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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Identifying Novel Therapeutic Combinations with 131I-MIBG to Treat Relapsed and Refractory Neuroblastoma | The Regents of the University of California San Francisco / William Clay Gustafson, M.D., Ph.D. | Reach Grants | 2014 | California |
Role of Fetal Growth in Pediatric Rhabdomyosarcoma | University of California Berkeley / Catherine Metayer, MD, PhD | Epidemiology Grants | 2013 | California |
Blockade of Mycn in neuroblastoma | University of California San Francisco / William Weiss | Innovation Grants | 2008 | California |
Investigating Racial Disparities in Pediatric Acute Leukemia | University of California San Francisco / Lena Winestone, MD | Young Investigator Grants | 2016 | California |
Identifying novel biomarkers for risk stratification in t-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). | University of California San Francisco / Michelle Hermiston, MD, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2009 | California |
Targeted Degradation of Proliferative Transcription Factors in Pediatric Cancers | University of California at Santa Cruz / Seth Rubin, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2017 | 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 |
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 |
Phase II Trial of Poly-ICLC in Pediatric Low Grade Gliomas | University of California, San Diego / Donald Durden, MD, PhD | Springboard Grants | 2013 | California |