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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Enhancing Effectiveness of Immune Checkpoint Therapy in Neuroblastoma | Children’s Hospital Los Angeles / Shahab Asgharzadeh, MD | Innovation Grants | 2015 | California |
| Histone H3.3 Targeted Therapy for Pediatric High-grade Gliomas | University of California, Davis Medical Center / Paul Knoepfler, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2015 | California |
| Enhanced Drug Repurposing Screen in DSRCT Enabled by New In Vitro and In Vivo Models Based on CRISPR/Cas9 Genome Engineering | Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center / Marc Ladanyi, MD & Maria Jasin, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2015 | New York |
| Integrative Genomic and Immunogenomic Analysis of Neuroblastoma | University of California at Santa Cruz / David Haussler, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2015 | California |
| Functional Analysis and Therapeutic Targeting of STAG2 Mutations in Ewing sarcoma | Georgetown University / Todd Waldman, MD, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2015 | District of Columbia |
| Preclinical Development of Atr Inhibitor VE-822, Delivered Systemically in Nanoparticles, for Medulloblastoma Therapy | University of North Carolina / Timothy Gershon, MD, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2015 | North Carolina |
| Transcriptional Effectors of Activated RAS Signaling in Juvenile Myelomonocytic Leukemia | Boston Children’s Hospital / Alan Cantor, MD, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2015 | Massachusetts |
| Small Molecule Inhibitors of ERG for Pediatric Leukemia and Sarcoma | University of Virginia, School of Medicine / John Bushweller, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2015 | Virginia |
| Enhancing the Viability, Function, and Safety, of Genetically-Enhanced NK Cells Within the Solid Tumor Microenvironment With IL-15 and a Suicide Gene | Baylor College of Medicine / Robin Parihar, MD, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2015 | Texas |
| Functional Dissection of Oncogenic Enhancers in T-ALL | Columbia University / Daniel Herranz, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2015 | New York |