
Fighting Childhood Leukemia
The Fighting Childhood Leukemia program of the National Cancer Center provides research funding for the most common form of cancer in children: leukemia. Childhood leukemia accounts for more than one-third of all new cases of childhood cancers.
Research funded at Harvard’s Dana-Farber Cancer Institute seeks to discover novel molecular markers and potential therapeutic targets that, in time, can lead to improved diagnosis and prognosis of acute myeloid leukemia patients.
Current Grants and Renewals
National Cancer Center has been proud to award grants to many fine research organizations.
We know that a cure lies in research and we are committed to supporting as many research projects as we can.
Minzeng Zhang, M.D., Ph.D.
Dana-Farber Cancer Inst, Boston, MA PROJECT: Quantitative immune profiling of mantle cell lymphoma for precision therapy
TYPE: NEW GRANT
Jungmin Lee, Ph.D.
The University of California, San Francisco PROJECT: Synthetic control of effector T cell infiltration into immune-excluded tumors
TYPE: RENEWAL
Past Beneficiaries
Narek Darabedian, Ph.D.
Dana-Farber Cancer Inst, Boston, MA
PROJECT: Covalent manipulation of undrugged metabolic proteins to treat cancer
2020-2022
Sohini Chakraborty, Ph.D
New York Univ School of Medicine
PROJECT: Therapeutic targeting of stem cells in pediatric acute myeloid leukemia
2020-2022
Shixin Ma, Ph.D.
The Salk Inst for Biological Studies
PROJECT: Metabolically harnessing anti-tumor CD8 T cells at epigenetic level
2019-2021
Darko Barisic, Ph.D.
Weill Medical College of Cornell Univ
PROJECT: Role of chromatin remodeling complex BAF in lymphomagenesis
2019-2020
Johannes Christian Hellmuth, Ph.D.
Weill Cornell College of Cornell Univ
PROJECT: eRNA Processing by Integrator in Lymphoma Pathogenesis
2018-2019
Johannes Christian Hellmuth, Ph.D.
Weill Cornell College of Cornell Univ
PROJECT: eRNA Processing by Integrator in Lymphoma Pathogenesis
2016
Shelly L. Rozen, Ph.D.
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
PROJECT: The Oncogene SET intersects the FLT3-C/EBPalpha Axis in Granulopoiesis and Leukemia
2016-2015
Jeevisha Bajaj
Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine
PROJECT: The Role of CD98hc In Acute Myeloid Leukemia
2015
Robin Armstrong, Ph.D.
Memorial Sloan Kettering, New York, NY
PROJECT: Determining differential roles for p53 loss-of-function and R270H mutants during leukemia development
2021-2022