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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Desmoplastic Small Round Cell Tumors: Investigation of its Pathogenesis and Development of Novel Therapies | Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center / Andrea Ventura, MD, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2023 | New York |
| Pre-Targeted Radioimmunotherapy for Desmoplastic Small Round Cell Tumors | Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center / Madelyn Espinosa-Cotton, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2023 | New York |
| Immunoglobulin High-Throughput Sequencing for Refining Risk Stratification in Infant B-ALL | University of Rochester / Carol Fries Simpson, MD | Reach Grants | 2023 | New York |
| Unraveling the Function of PAX3-FOXO1’s Activation Domain in Rhabdomyosarcoma | Case Western Reserve University / Berkley Gryder, PhD | 'A' Award Grants | 2023 | Ohio |
| Creating an Infrastructure for Collaborative Clinical Research and Publication of Consensus Guidelines for RUNX1 Familial Platelet Disorder | The Cleveland Clinic Foundation / Brittany Stewart, PhD | RUNX1 Early Career Investigator Grants | 2023 | Ohio |
| Targeting the Checkpoint Receptor TIGIT via CRISPR/Cas9 Genome Editing to Enhance NK Cell Anti-Tumor Activity | Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital / Amanda Campbell, MD/PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2023 | Ohio |
| Radiation and the Tumor Microenvironment in an Immunocompetent Model of Ewing Sarcoma | Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh Foundation / Jessica Daley, MD | Young Investigator Grants | 2023 | Pennsylvania |
| Arginine Depletion with DFMO in High-Risk Neuroblastoma | Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia / Christina Turn, MD | Young Investigator Grants | 2023 | Pennsylvania |
| The Role of the Innate Immune System in Immune Dysregulation following CART | Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia / Caroline Diorio, MD | 'A' Award Grants | 2023 | Pennsylvania |
| Uncovering the signaling mechanisms allowing medulloblastoma progenitor cells to orchestrate tumor relapse | Medical University of South Carolina / Jezabel Rodriguez Blanco, PhD | 'A' Award Grants | 2023 | South Carolina |