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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
The Meaning of Adolescents' Eating Experiences during Bone Marrow Transplant Recovery.	Baylor College of Medicine / Cheryl Rodgers, PhD, RN	Nurse Researcher Grants	2007	Texas
Palliative Care and End-of-Life Communication Experiences of Pediatric Oncology Nurses.	Goldfarb School of Nursing at Barnes Jewish College of Nursing / Verna Hendricks-Ferguson, PhD	Nurse Researcher Grants	2007	Missouri
Exploring the impact of a teen weekend on the quality of life of the adolescent with cancer: A qualitative, case/control study.	The Children's Mercy Hospital / Kristin Stegenga, PhD, RN	Nurse Researcher Grants	2007	Missouri
Factors Influencing the Decision to Provide General Anesthesia or Moderate Sedation for Treatment Related Procedures in Children with Cancer	Children's Hospital of Philadelphia / Elizabeth Ely, PhD, RN	Nurse Researcher Grants	2007	Pennsylvania
A Comparison of Parent and Clinician Reported Toxicities in Standard Radiation Versus Proton Beam Radiation in Children with Posterior Fossa Tumors.	Children's Hospital of Philadelphia / Rosanna Pollack, RN & Cynthia Schmus, RN	Nurse Researcher Grants	2007	Pennsylvania
Saving Lives, Saving Neurons, the Head Start Consortium for Young Children with Malignant Central Nervous System Tumors	Children's Hospital Los Angeles / Jonathan Finlay, MD	Phase I/II Infrastructure Grants	2007	California
An Exploration of the Medulloblastoma and Glioblastoma Genomes: A Critical Analysis of Candidate Cancer Genes as Potential Molecular Targets for Diagnostics and Therapeutics	The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine / Will Parsons, MD, PhD	Young Investigator Grants	2007	Maryland
Immunotherapy for Osteosarcoma and Ewing sarcoma	Baylor College of Medicine / Nabil Ahmed, MD, MSc	Young Investigator Grants	2007	Texas
Generation of a novel oncolytic virus for treatment of pediatric brain tumors.	The Ohio State University / Balveen Kaur, PhD	Young Investigator Grants	2007	Ohio
The Identification of Neuroblastoma Cancer Stem Cells.	Stanford University / Robert Cho	Young Investigator Grants	2007	California

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