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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Identification of Synthetically Immunogenic Compounds to Synergize with Immunotherapy in Neuroblastoma | Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia / Adam Wolpaw, MD/PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2019 | Pennsylvania |
| Vaccine-boosted CAR T cell therapy for high risk neuroblastoma | Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia / Timothy Spear, MD/PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2024 | Pennsylvania |
| Targeting Aberrant Hh Signaling with BET Bromodomain Inhibition as a Novel Therapeutic Strategy Against MB and DIPG | Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford University School of Medicine / Yujie Tang, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2014 | California |
| A CRISPRi Genetic Screen in Ewing sarcoma Identifies a Novel Dependence on Homologous Recombination DNA Repair | University of California San Francisco / Asmin Tulpule, MD/PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2016 | California |
| Identifying Disease Mechanisms and Therapeutic Opportunities in Pediatric Low-grade Gliomas Driven by MYB-QKI Fusions | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute / Cecile Rouleau, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2017 | Massachusetts |
| Enhancing the therapeutic efficacy of chimeric antigen receptor T cells for acute myeloid leukemia | Washington University / Miriam Kim, MD | Young Investigator Grants | 2019 | Missouri |
| In vivo transdermal generation of CD33 CAR T-cells towards acute myeloid leukemia | University of California, Los Angeles / Ruby Sims, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2024 | California |
| High-throughput CAR NKT Library Screen for Improving Neuroblastoma Immunotherapy | Baylor College of Medicine / Xavier Rios, MD/PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2020 | Texas |
| The Role of Metabolism in MLL-AF9 Leukemia Initiation | Massachusetts General Hospital / Rushdia Yusuf | Young Investigator Grants | 2010 | Massachusetts |
| Targeted Therapy for Core Binding Factor Leukemia | University of Massachusetts Medical School / John Pulikkan, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2014 | Massachusetts |