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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Investigating phase separated condensates in FPD to MDS/AML progression | Broad Institute / Zuzana Tothova, MD/PhD | RUNX1 Early Career Investigator Grants | 2019 | Massachusetts |
| Using Chemical Genetics to Define the Precise Role of RUNX1 in Transcription and Beyond | Albert Einstein College of Medicine / Kristy Stengel | RUNX1 Early Career Investigator Grants | 2022 | New York |
| Mutagenesis and disease progression in RUNX1 mutant blood stem cells is caused by inflammation-induced hyperactive signaling and supraphysiological mitochondrial ROS | St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital / Dirk Loeffler, PhD | RUNX1 Early Career Investigator Grants | 2023 | Tennessee |
| Characterizing Inflammatory Phenotypes Associated with RUNX1 Deficiency | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute / Waihay Wong, MD/PhD | RUNX1 Early Career Investigator Grants | 2021 | Massachusetts |
| GD2-directed CAR T cell therapy for H3K27M+ spinal cord diffuse midline glioma | Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University / Michelle Monje | Catalyst Grants | 2021 | California |
| Targeting Spinal Ependymoma and Other Gliomas Using Novel Genetically Defined Models | The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine / Charles Eberhart, MD, PhD | Catalyst Grants | 2019 | Maryland |
| Development of a comprehensive liquid biopsy-based genomics platform for pediatric solid tumors | Children’s Hospital Los Angeles / Jaclyn Biegel | Catalyst Grants | 2023 | California |
| Empowering specificity of AML immunotherapies by HSC engineering | Boston Children’s Hospital / Pietro Genovese | Catalyst Grants | 2023 | Massachusetts |
| Cell Line and Xenograft Repository | Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center / Patrick Reynolds, MD/PhD | Catalyst Grants | 2014 | Texas |
| A Genomics Driven Pluripotent Stem Cell Model of Infant Lymphoblastic Leukemia | Children's Mercy Hospital Kansas City / Meagan Vacek, DO | Catalyst Grants | 2023 | Missouri |