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 |
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Overcoming Obstacles to Drug Development in Pediatric Cancer | Stanford University School of Medicine / Crystal L. Mackall, MD | Crazy 8 Pilots | 2019 | California |
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 |
Small Molecule Degraders for Targeting Transcription Factor Drivers of Childhood Cancers | St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital / Charles G. Mullighan, MBBS(Hons), MSc, MD, FRACP, FRCPA | Crazy 8 Awards | 2020 | Tennessee |
Targeting the biological underpinnings of pulmonary metastasis in osteosarcoma | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute / Rani George, MD/PhD | Crazy 8 Awards | 2022 | Massachusetts |
Tracking Ewing Sarcoma Origin by Developmental and Trans-species Genomics | St. Anna Children’s Cancer Research Institute / Heinrich Kovar, PhD | Crazy 8 Awards | 2020 | |
Understanding and inhibiting mechanisms of metastatic spread in osteosarcoma | University of California San Francisco / Alejandro Sweet-Cordero, MD | Crazy 8 Awards | 2022 | California |
Barcoding Pediatric Leukemia for Therapeutic Purposes | Boston Children’s Hospital / Leonard Zon, MD | Crazy 8 Awards | 2020 | Massachusetts |
Drugging MYCN | Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia / Yael Mossé, MD | Crazy 8 Awards | 2020 | Pennsylvania |
Development of New Approaches to Target MAP Kinase Pathway in RAS-driven Rhabdomyosarcoma | University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio / Angelina Vaseva, PhD | R Accelerated Award Grants | 2023 | Texas |
The role of pyruvate kinase as a therapeutic target in pediatric leukemia | Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey / Daniel Herranz Benito, PhD | R Accelerated Award Grants | 2023 | New Jersey |