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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harmonizing Data Sharing Efforts towards a Federated Data Model | University of California at Santa Cruz / Olena M. Vaske, PhD & David Haussler, PhD | Crazy 8 Pilots | 2019 | California |
| Saving Lives, Saving Neurons, the Head Start Consortium for Young Children with Malignant Central Nervous System Tumors | Children’s Hospital Los Angeles / Jonathan Finlay, MD | Phase I/II Infrastructure Grants | 2007 | California |
| Understanding the Role of Translational Control in Humanized Mouse Models for Medulloblastoma | University of California San Francisco / Ozlem Aksoy, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2015 | California |
| Preclinical Development of a First-in-Class PCNA Inhibitor for Treating Neuroblastoma | City of Hope National Medical Center / Linda Malkas, PhD | Reach Grants | 2019 | 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 |
| Enhancing Effectiveness of Immune Checkpoint Therapy in Neuroblastoma | Children’s Hospital Los Angeles / Shahab Asgharzadeh, MD | Innovation Grants | 2015 | California |
| Characterization of the Role of Chromosome 1p Deletion in MYCN-Amplified Neuroblastoma | University of California San Francisco / Miller Huang, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2013 | California |
| Perinatal Hormonal Biomarkers and Risk of Testicular Germ Cell Tumors | University of California Berkeley / Catherine Metayer, MD, PhD | Epidemiology Grants | 2014 | California |
| Targeting Secondary Mutations in Juvenile Myelomonocytic Leukemia | University of California San Francisco / Elliot Stieglitz, MD | Young Investigator Grants | 2015 | California |
| Genomic Alterations in Medulloblastoma | Children’s Hospital Los Angeles / Shahab Asgharzadeh, MD | Young Investigator Grants | 2008 | California |