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 1,000 funded projects below.
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ALSF Funded Research Projects
| Project Title | Institution / Principal Investigator(s) |
Grant Type |
Year | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LRP1 and Angiogenesis in Pediatric Malignant Glioma | Mayo Clinic Jacksonville / Takahisa Kanekiyo, MD, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2013 | Florida |
| Genetic Dissection of Cancer Drug Resistance and Toxicity Using Haploid Human Cells | Stanford University / Ramin Dubey, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2015 | California |
| Defining the Mechanism by which LIN28B acts as an Oncogene in Neuroblastoma | Children's Hospital of Philadelphia / Robert Schnepp, MD, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2013 | Pennsylvania |
| Novel Role of Hematopoietic Stem Cells in Immunologic Rejection of Malignant Pediatric Brain Tumors | University of Florida / Catherine Flores, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2015 | Florida |
| Exosomes as Biomarkers to Monitor Disease Progression and Response to Therapy in Ewing sarcoma | Children's Mercy / Glenson Samuel, MD | Young Investigator Grants | 2014 | Missouri |
| The role of PDE4B in Racial Disparities in Outcome of Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia | St. Jude Children's Research Hospital / Jun Yang | Young Investigator Grants | 2010 | Tennessee |
| Dissecting Functional uORFs as a Source of Cancer Genes in High-Risk Medulloblastoma | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute / John Prensner, MD/PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2021 | Massachusetts |
| Using Neurofibromatosis-1 (NF1) to understand Pediatric Brain Tumor Initiation | Stanford University School of Medicine / Yuan Pan, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2020 | California |
| Targeting polycomb-mediated epigenetic silencing in T cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia | Vanderbilt University Medical Center / Emmanuel Volanakis | Young Investigator Grants | 2011 | Tennessee |
| A Developmental Model to Characterize the Epigenetic Origins of the Retinoblastoma Tumor Initiating Cell | The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine / Jeffrey Huo, MD, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2014 | Maryland |