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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DICER1-Driven Cancers: Models, Mechanisms and Therapies | University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas / James Amatruda, MD/PhD | Innovation Grants | 2016 | Texas |
| Detection of Circulating Tumor DNA in Pediatric Sarcomas | The Regents of the University of California San Francisco / Alejandro Sweet-Cordero, MD & Maximillian Diehn, MD/PhD (Stanford University) | Innovation Grants | 2016 | California |
| 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 |
| Targeting Eya2 to Inhibit c-Myc driven Medulloblastoma Tumor Progression | University of Colorado Denver / Melanie Vincent, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2016 | Colorado |
| Developing Targeted Immunotherapy Against Pediatric Acute Myeloid Leukemia | Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center / Melinda Biernacki, MD | Young Investigator Grants | 2016 | Washington |
| Investigating Racial Disparities in Pediatric Acute Leukemia | University of California San Francisco / Lena Winestone, MD | Young Investigator Grants | 2016 | California |
| GPC2 as an Oncogene and Immunotherapeutic Target in High-risk Neuroblastoma | Children's Hospital of Philadelphia / Kristopher Bosse, MD | Young Investigator Grants | 2016 | Pennsylvania |
| Identification of Mechanisms of Resistance to Trametinib Monotherapy in PAX-fusion Negative Rhabdomyosarcoma | National Cancer Institute / Marielle Yohe, MD/PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2016 | Maryland |
| The Role of MiRNA Impairment in Wilms' Tumor Formation | University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas / Kenneth Chen, MD | Young Investigator Grants | 2016 | Texas |
| Molecular Basis of ALK Inhibition Resistance in High-risk Neuroblastoma | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute / David Debruyne, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2016 | Massachusetts |