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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
Predicting Outcome and Ameliorating Toxicities of the Immunotherapy of Neuroblastoma	University of California, San Diego / Alice Yu, MD, PhD	Innovation Grants	2011	California
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
Next-Generation Therapies for Hedgehog Pathway-Dependent Tumors	Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford University School of Medicine / James Chen, PhD	Innovation Grants	2013	California
Factors Affecting Parental Satisfaction, Anxiety and Comprehension of the Informed Consent in Pediatric Oncology Clinical Trials	University of California, San Diego / Paula Aristizabal, MD	Psychosocial Grants	2015	California
Optimizing TCRαβ+/CD19+-depleted haploidentical HSCT for ALL using donor-derived genome-edited CAR T cells	Stanford University School of Medicine / Alice Bertaina, MD/PhD	Reach Grants	2019	California
The role of OCT4 in self-renewal signaling and drug-resistance of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia	Children’s Hospital Los Angeles / Markus Muschen	Innovation Grants	2008	California
Defining how unique properties of the pediatric immune system contribute to poor efficacy of checkpoint blockade in children	Stanford University / Adrienne Long, MD/PhD	Young Investigator Grants	2024	California
Understanding and inhibiting mechanisms of metastatic spread in osteosarcoma	University of California San Francisco / Alejandro Sweet-Cordero, MD	Crazy 8 Awards	2022	California
Symptom Burden, Health-Related Quality of Life and Health Care Utilization Among Children Undergoing Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation: Impact of Parent Sleep, Fatigue and Psychological Distress	Children’s Hospital Los Angeles / Jessica Ward, PhD	Nurse Researcher Fellowship Grant	2017	California
The Identification of Neuroblastoma Cancer Stem Cells.	Stanford University / Robert Cho	Young Investigator Grants	2007	California

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