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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Exploiting the Potential of Bromodomain Inhibitors in Ewing Sarcoma | Seattle Children’s Hospital / Shireen Ganapathi, MD | Young Investigator Grants | 2021 | Washington |
| Targeting Secondary Mutations in Juvenile Myelomonocytic Leukemia | University of California San Francisco / Elliot Stieglitz, MD | Young Investigator Grants | 2015 | California |
| 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 |
| Genomic Alterations in Medulloblastoma | Children’s Hospital Los Angeles / Shahab Asgharzadeh, MD | Young Investigator Grants | 2008 | California |
| Arginine Depletion with DFMO in High-Risk Neuroblastoma | Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia / Christina Turn, MD | Young Investigator Grants | 2023 | Pennsylvania |
| Anthracycline-Induced Cardiac Toxicity in Pediatric Acute Myeloid Leukemia | University of Pennsylvania / Kelly Getz, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2017 | Pennsylvania |
| Reversing the Oncogenic Roles of Misdirected Chromatin Remodeling in Synovial Sarcoma | Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford University School of Medicine / Cigall Kadoch, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2013 | California |
| Bad Influence: EWS/FLI Alters LSD1 and NuRD Interactions to Enforce Oncogenic Function in Ewing’s | Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital / Emily Theisen, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2016 | Ohio |
| Social Determinants of Health, Hospital-level Resources, and Risk of Septic Shock in Pediatric Leukemia | Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia / Jenny Ruiz, MD | Young Investigator Grants | 2021 | Pennsylvania |
| Elucidating Mechanisms Driving Renal Medullary Carcinomas to Deliver a Rational Approach to Cancer Directed Therapy | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute / Andrew Hong, MD | Young Investigator Grants | 2015 | Massachusetts |