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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Single-cell Profiling of Early T-cell Precursor Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia | Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia / David Teachey, MD and Kai Tan, PhD | Single-cell Pediatric Cancer Atlas Grant | 2019 | Pennsylvania |
| Novel Genomic Drivers in Pediatric Polyposis Syndromes | Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia / Suzanne MacFarland, MD | Young Investigator Grants | 2019 | Pennsylvania |
| Identification of Synthetically Immunogenic Compounds to Synergize with Immunotherapy in Neuroblastoma | Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia / Adam Wolpaw, MD/PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2019 | Pennsylvania |
| Kidney Disease after CD19-Targeted Chimeric Antigen Receptor T Cell Therapy for Pediatric Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia | Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia / Regina Myers, MD | Young Investigator Grants | 2019 | Pennsylvania |
| Pediatric Osteosarcoma: Identifying the elusive molecular signature and its relationship to this disease | St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital / Linda Hendershot, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2019 | Tennessee |
| ECM-targeted CAR T-cell therapy for high-grade glioma | St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital / Jessica Wagner, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2019 | Tennessee |
| Improving CAR T-Cell Therapy for Pediatric Osteosarcoma by Manipulating Arginine Metabolism | St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital / Shannon Lange, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2019 | Tennessee |
| Targeting microenvironment-induced TGFB signaling to overcome drug resistance in acute lymphoblastic leukemia | St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital / Charles Mullighan, MD | Innovation Grants | 2019 | Tennessee |
| Single Nuclear RNA-seq and Spatial Transcriptomic Analysis of Anaplastic and Favorable Histology Wilms Tumor | St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital / Andrew Murphy, MD and Xiang Chen, PhD | Single-cell Pediatric Cancer Atlas Grant | 2019 | Tennessee |
| Platform development for target identification in high risk pediatric leukemias | St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital / Adolfo A Ferrando, MD/PhD, Charles Mullighan, MD | Crazy 8 Pilots | 2019 | Tennessee |