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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stapled Peptide PROTAC: A 3-in-1 Treatment for Pediatric Solid Tumors | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute / Loren Walensky, MD/PhD | Reach Grants | 2021 | Massachusetts |
| The Interplay Between Histone Mutations and Replication Stress in Shaping Glioma Phenotypes | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute / Pratiti Bandopadhayay, PhD | 'A' Award Grants | 2021 | Massachusetts |
| Role of PHF6 Mutations in Germline RUNX1 Deficiency Associated Hematopoietic Disorders | Boston Children's Hospital / Serine Avagyan, MD/PhD | RUNX1 Early Career Investigator Grants | 2021 | Massachusetts |
| Characterizing Inflammatory Phenotypes Associated with RUNX1 Deficiency | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute / Waihay Wong, MD/PhD | RUNX1 Early Career Investigator Grants | 2021 | Massachusetts |
| Dissecting Functional uORFs as a Source of Cancer Genes in High-Risk Medulloblastoma | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute / John Prensner, MD/PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2021 | Massachusetts |
| Unraveling metabolic dependencies in childhood supratentorial ependymomas. | Regents of the University of Michigan / Sriram Venneti, MD/PhD | Innovation Grants | 2021 | Michigan |
| Optimization of Drug Efflux and Brain Clearance to Improve CED of Targeted Therapy to H3K27M DMG | Mayo Clinic / David Daniels, MD/PhD | Reach Grants | 2021 | Minnesota |
| Targeting CCAAT/enhancer binding proteins CEBPB and CEBPD in neuroblastoma | Columbia University / Darrell Yamashiro, MD/PhD | Innovation Grants | 2021 | New York |
| Targeting tumor associated macrophages in metastatic Ewing sarcoma (ES) | New York Medical College / Mitchell Cairo, MD | Innovation Grants | 2021 | New York |
| A leukemia organoid platform for dissection and targeting of tumor-niche interactions | Columbia Institute for Cancer Genetics / Adolfo Ferrando, MD/PhD | Innovation Grants | 2021 | New York |