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 |
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Oncogenic Hedgehog Pathway Activation by a Putative Rho GTPase-Activating Protein | Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford University School of Medicine / Jun Ni, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2013 | California |
Long-Term Morbidity in Survivors of Childhood Cancer with Down Syndrome | University of California San Francisco / Shannon Raber | Nurse Researcher Grants | 2010 | California |
The Identification of Neuroblastoma Cancer Stem Cells. | Stanford University / Robert Cho | Young Investigator Grants | 2007 | 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 |
Altered Cerebral Blood Flow after Pediatric Posterior Fossa Brain Tumor Treatment | Children’s Hospital Los Angeles / Mary Baron Nelson, RN/PhD | Nurse Researcher Grants | 2016 | California |
Studying the clonal dynamics and evolution of leukemia using molecular barcodes | Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford University School of Medicine / Matthew Porteus, MD, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2011 | California |
Improving Thymus Function by RB Inactivation | Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford University School of Medicine / Julien Sage, PhD | Springboard Grants | 2012 | California |
Circulating Repetitive Element RNAs as an Osteosarcoma Marker | Children’s Hospital Los Angeles / David Cobrinik, MD/PhD | Innovation Grants | 2018 | California |
Modeling Pediatric Leukemia in Zebra Fish to Enable Discovery of New Anti- Leukemic Compounds | University of California, San Diego / David Traver, MD | Innovation Grants | 2010 | California |
Blockade of MYCN in neuroblastoma | University of California San Francisco / William Weiss, MD/PhD | Innovation Grants | 2011 | California |