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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ECM-targeted CAR T-cell therapy for high-grade glioma | St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital / Jessica Wagner, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2019 | Tennessee |
| Improving CAR T-Cell Therapy for Pediatric Osteosarcoma by Manipulating Arginine Metabolism | St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital / Shannon Lange, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2019 | Tennessee |
| CD36-Sphingosine 1-Phosphate Axis in Osteosarcoma Progression | Medical University of South Carolina / Meenal Mehrotra, MD/PhD | Innovation Grants | 2019 | South Carolina |
| Identifying targeted treatments for DICER1-associated sarcomas | Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre / William Foulkes, MD/PhD & Sidong Huang, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2019 | Quebec |
| Elucidating the Role of SETD2 in Pediatric High Grade Glioma Formation | Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia / Thomas De Raedt, PhD | 'A' Award Grants | 2019 | Pennsylvania |
| Identify Novel Druggable Targets to Treat Philadelphia chromosome-like B-Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia | Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia / Wei Tong, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2019 | Pennsylvania |
| Bcl2-Family Inhibitors in Neuroblastoma: Mechanism of Action, Therapy Resistance, and Development of Biomarkers | Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia / Claudia Zapata, MD | Young Investigator Grants | 2019 | Pennsylvania |
| Single-cell Profiling of Early T-cell Precursor Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia | Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia / David Teachey, MD and Kai Tan, PhD | Single-cell Pediatric Cancer Atlas Grant | 2019 | Pennsylvania |
| Novel Genomic Drivers in Pediatric Polyposis Syndromes | Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia / Suzanne MacFarland, MD | Young Investigator Grants | 2019 | Pennsylvania |
| Identification of Synthetically Immunogenic Compounds to Synergize with Immunotherapy in Neuroblastoma | Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia / Adam Wolpaw, MD/PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2019 | Pennsylvania |