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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Characterization of Chromatin Landscapes to Identify Therapeutic Vulnerabilities in Diffuse Midline Gliomas. | Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center / Jay Sarthy, MD/PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2019 | Washington |
| Determining Social Risk Factors for Poor Outcomes in Pediatric Cancer Using Children’s Oncology Group Registries | University of Utah / Anne Kirchhoff, PhD/MPH | Epidemiology Grants | 2019 | Utah |
| Understanding factors contributing to retention in care among children with cancer in sub-Saharan Africa | Baylor College of Medicine / Mark Zobeck, MD, PhD | Psychosocial Launch Grant | 2019 | Texas |
| Pediatric Osteosarcoma: Identifying the elusive molecular signature and its relationship to this disease | St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital / Linda Hendershot, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2019 | Tennessee |
| Single Nuclear RNA-seq and Spatial Transcriptomic Analysis of Anaplastic and Favorable Histology Wilms Tumor | St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital / Andrew Murphy, MD and Xiang Chen, PhD | Single-cell Pediatric Cancer Atlas Grant | 2019 | Tennessee |
| 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 |
| Targeting microenvironment-induced TGFB signaling to overcome drug resistance in acute lymphoblastic leukemia | St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital / Charles Mullighan, MD | Innovation Grants | 2019 | Tennessee |
| Platform development for target identification in high risk pediatric leukemias | St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital / Adolfo A Ferrando, MD/PhD, Charles Mullighan, MD | Crazy 8 Pilots | 2019 | Tennessee |
| Single-cell Profiling of Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia | St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital / Charles Mullighan, MD and Jeffrey Klco, MD/PhD | Single-cell Pediatric Cancer Atlas Grant | 2019 | Tennessee |