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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Micro-environmental Regulators of Ewing sarcoma Metastasis | University of Pittsburgh / Kelly Bailey, MD/PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2016 | 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 |
| Epigenomic Mechanisms of Neuroblastoma Tumorigenesis | Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia / Jo Lynne Harenza, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2017 | Pennsylvania |
| PRL3 as a Novel Therapeutic Target for Relapsed T-cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia | Massachusetts General Hospital / Jessica Blackburn, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2013 | Massachusetts |
| Modeling GATA2 Associated MDS/AML Predisposition Syndrome Using Color-Barcoding and Mutagenesis in Zebrafish | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute / Serine Avagyan, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2018 | Massachusetts |
| Using zebrafish to model the molecular origins of pediatric myeloid malignancies and acute myeloid leukemia | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute / Evisa Gjini | Young Investigator Grants | 2011 | Massachusetts |
| In vivo transdermal generation of CD33 CAR T-cells towards acute myeloid leukemia | University of California, Los Angeles / Ruby Sims, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2024 | California |
| The Role of Germline Variants in Infant Leukemogenesis | Washington University / Margaret Ferris, MD/PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2019 | Missouri |
| End-of-Life Care of Children with Cancer: Variation and Stakeholder Priorities | University of Alabama at Birmingham / Emily Johnston, MD | Young Investigator Grants | 2017 | Alabama |
| Dissecting the Mechanism of Overgrowth and Tumorigenesis in Beckwith-Wiedemann Syndrome | University of Pennsylvania / Jennifer Kalish, MD, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2013 | Pennsylvania |