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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Targeting a Novel Epigenetic Signature in Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Gliomas | New York University School of Medicine / Danny Reinberg, PhD | Reach Grants | 2019 | New York |
| Platform development for target identification in high risk pediatric leukemias | Columbia University / Adolfo A Ferrando, MD/PhD, Charles Mullighan, MD | Crazy 8 Pilots | 2019 | New York |
| Developing drugs to treat NT5C2 mediated resistance in pediatric ALL | New York University School of Medicine / William Carroll, MD | Innovation Grants | 2019 | New York |
| Single-cell Gene Expression and Cytosine Modification Profiling in Pediatric Central Nervous System Tumors | Dartmouth College / Brock Christensen, PhD | Single-cell Pediatric Cancer Atlas Grant | 2019 | New Hampshire |
| Role of the macro lncRNA KCNQ1OT1 in embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma tumorigenesis | Duke University / Corinne Linardic, MD/PhD | Innovation Grants | 2019 | North Carolina |
| Enhancing the therapeutic efficacy of chimeric antigen receptor T cells for acute myeloid leukemia | Washington University / Miriam Kim, MD | Young Investigator Grants | 2019 | Missouri |
| The Role of Germline Variants in Infant Leukemogenesis | Washington University / Margaret Ferris, MD/PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2019 | Missouri |
| Defining the Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Pediatric Brain Tumor Penetrance | Washington University / Nicole Brossier, MD/PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2019 | Missouri |
| Therapeutic Targeting of the Disrupted Metabolic State in DIPG | University of Michigan / Costas Lyssiotis, PhD & Sriram Venneti, MD/PhD | Innovation Grants | 2019 | Michigan |
| Modeling H3 G34R and BCOR-Altered Glioma Pathogenesis Using Neural Stem Cells | The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine / Satoshi Nakata, MD/PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2019 | Maryland |