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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Application of Epigenetic Markers for Early Detection of Childhood Leukemia. | University of California San Francisco / Sheng Zhong | Epidemiology Grants | 2008 | California |
| 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 |
| Investigation of Oncogenic Long Non-coding RNAs in Ewing sarcoma | Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford University School of Medicine / Siu Ping Ngok, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2014 | California |
| High-Throughput Gene-Editing via Microfluidic Cell Deformability to Enable Off-the-Shelf Allogeneic Cellular Immunotherapies | University of California, Los Angeles / Steven Jonas, MD/PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2017 | California |
| Understanding and inhibiting mechanisms of metastatic spread in osteosarcoma | University of California San Francisco / Alejandro Sweet-Cordero, MD | Crazy 8 Awards | 2022 | California |
| Targeting eEF2 Kinase in Neuroblastoma | University of California San Francisco / William Weiss, M.D., Ph.D. | Innovation Grants | 2014 | California |
| Symptom Burden, Health-Related Quality of Life and Health Care Utilization Among Children Undergoing Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation: Impact of Parent Sleep, Fatigue and Psychological Distress | Children’s Hospital Los Angeles / Jessica Ward, PhD | Nurse Researcher Fellowship Grant | 2017 | California |
| The Identification of Neuroblastoma Cancer Stem Cells. | Stanford University / Robert Cho | Young Investigator Grants | 2007 | California |
| Modeling Pediatric Leukemia in the Zebrafish to Enable Discovery of New Anti-Leukemic Compounds | University of California, San Diego / David Traver, MD | Innovation Grants | 2012 | California |
| Circulating Repetitive Element RNAs as an Osteosarcoma Marker | Children’s Hospital Los Angeles / David Cobrinik, MD/PhD | Innovation Grants | 2018 | California |