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 Pediatric Leukemia in the Zebrafish to Enable Discovery of New Anti-Leukemic Compounds | University of California, San Diego / David Traver, MD | Innovation Grants | 2012 | California |
Role of Fetal Growth in Pediatric Rhabdomyosarcoma | University of California Berkeley / Catherine Metayer, MD, PhD | Epidemiology Grants | 2013 | 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 |
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 |
Targeted Degradation of Proliferative Transcription Factors in Pediatric Cancers | University of California at Santa Cruz / Seth Rubin, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2017 | California |
Investigating the Role of Genetic and Epigenetic Variation in Risk of Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia in Down Syndrome | University of California San Francisco / Adam de Smith, Ph.D. | 'A' Award Grants | 2014 | California |
Optimizing EGFR targeted therapy in pediatric malignant glioma. | University of California San Francisco / Theodore Nicolaides | Young Investigator Grants | 2009 | California |
Altered Cerebral Blood Flow after Pediatric Posterior Fossa Brain Tumor Treatment | Children's Hospital Los Angeles / Mary Baron Nelson, RN/PhD | Nurse Researcher Grants | 2016 | California |
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 |
Targeting TGFb Pathway Dependencies in Group 3 Medulloblastoma | University of California San Francisco / Zulekha Qadeer, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2019 | California |