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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Selective Epigenetic Regulation of Notch1 in T-cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia | University of Michigan / Mark Yat-Fung Chiang, MD/PhD | Innovation Grants | 2016 | Michigan |
| 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 |
| Pre-clinical Testing of Novel Glutamine Metabolic Inhibitors in MYC-driven Medulloblastoma | The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine / Eric Raabe, MD/PhD & Dr. Barbara Slusher, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2016 | Maryland |
| Image Guided Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma Drug Delivery and Design | Weill Cornell Medical College / Mark Souweidane, MD & Richard Ting, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2016 | New York |
| 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 |
| Enhancing Pediatric Sarcoma Immunotherapy by Drug Induced Expression of Tumor-Specific Cryptic Neoantigens | University of Minnesota / David Largaespada, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2016 | Minnesota |
| Targeting the Function of Ezrin in Rhabdomyosarcoma | The Cleveland Clinic Foundation / Neetu Gupta, PhD & Peter Anderson, MD | Innovation Grants | 2016 | Ohio |
| Sepsis as innate immune stimulus: severe sepsis exposures and protection against relapse in children with acute leukemias | Children's Hospital of Philadelphia / Alix Seif, MD | Epidemiology Grants | 2016 | Pennsylvania |
| Child's Exposure to Radiation from Medical Imaging and the Risk of Childhood Leukemia: Pooled Analyses from the Childhood Leukemia International Consortium (CLIC) | University of California Berkeley / Catherine Metayer, MD/PhD & Steve Selvin, PhD | Epidemiology Grants | 2016 | California |
| An Engineered Nanoimmunotherapy for Treating Neuroblastoma | George Washington University / Rohan Fernandes, PhD | 'A' Award Grants | 2016 | District of Columbia |