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 1,000 funded projects below.
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ALSF Funded Research Projects
Project Title | Institution / Principal Investigator(s) | Grant Type | Year |
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Modeling Anaplastic Medulloblastoma using Cerebellar Stem Cells | Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute / Robert Wechsler-Reya, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2011 | California |
Neural Stem Cell-Mediated Drug Delivery for Targeted Treatment of Medulloblastoma | Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope / Margarita Gutova, MD | Reach Grants | 2013 | California |
Predicting Outcome and Ameliorating Toxicities of the Immunotherapy of Neuroblastoma | University of California, San Diego / Alice Yu, MD, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2011 | California |
131-I-MIBG and Targeted Therapy for Neuroblastoma: Infrastructure Proposal. | University of California San Francisco / Katherine Matthay, MD | Phase I/II Infrastructure Grants | 2007 | California |
Targeting Secondary Mutations in Juvenile Myelomonocytic Leukemia | University of California San Francisco / Elliot Stieglitz, MD | Young Investigator Grants | 2015 | 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 |
Targeting Childhood Brain Cancer in a Dish to Catalyze New Therapies | University of California, Davis Medical Center / Paul Knoepfler, PhD | Innovation Grants | 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 |
Preclinical Studies of Gli1 Inhibition in Ewing Family Tumors | Children’s Hospital Los Angeles / William May | Innovation Grants | 2008 | 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 |