Funded Grants

The V Foundation’s grant making model ensures the most promising cancer research projects at state-of-the-art facilities around the country are funded. Cancer research grants are awarded to innovative researchers with the most cutting-edge ideas on how to improve cancer diagnosis methods, prevent cancer recurrences or defeat cancer. 100% of direct donations are used to fund projects we identify as the most likely to help those diagnosed with cancer.

2026
Renier Brentjens, MD, PhD
STAT-CARs: Breaking down the barriers to CAR T therapy for pediatric sarcoma
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2026
Yiming Wang, MD, PhD, FRCPC
A Cancer-Relevant NF1 Variant Atlas to Enable Precision Surveillance in Children
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2026
Erin Crotty, M.D.
Analytical and Clinical Validation of Cerebrospinal Fluid Liquid Biopsy for Pediatric Medulloblastoma
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2026
Ash Alizadeh, MD, PhD
Predicting Risk & Response in Pediatric Hodgkin Lymphoma by Circulating Tumor DNA...
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2026
Chao Lu, PhD
Targeting Lineage-specific Metabolic Dependency in Pediatric Gliomas
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2026
Michael Kharas, PhD
Understanding the MSI RNA binding proteins on Cell Fate in Neuroblastoma
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2026
Iannis Aifantis, PhD
Mechanisms of antigenic escape in pediatric B cell malignancies
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2026
Lukas Chavez, PhD
Therapeutic Targeting of Anti-Apoptotic Proteins in Posterior Fossa A Ependymoma Using BH3...
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2026
Thomas Alexander, MD, MPH
Transforming Pediatric Solid Tumor Diagnosis with a Single-Assay Nanopore Platform for Rapid...
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2025
Sita Kugel, PhD
Targeting CDK7 in Patients with Resectable or Borderline Resectable Basal-Like Pancreatic Ductal...
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2025
Erin George, MD
Controlling treatment toxicity in ovarian cancer to prime the patient for tumor...
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2025
Kate Markey, MBBS, PhD
Defining microbial control of immune recovery after cancer treatment
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2025
Giada Bianchi, MD
A novel therapeutic strategy in AL amyloidosis and multiple myeloma: targeting immunoglobulin...
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2025
Alicia Darnell, PhD
Stalling cancer at the ribosome
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2025
Xin Gao, PhD
Mechanisms of mutant ASXL1-driven clonal hematopoiesis and myeloid leukemia
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2025
Prerna Malaney, PhD
Identifying Post-Transcriptional Regulators of Metastasis
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