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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Modeling familial platelet disorder associated RUNX1 mutations in mice | University of Massachusetts Medical School / Lucio Castilla, PhD | RARE Grant Program (Research Accelerating RUNX1 Exploration) | 2020 | Massachusetts |
| Pharmacologic Enhancement of Residual Wild Type RUNX1 Protein Activity in FPD/AML | Boston Children’s Hospital / Alan Cantor, MD, PhD | RARE Grant Program (Research Accelerating RUNX1 Exploration) | 2016 | Massachusetts |
| Therapeutic targeting of clonal hematopoiesis in RUNX1 mutant FPDMM | University of Pennsylvania / Robert Bowman, Ph.D. | RARE Grant Program (Research Accelerating RUNX1 Exploration) | 2024 | Pennsylvania |
| Role of Inflammatory Microenvironment in Clonal evolution and Progression from FPD to AML | Oregon Health & Science University / Anupriya Agarwal, PhD | RARE Grant Program (Research Accelerating RUNX1 Exploration) | 2017 | Oregon |
| 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 |
| A Genomics Driven Pluripotent Stem Cell Model of Infant Lymphoblastic Leukemia | Children's Mercy Hospital Kansas City / Meagan Vacek, DO | Catalyst Grants | 2023 | Missouri |
| Empowering specificity of AML immunotherapies by HSC engineering | Aflac Cancer Center and Blood Disorders Service of Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta / Pietro Genovese | Catalyst Grants | 2023 | Georgia |
| Cell Line and Xenograft Repository | Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center / Patrick Reynolds, MD/PhD | Catalyst Grants | 2014 | Texas |
| Targeting Spinal Ependymoma and Other Gliomas Using Novel Genetically Defined Models | The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine / Charles Eberhart, MD, PhD | Catalyst Grants | 2019 | Maryland |
| Development of a comprehensive liquid biopsy-based genomics platform for pediatric solid tumors | Children’s Hospital Los Angeles / Jaclyn Biegel | Catalyst Grants | 2023 | California |