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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
Modeling Pediatric Leukemia in Zebra Fish to Enable Discovery of New Anti- Leukemic Compounds	University of California, San Diego / David Traver, MD	Innovation Grants	2010	California
Identifying Novel Therapeutic Combinations with 131I-MIBG to Treat Relapsed and Refractory Neuroblastoma	The Regents of the University of California San Francisco / William Clay Gustafson, M.D., Ph.D.	Reach Grants	2014	California
Preclinical Testing of Candidate Therapeutics in a Pediatric Spinal Cord High-grade Glioma Model	Stanford University / Michelle Monje, MD/PhD	Innovation Grants	2016	California
Neuronal Damage, Neurocognitive Losses and Quality of Life Following High-Dose Chemotherapy in Children with Brain Tumors	Children’s Hospital Los Angeles / Mary Nelson	Nurse Researcher Grants	2009	California
Determinants of Testicular Germ Cell Tumor Platinum Sensitivity and Resistance	University of California, San Diego / Paolo Abada	Young Investigator Grants	2012	California
Targeting TGFb Pathway Dependencies in Group 3 Medulloblastoma	University of California San Francisco / Zulekha Qadeer, PhD	Young Investigator Grants	2019	California
A Pilot Study of the Feasibility and Acceptability of an Interactive Computerized Symptom Assessment Tool to Assess Disease and Treatment-Related Symptoms Experienced by Children with Cancer	University of California San Francisco / Tina Baggott, RN, PhD, PNP	Nurse Researcher Grants	2009	California
Role of Fetal Growth in Pediatric Rhabdomyosarcoma	University of California Berkeley / Catherine Metayer, MD, PhD	Epidemiology Grants	2013	California
Predicting Outcome for Patients with Metastatic Neuroblastoma by Analysis of Bone Marrow and Blood for a Neuroblastoma Gene Expression Signature	Children’s Hospital Los Angeles / Robert Seeger	Innovation Grants	2010	California
Identification of Aberrantly Methylated Differentially Expressed Genes to Distinguish High- vs. Low-Risk Retinoblastoma	Children’s Hospital Los Angeles / Jesse Berry, MD	Reach Grants	2023	California

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