novel Targeted Therapy with Potent and Specific Activity Against Mouse Models of MYCN-amplified Neuroblastoma | Virginia Commonwealth University / Anthony Faber, MD & Yael Mosse, MD (CHOP) | Innovation Grants | 2015 | Virginia |
| LSD1 Inhibition to Treat T-cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia/Lymphoma | University of Virginia, School of Medicine / Michael Engel, MD/PhD | Reach Grants | 2016 | Virginia |