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 |
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Perinatal Hormonal Biomarkers and Risk of Testicular Germ Cell Tumors | University of California Berkeley / Catherine Metayer, MD, PhD | Epidemiology Grants | 2014 | California |
Child's Exposure to Radiation from Medical Imaging and the Risk of Childhood Leukemia: Pooled Analyses from the Childhood Leukemia International Consortium (CLIC) | University of California Berkeley / Catherine Metayer, MD/PhD & Steve Selvin, PhD | Epidemiology Grants | 2016 | California |
Genomic Alterations in Medulloblastoma | Children’s Hospital Los Angeles / Shahab Asgharzadeh, MD | Young Investigator Grants | 2008 | California |
In-vivo characterization of MYCN-driven immunosuppression | University of California San Francisco / William Weiss, MD/PhD | Innovation Grants | 2021 | California |
131 I-MIBG Imaging and Therapy for Neuroblastoma: Infrastructure Proposal | University of California San Francisco / Katherine Matthay, MD | Phase I/II Infrastructure Grants | 2010 | California |
Overcoming Obstacles to Drug Development in Pediatric Cancer | Stanford University School of Medicine / Crystal L. Mackall, MD | Crazy 8 Pilots | 2019 | California |
Single-Cell Profiling of Acute Myeloid Leukemia for High-Resolution Chemo-immunotherapy Target Discovery | Stanford University School of Medicine / Charles Gawad, MD/PhD | Single-cell Pediatric Cancer Atlas Grant | 2019 | California |
Detection of Circulating Tumor DNA in Pediatric Sarcomas | The Regents of the University of California San Francisco / Alejandro Sweet-Cordero, MD & Maximillian Diehn, MD/PhD (Stanford University) | Innovation Grants | 2016 | California |
Investigation of Genetic and Molecular Mechanisms of Second Malignant Neoplasms in a Mouse Model | University of California San Francisco / Jean Nakamura | Young Investigator Grants | 2011 | California |
Factors Affecting Parental Satisfaction, Anxiety and Comprehension of the Informed Consent in Pediatric Oncology Clinical Trials | University of California, San Diego / Paula Aristizabal, MD | Psychosocial Grants | 2015 | California |