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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Identifying Drug Resistant Mutations in Ph-like Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia | University of California San Francisco / Mignon Loh, M.D. | Innovation Grants | 2014 | California |
Role of LMO1 in Neuroblastoma Initiation and Maintenance: Analysis in the Zebrafish model of Childhood Neuroblastoma | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute / Thomas Look, M.D. | Innovation Grants | 2014 | Massachusetts |
Correction of Hematopoietic Defects in Down Syndrome by Chromosome 21 Silencing | University of Massachusetts Medical School / Peter Newburger, M.D. | Innovation Grants | 2014 | Massachusetts |
Trib2 in the Pathogenesis of T-ALL | University of Pennsylvania / Warren Pear, M.D., Ph.D., | Innovation Grants | 2014 | Pennsylvania |
Targeting Tumor Suppressor MicroRNAs in Pediatric Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia | The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine / Linda Resar, M.D. | Innovation Grants | 2014 | Maryland |
Therapies for SHH-subtype Medulloblastoma | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute / Rosalind Segal, M.D., Ph.D. | Innovation Grants | 2014 | Massachusetts |
The Tumor Suppressive Role of LNK (SH2B3) in Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia | Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia / Wei Tong, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2014 | Pennsylvania |
Targeting the Accomplices of MYC in MYC-driven Medulloblastoma | Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute / Robert Wechsler-Reya, Ph.D. | Innovation Grants | 2014 | California |
Modeling Juvenile Myelomonocytic Leukemia with Patient-Derived Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells | Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia / Mitchell Weiss, M.D., Ph.D. | Innovation Grants | 2014 | Pennsylvania |
Targeting eEF2 Kinase in Neuroblastoma | University of California San Francisco / William Weiss, M.D., Ph.D. | Innovation Grants | 2014 | California |
Development of Targeted Leukemia Inhibitors Using Nanoparticle Delivery | University of Massachusetts Medical School / Lucio Castilla, Ph.D. | Innovation Grants | 2014 | Massachusetts |
Exploiting Epigenetic Dependencies of Notch1 for Clinical Benefit | University of Colorado Denver / Patricia Ernst, Ph.D. | Innovation Grants | 2014 | Colorado |
Mechanisms and Targeted Inhibition of NT5C2 Mutations in Relapsed ALL | Columbia University / Adolfo A. Ferrando, M.D., Ph.D. | Innovation Grants | 2014 | New York |
Targeting the Six1/Eya Transcriptional Complex to Inhibit Pediatric Sarcomas | University of Colorado Denver / Heide Ford, Ph.D. | Innovation Grants | 2014 | Colorado |
Converting the Glioblastoma Multiforme Tumor-Associated Macrophage Phenotype | The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine / Alan D. Friedman, M.D. | Innovation Grants | 2014 | Maryland |
Targeting MYC/MYCN-driven Transcriptional Amplification in Pediatric Cancer | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute / Rani George, M.D., Ph.D. | Innovation Grants | 2014 | Massachusetts |
Development of AAV Vectors for Efficient Targeting and Elimination of Osteosarcoma Tumor-Initiating Cells | University of Florida / Steven Ghivizzani, Ph.D. | Innovation Grants | 2014 | Florida |
Two-pronged Cell Therapy: Engineering T Cells to Redirect Bystander T- and NK-Cells to Pediatric Cancer | Baylor College of Medicine / Stephen Gottschalk, M.D. | Innovation Grants | 2014 | Texas |
Developing Personalized (precision) Medicine Strategies to Optimize Pediatric Brain Tumor Management | Washington University / David Gutmann, M.D., Ph.D. | Innovation Grants | 2014 | Missouri |
Modeling the Multi-hit Pathogenesis of t(12;21) Associated Pediatric ALL by CRISPR/Cas-mediated Genome Engineering | Massachusetts General Hospital / Hanno Hock, M.D., Ph.D. | Innovation Grants | 2014 | Massachusetts |
Mechanisms of LGR5 Regulation and Function in Ewing sarcoma Metastasis | University of Michigan / Elizabeth Lawlor, M.D., Ph.D. | Innovation Grants | 2014 | Michigan |