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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alternative Splicing Driven by MYCN Activates RAS-MAPK in Neuroblastoma | University of California San Francisco / William Weiss, MD/PhD | Innovation Grants | 2018 | California |
| Histone H3.3 Targeted Therapy for Pediatric High-grade Gliomas | University of California, Davis Medical Center / Paul Knoepfler, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2015 | 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 |
| GD2-directed CAR T cell therapy for H3K27M+ spinal cord diffuse midline glioma | Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University / Michelle Monje | Catalyst Grants | 2021 | California |
| Blockade of MYCN in neuroblastoma | University of California San Francisco / William Weiss, MD/PhD | Innovation Grants | 2011 | California |
| Blockade of Mycn in neuroblastoma | University of California San Francisco / William Weiss | Innovation Grants | 2008 | California |
| Physical Properties of Drug-Resistant Leukemia Cells | Children's Hospital Los Angeles / Yong-mi Kim, MD/PhD | Innovation Grants | 2018 | California |
| An Intersection of Cell Metabolism and Differentiation in Childhood Sarcomas | Cedars-Sinai Medical Center / Sandra Orsulic, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2013 | California |
| Targeting the Accomplices of MYC in MYC-driven Medulloblastoma | Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute / Robert Wechsler-Reya, Ph.D. | Innovation Grants | 2014 | 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 |