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.

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Fighting Childhood Leukemia

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

NEW GRANT

Jungmin Lee, Ph.D.

The University of California, San Francisco

PROJECT: Synthetic control of effector T cell infiltration into immune-excluded tumors

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

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

Sohini Chakraborty, Ph.D.

New York Univ School of Medicine, New York, NY

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