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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GD2-directed CAR T cell therapy for H3K27M+ spinal cord diffuse midline glioma | Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University / Michelle Monje | Catalyst Grants | 2021 | California |
| Hematopoietic Stem And Progenitor Cells Sustain Inflammation And Promote Relapse In The AML Niche | Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia / Ding-Wen (Roger) Chen, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2021 | Pennsylvania |
| Hematopoietic stem cell function in familial platelet disorder therapy | University of Massachusetts Medical School / Lucio Castilla, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2021 | Massachusetts |
| In-vivo characterization of MYCN-driven immunosuppression | University of California San Francisco / William Weiss, MD/PhD | Innovation Grants | 2021 | California |
| IND-Enabling Studies for WNTinib, a Novel Selective Therapeutic for CTNNB1 Mutant Hepatoblastomas | Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai / Ernesto Guccione, PhD & Josep Llovet, MD & Arvin Dar, PhD | Reach Grants | 2021 | New York |
| Investigating Epigenetic Mechanisms of Response to Allogenic CAR T Cell Therapy | St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital / Caitlin Zebley, MD/PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2021 | Tennessee |
| Loss of ER-mitochondria contacts drives therapy resistance in neuroblastoma | Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia / Michael Hogarty, MD | Innovation Grants | 2021 | Pennsylvania |
| Neural Crest Gene Regulatory Networks Underlying Normal Meningeal Development and Onset of Meningioma | California Institute of Technology / Ayyappa Raja Desingu Rajan, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2021 | California |
| Novel Genomic Diagnostics for Intracranial Germ Cell Tumors | Connecticut Children’s Medical Center Foundation, Inc. / Ching Lau, MD/PhD | Reach Grants | 2021 | Connecticut |
| Novel targeting approach for pediatric B-cell malignancies | Thomas Jefferson University / Christine Eischen, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2021 | Pennsylvania |