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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Empowering specificity of AML immunotherapies by HSC engineering | Boston Children’s Hospital / Pietro Genovese | Catalyst Grants | 2023 | Massachusetts |
| A Genomics Driven Pluripotent Stem Cell Model of Infant Lymphoblastic Leukemia | Children's Mercy Hospital Kansas City / Meagan Vacek, DO | Catalyst Grants | 2023 | Missouri |
| 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 |
| Empowering specificity of AML immunotherapies by HSC engineering | Aflac Cancer Center and Blood Disorders Service of Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta / Pietro Genovese | Catalyst Grants | 2023 | Georgia |
| Characterization of Pre-Leukemia Associated with Familial RUNX1 Mutations | Stanford University / Ravi Majeti, MD/PhD | RARE Grant Program (Research Accelerating RUNX1 Exploration) | 2016 | California |
| Modeling RUNX1-Associated Clonal Hematopoietic Disorders in Zebrafish | Boston Children’s Hospital / Leonard Zon, MD | RARE Grant Program (Research Accelerating RUNX1 Exploration) | 2016 | Massachusetts |
| Modeling familial platelet disorder associated RUNX1 mutations in mice | University of Massachusetts Medical School / Lucio Castilla, PhD | RARE Grant Program (Research Accelerating RUNX1 Exploration) | 2020 | Massachusetts |
| Drug Screen for FPD/AML Therapeutics | Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia / Mortimer Poncz, MD | RARE Grant Program (Research Accelerating RUNX1 Exploration) | 2017 | Pennsylvania |
| Identifying Therapeutic Targets to Prevent Progression of Familial RUNX1 Disorder to AML Using Novel iPSC Models | Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai / Eirini Papapetrou, MD/PhD | RARE Grant Program (Research Accelerating RUNX1 Exploration) | 2016 | New York |
| Therapeutic targeting of clonal hematopoiesis in RUNX1 mutant FPDMM | University of Pennsylvania / Robert Bowman, Ph.D. | RARE Grant Program (Research Accelerating RUNX1 Exploration) | 2024 | Pennsylvania |