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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Studying the clonal dynamics and evolution of leukemia using molecular barcodes | Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford University School of Medicine / Matthew Porteus, MD, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2011 | California |
Histone H3.3 Targeted Therapy for Pediatric High-grade Gliomas | University of California, Davis Medical Center / Paul Knoepfler, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2015 | California |
Physical Properties of Drug-Resistant Leukemia Cells | Children’s Hospital Los Angeles / Yong-mi Kim, MD/PhD | Innovation Grants | 2018 | California |
Modeling Pediatric Leukemia in Zebra Fish to Enable Discovery of New Anti- Leukemic Compounds | University of California, San Diego / David Traver, MD | Innovation Grants | 2010 | California |
Blockade of MYCN in neuroblastoma | University of California San Francisco / William Weiss, MD/PhD | Innovation Grants | 2011 | California |
Neuronal Damage, Neurocognitive Losses and Quality of Life Following High-Dose Chemotherapy in Children with Brain Tumors | Children’s Hospital Los Angeles / Mary Nelson | Nurse Researcher Grants | 2009 | California |
Targeting the Six1/Eya Transcriptional Complex to Inhibit Pediatric Sarcomas | University of Colorado Denver / Heide Ford, Ph.D. | Innovation Grants | 2014 | Colorado |
Role of Protocadherin-9 in Enabling Leukemia Cell Colonization of the CNS | National Jewish Health / Jordan Jacobelli, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2017 | Colorado |
DNA methylation in medulloblastoma | University of Colorado Denver / Rajeev Vibhakar, MD, PhD, MPH | Young Investigator Grants | 2007 | Colorado |
Advancing Program Development and Support for the Pediatric Experimental Therapeutics Program at The Children's Hospital, Denver | Children’s Hospital Colorado / Lia Gore, MD | Phase I/II Infrastructure Grants | 2007 | Colorado |