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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Enhancing the Viability, Function, and Safety, of Genetically-Enhanced NK Cells Within the Solid Tumor Microenvironment With IL-15 and a Suicide Gene | Baylor College of Medicine / Robin Parihar, MD, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2015 | Texas |
| RNA Methylation in Metabolically Disrupted Pediatric Cancers | University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio / Patricia Dahia, MD/PhD | Innovation Grants | 2018 | Texas |
| High-throughput CAR NKT Library Screen for Improving Neuroblastoma Immunotherapy | Baylor College of Medicine / Xavier Rios, MD/PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2020 | Texas |
| STAT3 Signaling Profiles Predict Response to Chemotherapy in Pediatric AML | Baylor College of Medicine / Michele Redell, M.D./Ph.D. | Springboard Grants | 2014 | Texas |
| 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 |
| Optimizing Engager T-cells for CD19+ Malignancies | Baylor College of Medicine / Mireya Paulina Velasquez, MD | Young Investigator Grants | 2014 | Texas |
| Strategies for Epigenetically Reprogramming Neuroblastoma Cancer Stem Cells | Baylor College of Medicine / Jason Shohet, MD, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2011 | Texas |
| Screening for New Rhabdomyosaroma Pathogenesis Genes in a Drosophila Model | University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center / Kathleen Galindo | Young Investigator Grants | 2012 | Texas |
| Dissecting and Targeting the Wnt Signaling Pathway in Metastatic Osteosarcoma | Baylor College of Medicine / Jason T. Yustein, MD, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2013 | Texas |
| The role of tissue kallikrein 1 in hematopoietic stem cell transplant-associated thrombotic microangiopathy | Baylor College of Medicine / Sarah Sartain, MD | Innovation Grants | 2024 | Texas |