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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Regulation of Tumor Debris Mediated Inflammation as a Therapeutic Modality in Medulloblastoma | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute / Mark Kieran, MD, PhD & Dipak Panigrahy, MD | Innovation Grants | 2015 | Massachusetts |
| Identifying Mechanisms of Glucocorticoid Resistance in Pediatric Acute Lymphoblastic | University of Massachusetts Medical School / Michelle Kelliher, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2015 | Massachusetts |
| Enhanced Drug Repurposing Screen in DSRCT Enabled by New In Vitro and In Vivo Models Based on CRISPR/Cas9 Genome Engineering | Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center / Marc Ladanyi, MD & Maria Jasin, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2015 | New York |
| High-dimensional Biochemical CyTOF Analysis of Pediatric T cell Leukemias | University of California San Francisco / Jeroen Roose, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2015 | California |
| Developing a Novel Tumor Model to Screen for New Therapies for Spinal Ependymoma | The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine / Linda Resar, MD & Richard Schlegel, MD, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2015 | Maryland |
| Integrative Genomic and Immunogenomic Analysis of Neuroblastoma | University of California at Santa Cruz / David Haussler, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2015 | California |
| Identifying Epigenetic Mechanisms Impacting Neuroblastoma Genome Stability and Drug Response | Massachusetts General Hospital / Johnathan Whetstine, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2015 | Massachusetts |
| Optimizing Bispecific Antibody Therapy for Acute Leukemias | Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center / Roland Walter, MD, PhD & James Olson, MD, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2015 | Washington |
| Functional Analysis and Therapeutic Targeting of STAG2 Mutations in Ewing sarcoma | Georgetown University / Todd Waldman, MD, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2015 | District of Columbia |
| Identifying how Pre-existing Anti-Therapeutic Antibodies (PATA) are Associated with Better Outcome in a Clinical Trial of ADCC-inducing Anti-GD2 mAb | University of Wisconsin - Madison / Paul Sondel, MD, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2015 | Wisconsin |