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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Improving Immune-Mediated Oncolytic Viral Therapy: Engineering Tumor Vaccine Elements into the Virus | Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital / Kevin Cassady, MD & Christopher Walker, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2016 | Ohio |
| Redefining the Cellular Architecture of Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma through Large-Scale Single-cell RNA-seq Analyses | Massachusetts General Hospital / Mario Suva, MD/PhD | Innovation Grants | 2016 | Massachusetts |
| Modeling Pediatric Spinal Gliomas Using Murine Spinal Neural Stem Cells | The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine / Charles Eberhart, MD/PhD & Eric Raabe MD/PhD | Innovation Grants | 2016 | Maryland |
| Development of an anti-KIR3DL1 Antibody to Promote Innate Immunity Against Neuroblastoma | Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center / Katherine Hsu, MD/PhD & Nai-Kong Cheung, MD/PhD | Innovation Grants | 2016 | New York |
| HOX Genes As Developmental Regulators Of Sarcomagenesis | University of Michigan / Elizabeth Lawlor, MD/PhD & Deneen Wellik, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2016 | Michigan |
| CD47-blocking Oncolytic Vaccinia Viruses as Biotherapeutics for Pediatric Solid Tumors | St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital / Stephen Gottschalk, MD & Nino Rainusso, MD | Innovation Grants | 2016 | Tennessee |
| Targeting MYCN-amplified Neuroblastoma Through RORalpha Activation | Baylor College of Medicine / Eveline Barbiere, MD | Innovation Grants | 2016 | Texas |
| Developing and Distributing a Pediatric Spinal Cord High-grade Glioma Model | Stanford University / Michelle Monje, MD/PhD | Innovation Grants | 2016 | California |
| Enhancing Pediatric Sarcoma Immunotherapy by Drug Induced Expression of Tumor-Specific Cryptic Neoantigens | University of Minnesota / David Largaespada, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2016 | Minnesota |
| Circulating Exosomes as Biomarkers of Medulloblastoma Progression, Metastasis, and Recurrence | Weill Cornell Medical College / David Lyden, MD/PhD & Parveen Raju, MD/PhD | Innovation Grants | 2016 | New York |