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 EGFR targeted therapy in pediatric malignant glioma. | University of California San Francisco / Theodore Nicolaides | Young Investigator Grants | 2009 | California |
| Reversing the Oncogenic Roles of Misdirected Chromatin Remodeling in Synovial Sarcoma | Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford University School of Medicine / Cigall Kadoch, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2013 | California |
| Intervention Development and Evaluation to Reduce Disparities in Quality of Life for Latino Families Impacted by Cancer | The Regents of the University of California, Irvine / Michelle Fortier, PhD | Psychosocial Family Impact Grant | 2019 | 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 |
| Single-cell Profiling of Pediatric Bone Sarcomas | University of California, Los Angeles / Alice Soragni, PhD | Single-cell Pediatric Cancer Atlas Grant | 2019 | California |
| Application of Epigenetic Markers for Early Detection of Childhood Leukemia. | University of California San Francisco / Sheng Zhong | Epidemiology 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 |
| High-Throughput Gene-Editing via Microfluidic Cell Deformability to Enable Off-the-Shelf Allogeneic Cellular Immunotherapies | University of California, Los Angeles / Steven Jonas, MD/PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2017 | California |
| Understanding and inhibiting mechanisms of metastatic spread in osteosarcoma | University of California San Francisco / Alejandro Sweet-Cordero, MD | Crazy 8 Awards | 2022 | California |
| Histone H3.3 Targeted Therapy for Pediatric High-grade Gliomas | University of California, Davis Medical Center / Paul Knoepfler, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2015 | California |