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 |
State |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Single Cell Signaling Profiles In High-Risk Pediatric Leukemia | Stanford University / Kara Davis | Young Investigator Grants | 2010 | California |
| Detection of Circulating Tumor DNA in Pediatric Sarcomas | The Regents of the University of California San Francisco / Alejandro Sweet-Cordero, MD & Maximillian Diehn, MD/PhD (Stanford University) | Innovation Grants | 2016 | California |
| Assess the activity of ABT-737 as a single agent against neuroblastoma cell lines grown in cell culture | Children's Hospital Los Angeles / Theresa Harned, MD | Young Investigator Grants | 2006 | California |
| Genetic Dissection of Cancer Drug Resistance and Toxicity Using Haploid Human Cells | Stanford University / Ramin Dubey, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2015 | California |
| Genomic Alterations in Medulloblastoma | Children's Hospital Los Angeles / Shahab Asgharzadeh, MD | Young Investigator Grants | 2008 | 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 |
| Histone H3.3 Targeted Therapy for Pediatric High-grade Gliomas | University of California, Davis Medical Center / Paul Knoepfler, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2015 | California |
| A Combinatorial Approach to Target the Tumor-Initiating and Transit Amplifying Cellular Subpopulations in Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma (DIPG) | Stanford University / Michelle Monje, MD, PhD | 'A' Award Grants | 2011 | California |
| Single-cell Profiling of Pediatric Bone Sarcomas | University of California, Los Angeles / Alice Soragni, PhD | Single-cell Pediatric Cancer Atlas Grant | 2019 | 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 |