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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
Targeting PI3Kdelta in Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia	Children’s Hospital Los Angeles / Yong-mi Kim, MD & Nora Heisterkamp, PhD	Reach Grants	2015	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
Investigation of Genetic and Molecular Mechanisms of Second Malignant Neoplasms in a Mouse Model	University of California San Francisco / Jean Nakamura	Young Investigator Grants	2011	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
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
STING Pathway Activation: The Missing Link between Genomic Instability and Antitumor Immunity in Osteosarcoma	University of California San Francisco / Elizabeth Young, MD	Young Investigator Grants	2021	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
Modeling Pediatric Leukemia in the Zebrafish to Enable Discovery of New Anti-Leukemic Compounds	University of California, San Diego / David Traver, MD	Innovation Grants	2012	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

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