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 |
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Small Molecule Degraders for Targeting Transcription Factor Drivers of Childhood Cancers | St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital / Charles G. Mullighan, MBBS(Hons), MSc, MD, FRACP, FRCPA | Crazy 8 Awards | 2020 | Tennessee |
Understanding and inhibiting mechanisms of metastatic spread in osteosarcoma | University of California San Francisco / Alejandro Sweet-Cordero, MD | Crazy 8 Awards | 2022 | California |
Tracking Ewing Sarcoma Origin by Developmental and Trans-species Genomics | St. Anna Children’s Cancer Research Institute / Heinrich Kovar, PhD | Crazy 8 Awards | 2020 | |
Barcoding Pediatric Leukemia for Therapeutic Purposes | Boston Children’s Hospital / Leonard Zon, MD | Crazy 8 Awards | 2020 | Massachusetts |
Dissecting Microenvironmental Interactions in Pediatric High-Grade Gliomas that Promote Tumor Growth | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute / Mariella G. Filbin, MD/PhD | Crazy 8 Pilots | 2019 | Massachusetts |
Live-Cell Surface Proteomic Characterization of Atypical Teratoid Rhabdoid Tumors Using High Throughout Multi-Color Flow | University of Colorado Denver / Siddhartha S. Mitra, PhD | Crazy 8 Pilots | 2019 | Colorado |
Overcoming Obstacles to Drug Development in Pediatric Cancer | Stanford University School of Medicine / Crystal L. Mackall, MD | Crazy 8 Pilots | 2019 | California |
Platform development for target identification in high risk pediatric leukemias | St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital / Adolfo A Ferrando, MD/PhD, Charles Mullighan, MD | Crazy 8 Pilots | 2019 | Tennessee |
Targeting Fusion-driven Sarcomas | National Institutes of Health / Javed Khan, MD | Crazy 8 Pilots | 2019 | Maryland |
Targeting the Surface-ome of Embryonal Brain Tumors | Institut Curie / Olivier Ayrault, PhD | Crazy 8 Pilots | 2019 |