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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Development of CAR-T therapy for Ewing sarcoma using zebrafish in vivo models | Children’s Hospital Los Angeles / James Amatruda, MD/PhD | Innovation Grants | 2024 | 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 |
| Alternative Splicing Driven by MYCN Activates RAS-MAPK in Neuroblastoma | University of California San Francisco / William Weiss, MD/PhD | Innovation Grants | 2018 | California |
| Identification and Characterization of an Epigenetic Program that Maintains the Self-Renewal of MLL Myeloid Leukemia Stem Cells | Stanford University / Hon-Kit Wong | Young Investigator Grants | 2010 | California |
| Preclinical Studies of Gli1 Inhibition in Ewing Family Tumors | Children’s Hospital Los Angeles / William May | Innovation Grants | 2008 | California |
| Targeting Aberrant Hh Signaling with BET Bromodomain Inhibition as a Novel Therapeutic Strategy Against MB and DIPG | Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford University School of Medicine / Yujie Tang, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2014 | 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 |
| A CRISPRi Genetic Screen in Ewing sarcoma Identifies a Novel Dependence on Homologous Recombination DNA Repair | University of California San Francisco / Asmin Tulpule, MD/PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2016 | 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 |