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 Mechanisms of Resistance to Trametinib Monotherapy in PAX-fusion Negative Rhabdomyosarcoma | National Cancer Institute / Marielle Yohe, MD/PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2016 | Maryland |
| 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 |
| The Role of ARID1A in Neuroblastoma Pathogenesis | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute / Hui Shi, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2016 | Massachusetts |
| Pre-clinical Evaluation of LSD1 Inhibitors for the Treatment of Pediatric Ewing sarcoma: Defining the Biomarkers of Sensitivity and Mechanisms of Resistance | Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital / Kathleen Pishas, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2016 | Ohio |
| Image Guided Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma Drug Delivery and Design | Weill Cornell Medical College / Mark Souweidane, MD & Richard Ting, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2016 | New York |
| GeneEditing in T cell Leukemia to Promote Immunomodulatory Forms of Cell Death | Boston Children’s Hospital / Dr. Ben Croker, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2016 | Massachusetts |
| Targeting Microenvironmental Support of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia | University of Rochester / Craig Mullen, MD/PhD | Innovation Grants | 2016 | New York |
| MYC as a Driver and Anti-Cancer Target in Malignant Rhabdoid Tumors | Vanderbilt University Medical Center / William Tansey, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2016 | Tennessee |
| Targeting the Function of Ezrin in Rhabdomyosarcoma | The Cleveland Clinic Foundation / Neetu Gupta, PhD & Peter Anderson, MD | Innovation Grants | 2016 | Ohio |
| Selective Epigenetic Regulation of Notch1 in T-cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia | University of Michigan / Mark Yat-Fung Chiang, MD/PhD | Innovation Grants | 2016 | Michigan |