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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Molecular characterization of OTX2 as a novel therapeutic target. | Duke University Medical Center / Hai Yan, MD | Innovation Grants | 2006 | North Carolina |
Therapeutic Targeting of LARG-RhoA Signaling Axis in Childhood Leukemia | Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center / Yi Zheng, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2013 | Ohio |
DICER1-Driven Cancers: Models, Mechanisms and Therapies | University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas / James Amatruda, MD/PhD | Innovation Grants | 2016 | Texas |
Studying the clonal dynamics and evolution of leukemia using molecular barcodes | Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford University School of Medicine / Matthew Porteus, MD, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2011 | California |
Therapies for SHH-subtype Medulloblastoma | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute / Rosalind Segal, M.D., Ph.D. | Innovation Grants | 2014 | Massachusetts |
Olfactory Ensheathing Cells for Pediatric Glioma Gene/Cell Therapy | Massachusetts General Hospital / Bakhos Tannous, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2018 | Massachusetts |
Developing Novel Transcription Factor PROTACs to Disrupt the HMGA1 Epigenome in Relapsed Leukemia | Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai / Linda Resar, MD and Jian Jin, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2022 | New York |
Using Splice Switching Oligonucleotides (SSOs) to target MDM2 for rhabdomyosarcoma therapy | Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital / Dawn Chandler, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2019 | Ohio |
Enhancing Immunotherapy of Neuroblastoma | The Regents of the University of California, San Diego / Alice Yu, MD/PhD & Mitchell Diccianni, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2016 | California |
Blockade of MYCN in neuroblastoma | University of California San Francisco / William Weiss, MD/PhD | Innovation Grants | 2011 | California |