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ALSF Funded Research Projects

Project Title	Institution / Principal Investigator(s)	Grant Type	Year	State
Targeting the Rac GTPase Pathway to Sabotage RAS Signaling in RAS-mutated Leukemia	Boston Children's Hospital / Sara Canovas Nunes, PhD	Young Investigator Grants	2020	Massachusetts
Treatment of high-risk pediatric brain tumors with a CD133-targeted adenovirus in combination with temozolomide	University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center / Marta Alonso, PhD	Young Investigator Grants	2008	Texas
Promoter Hypermethylation in MLL-Rearranged Leukemias: Biology and Therapeutic Targeting	The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine / Eric Schafer	Young Investigator Grants	2010	Maryland
Identifying novel biomarkers for risk stratification in t-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL).	University of California San Francisco / Michelle Hermiston, MD, PhD	Young Investigator Grants	2009	California
Exosomes as Biomarkers to Monitor Disease Progression and Response to Therapy in Ewing sarcoma	Children's Mercy / Glenson Samuel, MD	Young Investigator Grants	2014	Missouri
Optimizing EGFR targeted therapy in pediatric malignant glioma.	University of California San Francisco / Theodore Nicolaides	Young Investigator Grants	2009	California
Identification of Mechanisms of Resistance to Trametinib Monotherapy in PAX-fusion Negative Rhabdomyosarcoma	National Cancer Institute / Marielle Yohe, MD/PhD	Young Investigator Grants	2016	Maryland
Dissecting the Contribution and Inheritance of Germline DNA Damage Repair Gene Mutations in Neuroblastoma	Dana-Farber Cancer Institute / Riaz Gillani, MD	Young Investigator Grants	2021	Massachusetts
Molecular Mechanism and Development of Therapeutic Strategies Targeting MYCN-induced Calcium Signaling in Advanced Neuroblastoma	University of Hawaii at Hilo / Ingo Koomoa-Lange, PhD	Young Investigator Grants	2014	Hawaii
The Role of MiRNA Impairment in Wilms' Tumor Formation	University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas / Kenneth Chen, MD	Young Investigator Grants	2016	Texas

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