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 |
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Preclinical Testing of Candidate Therapeutics in a Pediatric Spinal Cord High-grade Glioma Model | Stanford University / Michelle Monje, MD/PhD | Innovation Grants | 2016 | California |
Physical Properties of Drug-Resistant Leukemia Cells | Children’s Hospital Los Angeles / Yong-mi Kim, MD/PhD | Innovation Grants | 2018 | California |
Identifying Drug Resistant Mutations in Ph-like Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia | University of California San Francisco / Mignon Loh, M.D. | Innovation Grants | 2014 | California |
Determinants of Testicular Germ Cell Tumor Platinum Sensitivity and Resistance | University of California, San Diego / Paolo Abada | Young Investigator Grants | 2012 | California |
Characterization of Pre-Leukemia Associated with Familial RUNX1 Mutations | Stanford University / Ravi Majeti, MD/PhD | RARE Grant Program (Research Accelerating RUNX1 Exploration) | 2016 | California |
Endocrine Disrupting Pesticides, Neonatal Hormones and Risk of Testicular Germ Cell Tumors | University of California Berkeley / Catherine Metayer, MD, PhD | Epidemiology Grants | 2018 | California |
Identifying novel biomarkers for risk stratification in t-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). | University of California San Francisco / Michelle Hermiston, MD, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2009 | California |
Saturating CRISPR gene body scans in MLL-rearranged leukemia | Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope / Chun-Wei Chen, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2019 | California |
Targeting inhibitory phosphatase signaling in high-risk childhood ALL | University of California San Francisco / Markus Muschen, MD, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2011 | California |
Identification of Aberrantly Methylated Differentially Expressed Genes to Distinguish High- vs. Low-Risk Retinoblastoma | Children’s Hospital Los Angeles / Jesse Berry, MD | Reach Grants | 2023 | California |