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.
Use the search tool to refine your results. You can also click on a heading to sort by project title, institution name, or year the grant was awarded. Click on the project title to read more information.
You can learn about ALSF's grant review process here.
ALSF Funded Research Projects
| Project Title | Institution / Principal Investigator(s) | Grant Type | Year |
State |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Factors Affecting Parental Satisfaction, Anxiety and Comprehension of the Informed Consent in Pediatric Oncology Clinical Trials | University of California, San Diego / Paula Aristizabal, MD | Psychosocial Grants | 2015 | 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 |
| The influence of the raphe nucleus and serotonin on progression of diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma | Stanford University / Richard Drexler, MD/PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2024 | 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 |
| A Novel Target for Neuroblastoma Treatment | Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope / Linda Malkas, Ph.D. | Reach Grants | 2014 | 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 |
| Investigation of Oncogenic Long Non-coding RNAs in Ewing sarcoma | Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford University School of Medicine / Siu Ping Ngok, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2014 | California |
| Targeting eEF2 Kinase in Neuroblastoma | University of California San Francisco / William Weiss, M.D., Ph.D. | Innovation Grants | 2014 | California |
| The Identification of Neuroblastoma Cancer Stem Cells. | Stanford University / Robert Cho | Young Investigator Grants | 2007 | California |