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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Screening for New Rhabdomyosaroma Pathogenesis Genes in a Drosophila Model | University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center / Kathleen Galindo | Young Investigator Grants | 2012 | Texas |
| Immunotherapy Of Neuroblastoma With Natural Killer T Cells Engineered To Target O-acetyl-GD2 | Baylor College of Medicine / Andras Heczey, MD | Young Investigator Grants | 2014 | Texas |
| Role of Primary Cilium Signaling and Dynamics in Medulloblastoma Initiation and Progression | University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center / Saikat Mukhopadhyay, MD/PhD | 'A' Award Grants | 2016 | Texas |
| Adoptive Cell Therapy Targeting Antigen Escape Variants in Childhood High Grade Glioma | Baylor College of Medicine / Meenakshi Hegde | Young Investigator Grants | 2012 | Texas |
| Pre-Clinical Testing of T cells Coded with CARs for DIPG | University of Texas / Laurence Cooper, MD, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2013 | Texas |
| Strategies for Epigenetically Reprogramming Neuroblastoma Cancer Stem Cells | Baylor College of Medicine / Jason Shohet, MD, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2011 | Texas |
| Parallel sequencing to identify the causes of childhood cancer. | Baylor College of Medicine / Sharon Plon, MD, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2006 | Texas |
| Zebrafish Modeling of PAX3-FOXO1 Driven Rhabdomyosarcoma | University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center / Genevieve Kendall, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2015 | Texas |
| Enhancing the Viability, Function, and Safety, of Genetically-Enhanced NK Cells Within the Solid Tumor Microenvironment With IL-15 and a Suicide Gene | Baylor College of Medicine / Robin Parihar, MD, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2015 | Texas |
| Cell Line and Xenograft Repository | Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center / Patrick Reynolds, MD/PhD | Catalyst Grants | 2014 | Texas |