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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alternative Splicing Driven by MYCN Activates RAS-MAPK in Neuroblastoma | University of California San Francisco / William Weiss, MD/PhD | Innovation Grants | 2018 | California |
| Targeting the ALT Pathway to Induce Synthetic Lethality and Treat Poor Outcome Pediatric Tumors | University of California, Davis / Wolf-Dietrich Heyer, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2018 | California |
| Modeling and Therapeutic Targeting of p21-Activated Kinase Members in High-Risk Rhabdomyosarcoma | Baylor College of Medicine / Jason Yustein, MD/PhD | Innovation Grants | 2018 | Texas |
| Physical Properties of Drug-Resistant Leukemia Cells | Children’s Hospital Los Angeles / Yong-mi Kim, MD/PhD | Innovation Grants | 2018 | California |
| Circulating Repetitive Element RNAs as an Osteosarcoma Marker | Children’s Hospital Los Angeles / David Cobrinik, MD/PhD | Innovation Grants | 2018 | California |
| Enhancing Communication about Sexual and Reproductive Health between Oncology Clinicians and Adolescent and Young Adults | Connecticut Children’s Medical Center / Dr. Natasha Frederick, PhD | Psychosocial Launch Grant | 2018 | Connecticut |
| Divergent Core Transcriptional Regulatory Circuitries to Highlight Context-Specific Vulnerabilities in AML | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute / Maxim Pimkin, MD/PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2018 | Massachusetts |
| Modeling GATA2 Associated MDS/AML Predisposition Syndrome Using Color-Barcoding and Mutagenesis in Zebrafish | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute / Serine Avagyan, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2018 | Massachusetts |
| MYC-driven Core Regulatory Circuits in Neuroblastoma | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute / Mark Zimmerman, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2018 | Massachusetts |
| Targeting Oncogenic RAS in Pediatric Leukemia | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute / Loren Walensky, MD/PhD | Innovation Grants | 2018 | Massachusetts |