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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Investigating Racial Disparities in Pediatric Acute Leukemia | University of California San Francisco / Lena Winestone, MD | Young Investigator Grants | 2016 | California |
Blockade of Mycn in neuroblastoma | University of California San Francisco / William Weiss | Innovation Grants | 2008 | California |
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 |
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 |
Saving Lives, Saving Neurons, the Head Start Consortium for Young Children with Malignant Central Nervous System Tumors | Children’s Hospital Los Angeles / Jonathan Finlay, MD | Phase I/II Infrastructure Grants | 2007 | 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 |
New Approaches to Neuroblastoma Therapy (NANT) Consortium | Children’s Hospital Los Angeles / Robert Seeger, MD | Phase I/II Infrastructure Grants | 2006 | 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 |
High-dimensional Biochemical CyTOF Analysis of Pediatric T cell Leukemias | University of California San Francisco / Jeroen Roose, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2015 | California |
Overcoming Glucocorticoid Resistance in Lymphoid Cancers | University of California San Francisco / Anica Wandler, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2017 | California |