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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stapled Peptide PROTAC: A 3-in-1 Treatment for Pediatric Solid Tumors | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute / Loren Walensky, MD/PhD | Reach Grants | 2021 | Massachusetts |
| Choline Kinase and Alkylating Agent Resistance in Refractory Childhood Leukemias | Boston Children’s Hospital / Alejandro Gutierrez, MD | Innovation Grants | 2021 | Massachusetts |
| Dissecting the Contribution and Inheritance of Germline DNA Damage Repair Gene Mutations in Neuroblastoma | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute / Riaz Gillani, MD | Young Investigator Grants | 2021 | Massachusetts |
| Dissecting Functional uORFs as a Source of Cancer Genes in High-Risk Medulloblastoma | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute / John Prensner, MD/PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2021 | Massachusetts |
| Characterizing Inflammatory Phenotypes Associated with RUNX1 Deficiency | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute / Waihay Wong, MD/PhD | RUNX1 Early Career Investigator Grants | 2021 | Massachusetts |
| Hematopoietic stem cell function in familial platelet disorder therapy | University of Massachusetts Medical School / Lucio Castilla, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2021 | Massachusetts |
| Unraveling metabolic dependencies in childhood supratentorial ependymomas. | Regents of the University of Michigan / Sriram Venneti, MD/PhD | Innovation Grants | 2021 | Michigan |
| Optimization of Drug Efflux and Brain Clearance to Improve CED of Targeted Therapy to H3K27M DMG | Mayo Clinic / David Daniels, MD/PhD | Reach Grants | 2021 | Minnesota |
| A leukemia organoid platform for dissection and targeting of tumor-niche interactions | Columbia Institute for Cancer Genetics / Adolfo Ferrando, MD/PhD | Innovation Grants | 2021 | New York |
| IND-Enabling Studies for WNTinib, a Novel Selective Therapeutic for CTNNB1 Mutant Hepatoblastomas | Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai / Ernesto Guccione, PhD & Josep Llovet, MD & Arvin Dar, PhD | Reach Grants | 2021 | New York |