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 1,000 funded projects below.
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ALSF Funded Research Projects
| Project Title | Institution / Principal Investigator(s) | Grant Type | Year |
State |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A Novel Target for Neuroblastoma Treatment | Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope / Linda Malkas, Ph.D. | Reach Grants | 2014 | California |
| New Approaches to Neuroblastoma Therapy | Children's Hospital Los Angeles / Robert Seeger | Phase I/II Infrastructure Grants | 2008 | 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 |
| 131-I-MIBG and Targeted Therapy for Neuroblastoma: Infrastructure Proposal. | University of California San Francisco / Katherine Matthay, MD | Phase I/II Infrastructure Grants | 2007 | California |
| Alternative Splicing Driven by MYCN Activates RAS-MAPK in Neuroblastoma | University of California San Francisco / William Weiss, MD/PhD | Innovation Grants | 2018 | California |
| Identification and Characterization of an Epigenetic Program that Maintains the Self-Renewal of MLL Myeloid Leukemia Stem Cells | Stanford University / Hon-Kit Wong | Young Investigator Grants | 2010 | California |
| Modeling Anaplastic Medulloblastoma using Cerebellar Stem Cells | Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute / Robert Wechsler-Reya, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2011 | California |
| Targeting Secondary Mutations in Juvenile Myelomonocytic Leukemia | University of California San Francisco / Elliot Stieglitz, MD | Young Investigator Grants | 2015 | 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 |
| 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 |