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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Circulating Repetitive Element RNAs as an Osteosarcoma Marker | Children’s Hospital Los Angeles / David Cobrinik, MD/PhD | Innovation Grants | 2018 | California |
| Activation of Anti-Leukemia Immunity by Targeting Protein Arginine Methyltransferase | City of Hope National Medical Center / Ling Li, PhD | R Accelerated Award Grants | 2023 | California |
| New Approaches to Neuroblastoma Therapy | Children’s Hospital Los Angeles / Robert Seeger | Phase I/II Infrastructure Grants | 2008 | California |
| An Intersection of Cell Metabolism and Differentiation in Childhood Sarcomas | Cedars-Sinai Medical Center / Sandra Orsulic, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2013 | 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 |
| Antibody Targeted Natural Killer Cell-Derived Extracellular Vesicles for the Treatment of Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia and Neuroblastoma | Children’s Hospital Los Angeles / Robert Seeger, MD & Alan Wayne, MD | Innovation Grants | 2015 | California |
| Development of CAR-T therapy for Ewing sarcoma using zebrafish in vivo models | Children’s Hospital Los Angeles / James Amatruda, MD/PhD | Innovation Grants | 2024 | California |
| Defining the Role of a Novel, Developmentally Restricted Hematopoietic Stem Cell in Pediatric Leukemias | University of California at Santa Cruz / Camilla Forsberg, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2013 | California |
| Single Cell Analysis of Leukemia Initiation | Stanford University / Michael Cleary, MD | Innovation Grants | 2015 | California |
| Targeting Oncogenic N-MYC Complexes in High-Risk Neuroblastoma | The Regents of the University of California San Francisco / Bo Qiu, MD/PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2023 | California |