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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Characterization and Targeting of Novel Activating BRAF Mutations in Pediatric Brain Tumors | Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia / Angela Waanders, MD, MPH | Young Investigator Grants | 2010 | Pennsylvania |
Dissecting the Hierarchy of Tumor Cell Differentiation Using Dual Recombinase Technology in a Novel Mouse Model of Rhabdomyosarcoma | Duke University Medical Center / David Van Mater, MD, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2013 | North Carolina |
A Role for Non-canonical Wnt/PCP Signaling in Growth and Self-Renewal of Embryonal Rhabdomyosarcoma | Massachusetts General Hospital / Madeline Hayes, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2016 | Massachusetts |
Using Neurofibromatosis-1 (NF1) to understand Pediatric Brain Tumor Initiation | MD Anderson Cancer Center / Yuan Pan, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2020 | Texas |
Exploring a novel immunotherapy: cooperation of endogenous CD8+ t-cells and exogenous, allogeneic CD4+ t-cells. | The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine / Heather Symons | Young Investigator Grants | 2009 | Maryland |
Development of Targeted Therapies in High Risk Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia | Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia / Sarah Tasian | Young Investigator Grants | 2012 | Pennsylvania |
MicroRNAs 100 and 125b in Ewing sarcoma | University of Colorado Denver / Paul Jedlicka | Young Investigator Grants | 2010 | Colorado |
Understanding the Mechanisms of HOX Gene Regulation in Normal and Leukemic Hematopoietic Stem Cells to Identify New Therapies for Pediatric AML | Boston Children’s Hospital / Anne Robertson, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2017 | Massachusetts |
Cooperating Signaling Networks Regulate Cell Survival of Pediatric Ph-like ALL | University of Pennsylvania / Christian Hurtz, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2018 | Pennsylvania |
Aberrant DNA methylation in Ewing sarcoma. | Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center / Scott Borinstein | Young Investigator Grants | 2009 | Washington |