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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Targeting the Accomplices of MYC in MYC-driven Medulloblastoma | Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute / Robert Wechsler-Reya, Ph.D. | Innovation Grants | 2014 | California |
Assess the activity of ABT-737 as a single agent against neuroblastoma cell lines grown in cell culture | Children’s Hospital Los Angeles / Theresa Harned, MD | Young Investigator Grants | 2006 | California |
Optimizing EGFR targeted therapy in pediatric malignant glioma. | University of California San Francisco / Theodore Nicolaides | Young Investigator Grants | 2009 | California |
Application of Epigenetic Markers for Early Detection of Childhood Leukemia. | University of California San Francisco / Sheng Zhong | Epidemiology Grants | 2008 | California |
Developing and Distributing a Pediatric Spinal Cord High-grade Glioma Model | Stanford University / Michelle Monje, MD/PhD | Innovation Grants | 2016 | 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 |
Space-Time Analysis of the California Birth Cohort: 30 Years of Childhood Cancer | University of California Berkeley / Steve Selvin, PhD | Epidemiology Grants | 2015 | California |
The Identification of Neuroblastoma Cancer Stem Cells. | Stanford University / Robert Cho | Young Investigator Grants | 2007 | California |
Genetic Dissection of Cancer Drug Resistance and Toxicity Using Haploid Human Cells | Stanford University / Ramin Dubey, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2015 | California |
Histone H3.3 Targeted Therapy for Pediatric High-grade Gliomas | University of California, Davis Medical Center / Paul Knoepfler, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2015 | California |