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 1,000 funded projects below.
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ALSF Funded Research Projects
| Project Title | Institution / Principal Investigator(s) |
Grant Type |
Year | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Role of Myosin VI in Pediatric Glioma Proliferation and Invasion | University of Pennsylvania / Monalisa Mukherjea | Young Investigator Grants | 2012 | Pennsylvania |
| Identification of Alveolar Rhabdomyosarcoma "Achilles' Heel" | National Cancer Institute / Fernanda Arnaldez | Young Investigator Grants | 2011 | Maryland |
| Untangling the Matrix in Medulloblastoma | St. Christopher's Hospital for Children / Duncan Stearns, MD | Young Investigator Grants | 2008 | Ohio |
| Investigating Epigenetic Mechanisms of Response to Allogenic CAR T Cell Therapy | St. Jude Children's Research Hospital / Caitlin Zebley, MD/PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2021 | Tennessee |
| The Impact of Hypoxia on Epigenetic Changes in Neuroblastoma | University of Chicago / Sakshi Uppal, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2017 | Illinois |
| Autophagy and mTOR Inhibition in Pediatric Gliomas with BRAF Mutations | University of Colorado Denver / Jean Mulcahy Levy, MD | Young Investigator Grants | 2014 | Colorado |
| Targeted Hyperactivation of PI3K/AKT in B-cell malignancies | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute / Vishal Khairnar, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2019 | Massachusetts |
| The Role of DEF and SSU Processome in Neuroblastoma Pathogenesis | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute / Ting Tao, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2015 | Massachusetts |
| Role of N6-Methyladenosine (m6A) mRNA Modification Pathway in Neuroblastoma | Boston Children's Hospital / Shuibin Lin, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2017 | Massachusetts |
| The Cebpa Downstream Enhancer as a Key Target of Transformation to Acute Myeloid Leukemia | The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine / Stacy Cooper, MD | Young Investigator Grants | 2015 | Maryland |