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ALSF Funded Research Projects

Project Title	Institution / Principal Investigator(s)	Grant Type	Year	State
Single Cell Analysis of Leukemia Initiation	Stanford University / Michael Cleary, MD	Innovation Grants	2015	California
Child's Exposure to Radiation from Medical Imaging and the Risk of Childhood Leukemia: Pooled Analyses from the Childhood Leukemia International Consortium (CLIC)	University of California Berkeley / Catherine Metayer, MD/PhD & Steve Selvin, PhD	Epidemiology Grants	2016	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
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
Immunotherapeutic Targeting of Stem Cells in Pediatric Brain Tumors	Harbor - UCLA Medical Center / Joseph Lasky	Young Investigator Grants	2008	California
Identifying novel biomarkers for risk stratification in t-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL).	University of California San Francisco / Michelle Hermiston, MD, PhD	Young Investigator Grants	2009	California
Antibody Targeted Natural Killer Cell-Derived Extracellular Vesicles for the Treatment of Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia and Neuroblastoma	Children's Hospital Los Angeles / Robert Seeger, MD & Alan Wayne, MD	Innovation Grants	2015	California
Understanding and inhibiting mechanisms of metastatic spread in osteosarcoma	University of California San Francisco / Alejandro Sweet-Cordero, MD	Crazy 8 Awards	2022	California
New Approaches to Neuroblastoma Therapy (NANT) Consortium	Children's Hospital Los Angeles / Robert Seeger, MD	Phase I/II Infrastructure Grants	2006	California
Maternal Comorbidities, Pharmaceutical Use and Childhood Cancers: A Record Linkage Study in Taiwan	University of California, Los Angeles / Julia Heck, PhD	Epidemiology Grants	2017	California

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