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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Targeting the biological underpinnings of pulmonary metastasis in osteosarcoma | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute / Rani George, MD/PhD | Crazy 8 Awards | 2022 | Massachusetts |
| Understanding and inhibiting mechanisms of metastatic spread in osteosarcoma | University of California San Francisco / Alejandro Sweet-Cordero, MD | Crazy 8 Awards | 2022 | California |
| Barcoding Pediatric Leukemia for Therapeutic Purposes | Boston Children’s Hospital / Leonard Zon, MD | Crazy 8 Awards | 2020 | Massachusetts |
| Small Molecule Degraders for Targeting Transcription Factor Drivers of Childhood Cancers | St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital / Charles G. Mullighan, MBBS(Hons), MSc, MD, FRACP, FRCPA | Crazy 8 Awards | 2020 | Tennessee |
| Tracking Ewing Sarcoma Origin by Developmental and Trans-species Genomics | St. Anna Children’s Cancer Research Institute / Heinrich Kovar, PhD | Crazy 8 Awards | 2020 | |
| Drugging MYCN | Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia / Yael Mossé, MD | Crazy 8 Awards | 2020 | Pennsylvania |
| Targeting MYCN | Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia / Yael Mossé, MD & Julie Park, MD | Crazy 8 Pilots | 2019 | Pennsylvania |
| Dissecting Microenvironmental Interactions in Pediatric High-Grade Gliomas that Promote Tumor Growth | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute / Mariella G. Filbin, MD/PhD | Crazy 8 Pilots | 2019 | Massachusetts |
| Targeting Fusion-driven Sarcomas | National Institutes of Health / Javed Khan, MD | Crazy 8 Pilots | 2019 | Maryland |
| A comprehensive public resource for fusion-negative sarcoma sequencing data | University of California San Francisco / Alejandro Sweet-Cordero, MD & Richard Gorlick, MD | Crazy 8 Pilots | 2019 | California |
| Live-Cell Surface Proteomic Characterization of Atypical Teratoid Rhabdoid Tumors Using High Throughout Multi-Color Flow | University of Colorado Denver / Siddhartha S. Mitra, PhD | Crazy 8 Pilots | 2019 | Colorado |
| Multiplex Ion Beam Imaging of Pediatric Cancers | Stanford University School of Medicine / Crystal L. Mackall, MD | Crazy 8 Pilots | 2019 | California |
| Overcoming Obstacles to Drug Development in Pediatric Cancer | Stanford University School of Medicine / Crystal L. Mackall, MD | Crazy 8 Pilots | 2019 | California |
| 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 |
| Harmonizing Data Sharing Efforts towards a Federated Data Model | University of California at Santa Cruz / Olena M. Vaske, PhD & David Haussler, PhD | Crazy 8 Pilots | 2019 | California |
| Platform development for target identification in high risk pediatric leukemias | Columbia University / Adolfo A Ferrando, MD/PhD, Charles Mullighan, MD | Crazy 8 Pilots | 2019 | New York |
| Platform development for target identification in high risk pediatric leukemias | St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital / Adolfo A Ferrando, MD/PhD, Charles Mullighan, MD | Crazy 8 Pilots | 2019 | Tennessee |
| Targeting the Surface-ome of Embryonal Brain Tumors | Institut Curie / Olivier Ayrault, PhD | Crazy 8 Pilots | 2019 |