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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Novel Strategy for Reducing Radiation-Induced Morbidity and Treating Recurrent Medulloblasoma | Massachusetts General Hospital / Rakesh Jain, PhD | Reach Grants | 2013 | Massachusetts |
| DNA Methylation Inhibitor Therapy for Testicular Germ Cell Tumors | University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign / Michael Spinella, Ph.D. | Reach Grants | 2014 | Illinois |
| Identifying Novel Therapeutic Combinations with 131I-MIBG to Treat Relapsed and Refractory Neuroblastoma | The Regents of the University of California San Francisco / William Clay Gustafson, M.D., Ph.D. | Reach Grants | 2014 | California |
| LSD1 Inhibition to Treat T-cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia/Lymphoma | University of Virginia, School of Medicine / Michael Engel, MD/PhD | Reach Grants | 2016 | Virginia |
| Mechanistic and Therapeutic Development of ATM as a Tumor Cell Selective Target for Radiosensitization in H3K27M DMG | The Regents of the University of Michigan / Meredith Morgan, PhD & Daniel Wahl, MD/PhD | Reach Grants | 2022 | Michigan |
| IND-Enabling Studies for WNTinib, a Novel Selective Therapeutic for CTNNB1 Mutant Hepatoblastomas | Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai / Ernesto Guccione, PhD & Josep Llovet, MD & Arvin Dar, PhD | Reach Grants | 2021 | New York |
| Stapled Peptide PROTAC: A 3-in-1 Treatment for Pediatric Solid Tumors | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute / Loren Walensky, MD/PhD | Reach Grants | 2021 | Massachusetts |
| Phase I Study of Lentivirus Engineered Autologous AML Cells Expressing IL-12 in Children and Young Adults with Relapsed AML | Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin - Milwaukee / Michael Burke, MD & Jeffrey Medin, MD/PhD | Reach Grants | 2017 | Wisconsin |
| Optimizing TCRαβ+/CD19+-depleted haploidentical HSCT for ALL using donor-derived genome-edited CAR T cells | Stanford University School of Medicine / Alice Bertaina, MD/PhD | Reach Grants | 2019 | California |
| Targeting Novel Pediatric-Specific FLT3 Mutations | Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center / Soheil Meshinchi, MD,PhD | Reach Grants | 2015 | Washington |