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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drug Screen for FPD/AML Therapeutics | Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia / Mortimer Poncz, MD | RARE Grant Program (Research Accelerating RUNX1 Exploration) | 2017 | Pennsylvania |
| A Home Physical Activity Program to Improve Cognitive Late Effects in Children Treated with Radiation for Brain Tumors | National Cancer Institute / Pamela Wolters, PhD | Psychosocial Family Impact Grant | 2017 | Maryland |
| Families of Children with Advanced Cancer: Quality of Life & Goals of Care | Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital / Cindy Gerhardt, PhD | Psychosocial Family Impact Grant | 2017 | Ohio |
| Pediatric Precision Oncology: Parent and Adolescent Experiences | Hospital for Sick Children / Anita Villani, MD | Psychosocial Launch Grant | 2017 | Ontario |
| Symptom Burden, Health-Related Quality of Life and Health Care Utilization Among Children Undergoing Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation: Impact of Parent Sleep, Fatigue and Psychological Distress | Children’s Hospital Los Angeles / Jessica Ward, PhD | Nurse Researcher Fellowship Grant | 2017 | California |
| Novel Approaches to AML Differentiation Therapy | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute / Andrew Lane, MD/PhD | 'A' Award Grants | 2017 | Massachusetts |
| Reversing mSWI/SNF (BAF) Complex Misassembly and Genomic Targeting in Human Synovial Sarcoma | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute / Cigall Kadoch, PhD | 'A' Award Grants | 2017 | Massachusetts |
| Therapeutic Targeting of PGBD5-induced DNA Repair Dependency in Pediatric Solid Tumors | Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center / Alex Kentsis, MD/PhD | Reach Grants | 2017 | New York |
| Targeting Chondroitin Sulphate Proteoglycan 4 (CSPG4) in Glioblastoma | University of North Carolina / Gianpietro Dotti, MD & Barbara Savoldo, MD/PhD | Reach Grants | 2017 | North Carolina |
| Phase I Study of Lentivirus Engineered Autologous AML Cells Expressing IL-12 in Children and Young Adults with Relapsed AML | Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin - Milwaukee / Michael Burke, MD & Jeffrey Medin, MD/PhD | Reach Grants | 2017 | Wisconsin |