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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detection of Circulating Tumor DNA in Pediatric Sarcomas | The Regents of the University of California San Francisco / Alejandro Sweet-Cordero, MD & Maximillian Diehn, MD/PhD (Stanford University) | Innovation Grants | 2016 | California |
| Improving Immune-Mediated Oncolytic Viral Therapy: Engineering Tumor Vaccine Elements into the Virus | Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital / Kevin Cassady, MD & Christopher Walker, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2016 | Ohio |
| Developing and Distributing a Pediatric Spinal Cord High-grade Glioma Model | Stanford University / Michelle Monje, MD/PhD | Innovation Grants | 2016 | California |
| Preclinical Testing of Candidate Therapeutics in a Pediatric Spinal Cord High-grade Glioma Model | Stanford University / Michelle Monje, MD/PhD | Innovation Grants | 2016 | California |
| Enhancing Pediatric Sarcoma Immunotherapy by Drug Induced Expression of Tumor-Specific Cryptic Neoantigens | University of Minnesota / David Largaespada, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2016 | Minnesota |
| Image Guided Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma Drug Delivery and Design | Weill Cornell Medical College / Mark Souweidane, MD & Richard Ting, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2016 | New York |
| Redefining the Cellular Architecture of Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma through Large-Scale Single-cell RNA-seq Analyses | Massachusetts General Hospital / Mario Suva, MD/PhD | Innovation Grants | 2016 | Massachusetts |
| Circulating Exosomes as Biomarkers of Medulloblastoma Progression, Metastasis, and Recurrence | Weill Cornell Medical College / David Lyden, MD/PhD & Parveen Raju, MD/PhD | Innovation Grants | 2016 | New York |
| Targeted Inhibition of Lin28/let-7 Binding to Treat Pediatric Malignancy | Boston Children’s Hospital / George Q. Daley, MD/PhD | Innovation Grants | 2016 | Massachusetts |
| GeneEditing in T cell Leukemia to Promote Immunomodulatory Forms of Cell Death | Boston Children’s Hospital / Dr. Ben Croker, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2016 | Massachusetts |