Childhood Cancer Research

RARE Grant Program (Research Accelerating RUNX1 Exploration)

The Research Accelerating RUNX1 Exploration Grant is a two-year award designed to fund research that will lead to the development of therapies for patients with RUNX1-FPD that will either intercept the transition from a precancer state (clonal hematopoiesis) to MDS/AML or prevention of cancer (before clonal hematopoiesis). The RARE Grant is $250,000 over 2 years (maximum $125,000 per year may be requested).

2026 RUNX1 RARE Grant Program Guidelines

2024
Robert Bowman, PhD
University of Pennsylvania
2020
Lucio Castilla, PhD
University of Massachusetts Medical School
2017
Mortimer Poncz, MD
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
2017
Anupriya Agarwal, PhD
Oregon Health & Science University
2016
Leonard Zon, MD
Boston Children’s Hospital
2016
Alan Cantor, MD/PhD
Boston Children’s Hospital
2016
Marshall Horwitz, MD/PhD
University of Washington, Seattle