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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Role of Fetal Growth in Pediatric Rhabdomyosarcoma | University of California Berkeley / Catherine Metayer, MD, PhD | Epidemiology Grants | 2013 | California |
| Enhancing Effectiveness of Immune Checkpoint Therapy in Neuroblastoma | Children’s Hospital Los Angeles / Shahab Asgharzadeh, MD | Innovation Grants | 2015 | California |
| Saturating CRISPR gene body scans in MLL-rearranged leukemia | Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope / Chun-Wei Chen, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2019 | California |
| Targeting inhibitory phosphatase signaling in high-risk childhood ALL | University of California San Francisco / Markus Muschen, MD, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2011 | California |
| Pediatric Developmental Therapeutics Center of Excellence at UCSF | University of California San Francisco / Katherine Matthay, MD, Kieuhoa Vo, MD, - Scholars: Amit Sabnis, MD, Lena Winestone, MD/MSHP, Beth Winger, MD/PhD, Bo Qiu, MD/PhD | Center of Excellence Grants | 2012 | California |
| Adoptive Immunotherapy of Tr1 Cells to Improve Outcome of Allo-HSCT Treatment for Pediatric AML | Stanford University / Maria-Grazia Roncarolo, MD & Rosa Bachetta, MD | Reach 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 |
| Enhancing Immunotherapy of Neuroblastoma | The Regents of the University of California, San Diego / Alice Yu, MD/PhD & Mitchell Diccianni, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2016 | California |
| Targeting PI3Kdelta in Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia | Children’s Hospital Los Angeles / Yong-mi Kim, MD & Nora Heisterkamp, PhD | Reach Grants | 2015 | California |
| Reversing the Oncogenic Roles of Misdirected Chromatin Remodeling in Synovial Sarcoma | Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford University School of Medicine / Cigall Kadoch, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2013 | California |