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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Immunotherapeutic Targeting of Stem Cells in Pediatric Brain Tumors | Harbor - UCLA Medical Center / Joseph Lasky | Young Investigator Grants | 2008 | California |
| Role of Fetal Growth in Pediatric Rhabdomyosarcoma | University of California Berkeley / Catherine Metayer, MD, PhD | Epidemiology Grants | 2013 | California |
| Targeting TGFb Pathway Dependencies in Group 3 Medulloblastoma | University of California San Francisco / Zulekha Qadeer, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2019 | 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 |
| Targeted Degradation of Proliferative Transcription Factors in Pediatric Cancers | University of California at Santa Cruz / Seth Rubin, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2017 | California |
| Pathological Condensates and Transcription Dysregulation in Rhabdomyosarcoma at Single-Molecule Resolution | California Institute of Technology / Shasha Chong, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2024 | California |
| Identifying novel biomarkers for risk stratification in t-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). | University of California San Francisco / Michelle Hermiston, MD, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2009 | California |
| Characterization of the Role of Chromosome 1p Deletion in MYCN-Amplified Neuroblastoma | University of California San Francisco / Miller Huang, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2013 | 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 |
| Targeting the ALT Pathway to Induce Synthetic Lethality and Treat Poor Outcome Pediatric Tumors | University of California, Davis / Wolf-Dietrich Heyer, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2018 | California |