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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Child's Exposure to Radiation from Medical Imaging and the Risk of Childhood Leukemia: Pooled Analyses from the Childhood Leukemia International Consortium (CLIC) | University of California Berkeley / Catherine Metayer, MD/PhD & Steve Selvin, PhD | Epidemiology Grants | 2016 | California |
| Investigating Racial Disparities in Pediatric Acute Leukemia | University of California San Francisco / Lena Winestone, MD | Young Investigator Grants | 2016 | California |
| Targeting Eya2 to Inhibit c-Myc driven Medulloblastoma Tumor Progression | University of Colorado Denver / Melanie Vincent, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2016 | Colorado |
| Elucidating the Role of Human FAN1 Nuclease in DNA Crosslink Repair | Yale School of Medicine / Timsi Rao, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2016 | Connecticut |
| An Engineered Nanoimmunotherapy for Treating Neuroblastoma | George Washington University / Rohan Fernandes, PhD | 'A' Award Grants | 2016 | District of Columbia |
| Pharmacologic Enhancement of Residual Wild Type RUNX1 Protein Activity in FPD/AML | Boston Children’s Hospital / Alan Cantor, MD, PhD | RARE Grant Program (Research Accelerating RUNX1 Exploration) | 2016 | Massachusetts |
| Targeted Inhibition of Lin28/let-7 Binding to Treat Pediatric Malignancy | Boston Children’s Hospital / George Q. Daley, MD/PhD | Innovation Grants | 2016 | Massachusetts |
| Modeling RUNX1-Associated Clonal Hematopoietic Disorders in Zebrafish | Boston Children’s Hospital / Leonard Zon, MD | RARE Grant Program (Research Accelerating RUNX1 Exploration) | 2016 | Massachusetts |
| The Role of ARID1A in Neuroblastoma Pathogenesis | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute / Hui Shi, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2016 | Massachusetts |
| Molecular Basis of ALK Inhibition Resistance in High-risk Neuroblastoma | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute / David Debruyne, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2016 | Massachusetts |