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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Predicting Outcome and Ameliorating Toxicities of the Immunotherapy of Neuroblastoma | University of California, San Diego / Alice Yu, MD, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2011 | California |
| Chemical Genetics and CRISPRi/a Screen for Novel Therapeutic Targets in a Humanized Model for MYCN Associated High-Risk Pediatric Neuroblastoma | University of California San Francisco / Zhenyi An, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2015 | California |
| Targeting PI3Kdelta in Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia | Children’s Hospital Los Angeles / Yong-mi Kim, MD & Nora Heisterkamp, PhD | Reach Grants | 2015 | California |
| Develop a Therapeutic Vaccine Approach by Removing Viral Immune Evasion | University of California, Los Angeles / Ren Sun, PhD | Springboard Grants | 2013 | California |
| Oncogenic Hedgehog Pathway Activation by a Putative Rho GTPase-Activating Protein | Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford University School of Medicine / Jun Ni, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2013 | 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 |
| Application of Epigenetic Markers for Early Detection of Childhood Leukemia. | University of California San Francisco / Sheng Zhong | Epidemiology Grants | 2008 | California |
| Development of CAR-T therapy for Ewing sarcoma using zebrafish in vivo models | Children’s Hospital Los Angeles / James Amatruda, MD/PhD | Innovation Grants | 2024 | 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 |
| Alternative Splicing Driven by MYCN Activates RAS-MAPK in Neuroblastoma | University of California San Francisco / William Weiss, MD/PhD | Innovation Grants | 2018 | California |