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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prospective Symptom Assessment in Children with Advanced Cancer | University of Wisconsin - Madison / Kathleen Montgomery, PhD & Jennifer Madden, RN/MSN | Nurse Researcher Grants | 2015 | Wisconsin |
| Circadian Rhythms, Fatigue and Bright Light Therapy in Adolescent Cancer Survivors | University of Maryland, College Park / Valerie E. Rogers, PhD | Nurse Researcher Grants | 2015 | Maryland |
| The Role of DEF and SSU Processome in Neuroblastoma Pathogenesis | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute / Ting Tao, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2015 | Massachusetts |
| Novel Nanoscale Phosphoproteomic Discovery of Therapeutic Targets in AML Stem Cells | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute / Leo Wang, MD, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2015 | Massachusetts |
| Targeting Secondary Mutations in Juvenile Myelomonocytic Leukemia | University of California San Francisco / Elliot Stieglitz, MD | Young Investigator Grants | 2015 | California |
| Enhancing the Viability, Function, and Safety, of Genetically-Enhanced NK Cells Within the Solid Tumor Microenvironment With IL-15 and a Suicide Gene | Baylor College of Medicine / Robin Parihar, MD, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2015 | Texas |
| CAMKV as a Target for Immunotherapy in MYCN-Amplified Neuroblastoma | Children's Hospital of Philadelphia / Robyn Sussman, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2015 | Pennsylvania |
| A Translational Approach to Identify Drugs with Specific Activity Against EZH2 Mutant High Risk T-ALLs and ETP ALLs that Overexpress the JDP2 bZIP Transcription Factor | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute / Shuning He, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2015 | Massachusetts |
| The Cebpa Downstream Enhancer as a Key Target of Transformation to Acute Myeloid Leukemia | The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine / Stacy Cooper, MD | Young Investigator Grants | 2015 | Maryland |
| The Role of PARP3 in the Formation of Chromosomal Translocations | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute / Tovah Day, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2015 | Massachusetts |