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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The role of OCT4 in self-renewal signaling and drug-resistance of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia | Children’s Hospital Los Angeles / Markus Muschen | Innovation Grants | 2008 | California |
| A Novel Target for Neuroblastoma Treatment | Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope / Linda Malkas, Ph.D. | Reach Grants | 2014 | California |
| DMG: From SWI/SNF’s role in cholesterol biosynthesis to new therapeutic opportunities | Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University / Capucine Van Rechem, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2024 | California |
| Investigation of Oncogenic Long Non-coding RNAs in Ewing sarcoma | Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford University School of Medicine / Siu Ping Ngok, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2014 | California |
| CLL-1 CAR-T cells with or without trametinib for the treatment of JMML | The Regents of the University of California San Francisco / Elliot Stieglitz, MD | R Accelerated Award Grants | 2023 | California |
| Pain and Symptom Experiences in Children with Cancer | University of California, Los Angeles / Eufemia Jacob, PhD, RN | Nurse Researcher Grants | 2007 | California |
| Targeting eEF2 Kinase in Neuroblastoma | University of California San Francisco / William Weiss, M.D., Ph.D. | Innovation Grants | 2014 | 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 |
| The Identification of Neuroblastoma Cancer Stem Cells. | Stanford University / Robert Cho | Young Investigator Grants | 2007 | California |
| Understanding and inhibiting mechanisms of metastatic spread in osteosarcoma | University of California San Francisco / Alejandro Sweet-Cordero, MD | Crazy 8 Awards | 2022 | California |