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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
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
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
The role of OCT4 in self-renewal signaling and drug-resistance of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia	Children’s Hospital Los Angeles / Markus Muschen	Innovation Grants	2008	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
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
Understanding and inhibiting mechanisms of metastatic spread in osteosarcoma	University of California San Francisco / Alejandro Sweet-Cordero, MD	Crazy 8 Awards	2022	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
Space-Time Analysis of the California Birth Cohort: 30 Years of Childhood Cancer	University of California Berkeley / Steve Selvin, PhD	Epidemiology Grants	2015	California
The Identification of Neuroblastoma Cancer Stem Cells.	Stanford University / Robert Cho	Young Investigator Grants	2007	California
Circulating Repetitive Element RNAs as an Osteosarcoma Marker	Children’s Hospital Los Angeles / David Cobrinik, MD/PhD	Innovation Grants	2018	California

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