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 |
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Maternal Comorbidities, Pharmaceutical Use and Childhood Cancers: A Record Linkage Study in Taiwan | University of California, Los Angeles / Julia Heck, PhD | Epidemiology Grants | 2017 | California |
Pediatric Developmental Therapeutics Center of Excellence at UCSF | University of California San Francisco / Katherine Matthay, MD, Kieuhoa Vo, MD, - Scholars: Amit Sabnis, MD, Lena Winestone, MD/MSHP, Beth Winger, MD/PhD, Bo Qiu, MD/PhD | Center of Excellence Grants | 2012 | California |
Overcoming Glucocorticoid Resistance in Lymphoid Cancers | University of California San Francisco / Anica Wandler, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2017 | California |
Development of a comprehensive liquid biopsy-based genomics platform for pediatric solid tumors | Children’s Hospital Los Angeles / Jaclyn Biegel | Catalyst Grants | 2023 | California |
Perinatal Hormonal Biomarkers and Risk of Testicular Germ Cell Tumors | University of California Berkeley / Catherine Metayer, MD, PhD | Epidemiology Grants | 2014 | California |
Child's Exposure to Radiation from Medical Imaging and the Risk of Childhood Leukemia: Pooled Analyses from the Childhood Leukemia International Consortium (CLIC) | University of California Berkeley / Catherine Metayer, MD/PhD & Steve Selvin, PhD | Epidemiology Grants | 2016 | California |
Blockade of p53 and Aurora A in Therapy Resistant Neuroblastoma | University of California San Francisco / William Clay Gustafson, MD, PhD | 'A' Award Grants | 2011 | California |
Reversing the Oncogenic Roles of Misdirected Chromatin Remodeling in Synovial Sarcoma | Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford University School of Medicine / Cigall Kadoch, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2013 | California |
Single-Cell Profiling of Acute Myeloid Leukemia for High-Resolution Chemo-immunotherapy Target Discovery | Stanford University School of Medicine / Charles Gawad, MD/PhD | Single-cell Pediatric Cancer Atlas Grant | 2019 | 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 |