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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Practical, Reproducible, and Statistically-Rigorous Workflows for Single-Nucleus Analysis of Childhood Cancer Data | Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health / Stephanie C. Hicks, PhD | Crazy 8 Pilots | 2019 | Maryland |
| ECM-targeted CAR T-cell therapy for high-grade glioma | St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital / Jessica Wagner, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2019 | Tennessee |
| Defining the Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Pediatric Brain Tumor Penetrance | Washington University / Nicole Brossier, MD/PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2019 | Missouri |
| CD36-Sphingosine 1-Phosphate Axis in Osteosarcoma Progression | Medical University of South Carolina / Meenal Mehrotra, MD/PhD | Innovation Grants | 2019 | South Carolina |
| Identifying targeted treatments for DICER1-associated sarcomas | Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre / William Foulkes, MD/PhD & Sidong Huang, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2019 | Quebec |
| Targeting symmetric division in pediatric cancers | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute / Rosalind Segal, MD/PhD | Innovation Grants | 2019 | Massachusetts |
| Epigenetic regulation of genomic instability and its therapeutic implications in T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute / Birgit Knoechel, MD/PhD | Innovation Grants | 2019 | Massachusetts |
| Selectively targeting EP300 with small molecules for neuroblastoma (NB) therapy | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute / Jun Qi, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2019 | Massachusetts |
| Predicting and Overcoming Resistance to Immunotherapy in Pediatric High-Grade Glioma | Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago / Oren Becher, MD & Robert Wechsler-Reya, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2019 | Illinois |
| The Role of Germline Variants in Infant Leukemogenesis | Washington University / Margaret Ferris, MD/PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2019 | Missouri |