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 1,500 funded projects below.
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ALSF Funded Research Projects
| Project Title | Institution / Principal Investigator(s) | Grant Type | Year |
State |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The influence of the raphe nucleus and serotonin on progression of diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma | Stanford University / Richard Drexler, MD/PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2024 | California |
| Developing and Distributing a Pediatric Spinal Cord High-grade Glioma Model | Stanford University / Michelle Monje, MD/PhD | Innovation Grants | 2016 | California |
| The role of OCT4 in self-renewal signaling and drug-resistance of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia | Children’s Hospital Los Angeles / Markus Muschen | Innovation Grants | 2008 | California |
| Understanding and inhibiting mechanisms of metastatic spread in osteosarcoma | University of California San Francisco / Alejandro Sweet-Cordero, MD | Crazy 8 Awards | 2022 | California |
| The Identification of Neuroblastoma Cancer Stem Cells. | Stanford University / Robert Cho | Young Investigator Grants | 2007 | California |
| Alternative Splicing Driven by MYCN Activates RAS-MAPK in Neuroblastoma | University of California San Francisco / William Weiss, MD/PhD | Innovation Grants | 2018 | 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 |
| Single-cell RNA-seq Profiling of Transcriptional Transition States During Human Retinoblastoma | Children’s Hospital Los Angeles / Sunhye Lee, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2016 | California |
| A comprehensive public resource for fusion-negative sarcoma sequencing data | University of California San Francisco / Alejandro Sweet-Cordero, MD & Richard Gorlick, MD | Crazy 8 Pilots | 2019 | California |
| Immunotherapeutic Targeting of Stem Cells in Pediatric Brain Tumors | Harbor - UCLA Medical Center / Joseph Lasky | Young Investigator Grants | 2008 | California |