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 1,000 funded projects below.
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ALSF Funded Research Projects
| Project Title | Institution / Principal Investigator(s) |
Grant Type |
Year | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Therapeutic Targets and Molecular Mechanisms in Childhood Brainstem Tumors | University Health Network - Toronto Western Research Institute / Jerome Fortin, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2019 | Ontario |
| Accessing Combinatorial Effect of PARP Inhibitor with DNA Damaging Agent in Rhabdomyosarcoma at Single Cell Resolution | Massachusetts General Hospital / Chuan Yan, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2018 | Massachusetts |
| Validation of microRNAs as valid targets in a pediatric sarcoma | University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center / Mark Hatley | Young Investigator Grants | 2011 | Texas |
| High-throughput CAR NKT Library Screen for Improving Neuroblastoma Immunotherapy | Baylor College of Medicine / Xavier Rios, MD/PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2020 | Texas |
| Identification and Characterization of an Epigenetic Program that Maintains the Self-Renewal of MLL Myeloid Leukemia Stem Cells | Stanford University / Hon-Kit Wong | Young Investigator Grants | 2010 | California |
| Histone Modification and Hmgn1 Overexpression as Drivers of B-ALL with Polysomy 21 | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute / Andrew Lane, MD, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2013 | Massachusetts |
| Divergent Core Transcriptional Regulatory Circuitries to Highlight Context-Specific Vulnerabilities in AML | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute / Maxim Pimkin, MD/PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2018 | Massachusetts |
| Preclinical Efficacy of Daratumumab in T Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia | New York University School of Medicine / Karen Bride, MD/PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2017 | New York |
| Investigating the Role of Circadian Rhythm in the Progression of Acute Myeloid Leukemia | Boston Children's Hospital / Samantha Morris, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2013 | Massachusetts |
| Generation of a novel oncolytic virus for treatment of pediatric brain tumors. | The Ohio State University / Balveen Kaur, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2007 | Ohio |