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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Comprehensive Analysis of Risk Factors for Pediatric Cancers Using the Utah Population Database | Huntsman Cancer Institute / Joshua Schiffman, MD | Epidemiology Grants | 2012 | Utah |
| A novel compound for treatment of T cell leukemia | Huntsman Cancer Institute / Nikolaus Trede | Innovation Grants | 2010 | Utah |
| Identification of predisposition genes for Ewing sarcoma segregating in high-risk pedigrees | Huntsman Cancer Institute / Lisa Cannon-Albright, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2012 | Utah |
| Treatment of high-risk pediatric brain tumors with a CD133-targeted adenovirus in combination with temozolomide | University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center / Marta Alonso, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2008 | Texas |
| Immunotherapy Of Neuroblastoma With Natural Killer T Cells Engineered To Target O-acetyl-GD2 | Baylor College of Medicine / Andras Heczey, MD | Young Investigator Grants | 2014 | Texas |
| Optimizing Engager T-cells for CD19+ Malignancies | Baylor College of Medicine / Mireya Paulina Velasquez, MD | Young Investigator Grants | 2014 | Texas |
| Dissecting and Targeting the Wnt Signaling Pathway in Metastatic Osteosarcoma | Baylor College of Medicine / Jason T. Yustein, MD, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2013 | Texas |
| Genetic Analysis of Pediatric Gliomas | Baylor College of Medicine / Will Parsons, MD, PhD | 'A' Award Grants | 2009 | Texas |
| Pre-Clinical Testing of T cells Coded with CARs for DIPG | University of Texas / Laurence Cooper, MD, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2013 | Texas |
| Synthetic Gene Expression Regulatory Switches (SynGERS) for Improved CAR T Cell Function in Pediatric Solid Tumors | Baylor College of Medicine / Leidy Diana Caraballo Galva, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2023 | Texas |