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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Generation of a novel oncolytic virus for treatment of pediatric brain tumors. | The Ohio State University / Balveen Kaur, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2007 | Ohio |
| Targeting Glutamine Metabolism in MYC Driven Atypical Teratoid Rhabdoid Tumors | The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine / Jeffrey Rubens, MD | Young Investigator Grants | 2017 | Maryland |
| Determinants of Testicular Germ Cell Tumor Platinum Sensitivity and Resistance | University of California, San Diego / Paolo Abada | Young Investigator Grants | 2012 | California |
| Therapeutic Targeting of Childhood Leukemia by Pharmacological Inhibition of Proteolytic Cleavage of MLL1 | Northwestern University (Illinois) / Zibo Zhao, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2018 | Illinois |
| GPC2 as an Oncogene and Immunotherapeutic Target in High-risk Neuroblastoma | Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia / Kristopher Bosse, MD | Young Investigator Grants | 2016 | Pennsylvania |
| Identifying Epistatic Suppressors of Oncohistone in Pediatric High-Grade Gliomas | BC Cancer (Provincial Health Services Authority) / Carol Chen, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2020 | British Columbia |
| Hematopoietic Stem And Progenitor Cells Sustain Inflammation And Promote Relapse In The AML Niche | Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia / Ding-Wen (Roger) Chen, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2021 | Pennsylvania |
| Targeting Protein Translation to Antagonize MYC-driven Neuroblastoma | Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia / Andrea Flynn, MD | Young Investigator Grants | 2017 | Pennsylvania |
| Screening for New Rhabdomyosaroma Pathogenesis Genes in a Drosophila Model | University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center / Kathleen Galindo | Young Investigator Grants | 2012 | Texas |
| Investigating the role of BAI1 in the Metastasis of Medulloblastoma | University of Alabama at Birmingham / Satoru Osuka, MD/PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2018 | Alabama |