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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pre-clinical Evaluation of LSD1 Inhibitors for the Treatment of Pediatric Ewing sarcoma: Defining the Biomarkers of Sensitivity and Mechanisms of Resistance | Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital / Kathleen Pishas, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2016 | Ohio |
| TLE1 Tumor Suppressor as a Key Regulator of myc Induced Leukemia | Massachusetts General Hospital / Selvi Ramasamy | Young Investigator Grants | 2010 | Massachusetts |
| Accessing Combinatorial Effect of PARP Inhibitor with DNA Damaging Agent in Rhabdomyosarcoma at Single Cell Resolution | Massachusetts General Hospital / Chuan Yan, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2018 | Massachusetts |
| Targeting Oncogenic N-MYC Complexes in High-Risk Neuroblastoma | The Regents of the University of California San Francisco / Bo Qiu, MD/PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2023 | California |
| Zebrafish Modeling of PAX3-FOXO1 Driven Rhabdomyosarcoma | University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center / Genevieve Kendall, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2015 | Texas |
| Genetically Engineered T Cells as Therapy for Pediatric Glioma | Baylor College of Medicine / Giedre Krenciute, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2016 | Texas |
| Investigating the impact of osteosarcoma genetic lesions on bone differentiation | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute / James Morrow, MD/PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2024 | Massachusetts |
| The Impact Of CD56neg NK Cells in the Pathogenesis of Endemic Burkitt Lymphoma | University of Massachusetts Medical School / Catherine Forconi, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2019 | Massachusetts |
| Dissecting Functional uORFs as a Source of Cancer Genes in High-Risk Medulloblastoma | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute / John Prensner, MD/PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2021 | Massachusetts |
| Characterization of the Role of Chromosome 1p Deletion in MYCN-Amplified Neuroblastoma | University of California San Francisco / Miller Huang, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2013 | California |