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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Investigation of Oncogenic Long Non-coding RNAs in Ewing sarcoma | Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford University School of Medicine / Siu Ping Ngok, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2014 | California |
| 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 |
| Therapeutic Targets and Molecular Mechanisms in Childhood Brainstem Tumors | University Health Network - Toronto Western Research Institute / Jerome Fortin, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2019 | Ontario |
| MTG-16 Regulation by Phosphorylation | Vanderbilt University Medical Center / Michael Engel, MD, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2006 | Tennessee |
| E2A translocations in pediatric leukemia: developing new therapeutic targets | Children's Hospital of Philadelphia / Bruce Fischer, MD | Young Investigator Grants | 2007 | Pennsylvania |
| 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 |
| Genomic Alterations in Medulloblastoma | Children's Hospital Los Angeles / Shahab Asgharzadeh, MD | Young Investigator Grants | 2008 | 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 |
| 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 |
| Interrogating the Enhancer Landscapes of Ependymoma to Inform Novel Therapies | Baylor College of Medicine / Stephen Mack, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2016 | Texas |