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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Widening the therapeutic index for pediatric medulloblastoma by targeting BET proteins | Harvard University / Kristopher Sarosiek, Ph.D. | R Accelerated Award Grants | 2024 | Massachusetts |
| Vaccine-boosted CAR T cell therapy for high risk neuroblastoma | Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia / Timothy Spear, MD/PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2024 | Pennsylvania |
| Utilizing chromatin directed inhibitors to regulate gene expression in Ewing sarcoma for therapeutic benefit | University of North Carolina / Justin Sperlazza, MD/PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2024 | North Carolina |
| Uridine is a Targetable Metabolic Dependency in Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia | Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University / Kara Davis, D.O. | R Accelerated Award Grants | 2024 | California |
| Unraveling the Mechanisms of Inherited Predisposition to Childhood Leukemia | Boston Children’s Hospital / Vijay Sankaran, MD/PhD | Innovation Grants | 2024 | Massachusetts |
| Unraveling GABAergic interneuron-like lineage in H3G34-mutant hemispheric high-grade gliomas: their impact on network formation and invasion | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute / Gustavo Alencastro Veiga Cruzeiro, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2024 | Massachusetts |
| Understanding the role of CDK8 in protein synthesis for treating MYC-driven medulloblastoma | University of Colorado Denver / Dong Wang, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2024 | Colorado |
| Uncovering new approaches to target FOXR2 in pediatric cancers | Children’s Hospital Los Angeles / Jessica Tsai, MD/PhD | 'A' Award Grants | 2024 | California |
| Translating sarcoma antigen-directed co-stimulatory NK cells to the clinic | Baylor College of Medicine / Robin Parihar | Reach Grants | 2024 | Texas |
| Translating sarcoma antigen-directed co-stimulatory NK cells to the clinic | Baylor College of Medicine / Robin Parihar, MD/PhD | Reach Grants | 2024 | Texas |