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 of a putative unresolved wound healing process in childhood ependymoma | University of Colorado Denver / Nicholas Foreman, MD | Innovation Grants | 2024 | Colorado |
| Development of CAR-T therapy for Ewing sarcoma using zebrafish in vivo models | Children’s Hospital Los Angeles / James Amatruda, MD/PhD | Innovation Grants | 2024 | California |
| MYCN-induced molecular clock disruption and metabolic rewiring drive neuroblastoma | Baylor College of Medicine / Lingzhi Li, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2024 | Texas |
| Capitalizing on functional genomics with targeted protein degradation in neuroblastoma | St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital / Ian Delahunty, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2024 | Tennessee |
| Modifying CAR T cell epigenetic programs to improve therapy against aggressive pediatric brain tumors | St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital / Meghan Ward, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2024 | Tennessee |
| Exploiting a Novel DNA Repair Defect in Ewing Sarcoma | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute / Shuhei Asada, MD/PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2024 | Massachusetts |
| The influence of the raphe nucleus and serotonin on progression of diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma | Stanford University / Richard Drexler, MD/PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2024 | California |
| Development of allogeneic off-the-shelf gamma delta T cell product for pediatric AML | Baylor College of Medicine / Norihiro Watanabe, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2024 | Texas |
| DMG: From SWI/SNF’s role in cholesterol biosynthesis to new therapeutic opportunities | Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University / Capucine Van Rechem, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2024 | California |
| Development of New Approaches to Target MAP Kinase Pathway in RAS-driven Rhabdomyosarcoma | University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio / Angelina Vaseva, PhD | R Accelerated Award Grants | 2023 | Texas |