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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dissecting the role and mechanism of MLLT10 fusion proteins to treat pediatric leukemia | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania / Kathy Fange Liu, Ph.D. | R Accelerated Award Grants | 2024 | Pennsylvania |
| Overcoming Menin-inhibitor resistance | Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia / Kathrin Bernt, MD | Reach Grants | 2024 | Pennsylvania |
| 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 |
| Vaccine-boosted CAR T cell therapy for high risk neuroblastoma | Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia / Timothy Spear, MD/PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2024 | Pennsylvania |
| IGFBPL1 Peptide-Centric Chimeric Antigen Receptor Autologous T Cells for Relapsed HLA-A*02 Neuroblastoma and Medulloblastoma | Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia / John Maris, MD | Reach Grants | 2024 | Pennsylvania |
| Capitalizing on functional genomics with targeted protein degradation in neuroblastoma | St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital / Ian Delahunty, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2024 | Tennessee |
| Modifying CAR T cell epigenetic programs to improve therapy against aggressive pediatric brain tumors | St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital / Meghan Ward, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2024 | Tennessee |
| Translating sarcoma antigen-directed co-stimulatory NK cells to the clinic | Baylor College of Medicine / Robin Parihar | Reach Grants | 2024 | Texas |
| Systematic screening of receptor pairs combinations for improving solid tumor cancer immunotherapy | Baylor College of Medicine / Xavier Rios, MD/PhD | 'A' Award Grants | 2024 | Texas |
| The role of tissue kallikrein 1 in hematopoietic stem cell transplant-associated thrombotic microangiopathy | Baylor College of Medicine / Sarah Sartain, MD | Innovation Grants | 2024 | Texas |