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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Single-cell Profiling of Pediatric Bone Sarcomas | University of California, Los Angeles / Alice Soragni, PhD | Single-cell Pediatric Cancer Atlas Grant | 2019 | California |
| Developing and Distributing a Pediatric Spinal Cord High-grade Glioma Model | Stanford University / Michelle Monje, MD/PhD | Innovation Grants | 2016 | California |
| Long-Term Morbidity in Survivors of Childhood Cancer with Down Syndrome | University of California San Francisco / Shannon Raber | Nurse Researcher Grants | 2010 | California |
| Symptom Burden, Health-Related Quality of Life and Health Care Utilization Among Children Undergoing Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation: Impact of Parent Sleep, Fatigue and Psychological Distress | Children’s Hospital Los Angeles / Jessica Ward, PhD | Nurse Researcher Fellowship Grant | 2017 | 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 |
| CLL-1 CAR-T cells with or without trametinib for the treatment of JMML | The Regents of the University of California San Francisco / Elliot Stieglitz, MD | R Accelerated Award Grants | 2023 | California |
| Targeting Childhood Brain Cancer in a Dish to Catalyze New Therapies | University of California, Davis Medical Center / Paul Knoepfler, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2017 | 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 |
| Single-cell RNA-seq Profiling of Transcriptional Transition States During Human Retinoblastoma | Children’s Hospital Los Angeles / Sunhye Lee, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2016 | California |
| Neural Crest Gene Regulatory Networks Underlying Normal Meningeal Development and Onset of Meningioma | California Institute of Technology / Ayyappa Raja Desingu Rajan, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2021 | California |