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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Pain and Symptom Experiences in Children with Cancer | University of California, Los Angeles / Eufemia Jacob, PhD, RN | Nurse Researcher Grants | 2007 | California |
Targeting the ALT Pathway to Induce Synthetic Lethality and Treat Poor Outcome Pediatric Tumors | University of California, Davis / Wolf-Dietrich Heyer, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2018 | California |
Targeting Aberrant Hh Signaling with BET Bromodomain Inhibition as a Novel Therapeutic Strategy Against MB and DIPG | Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford University School of Medicine / Yujie Tang, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2014 | 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 |
Develop a Therapeutic Vaccine Approach by Removing Viral Immune Evasion | University of California, Los Angeles / Ren Sun, PhD | Springboard Grants | 2013 | California |
Overcoming Glucocorticoid Resistance in Lymphoid Cancers | University of California San Francisco / Anica Wandler, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2017 | California |
Physical Properties of Drug-Resistant Leukemia Cells | Children's Hospital Los Angeles / Yong-mi Kim, MD/PhD | Innovation Grants | 2018 | California |
Targeting the Accomplices of MYC in MYC-driven Medulloblastoma | Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute / Robert Wechsler-Reya, Ph.D. | Innovation Grants | 2014 | California |
Preclinical Development of a First-in-Class PCNA Inhibitor for Treating Neuroblastoma | City of Hope National Medical Center / Linda Malkas, PhD | Reach Grants | 2019 | California |