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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Immunotherapeutic Targeting of Stem Cells in Pediatric Brain Tumors | Harbor - UCLA Medical Center / Joseph Lasky | Young Investigator Grants | 2008 | California |
| Expanding Innovative Pediatric Cancer Clinical Trial Access at Stanford | Stanford University / Maria-Grazia Roncarolo, M.D. & Sherri Spunt, M.D. | Phase I/II Infrastructure Grants | 2015 | California |
| Identifying Novel Therapeutic Combinations with 131I-MIBG to Treat Relapsed and Refractory Neuroblastoma | The Regents of the University of California San Francisco / William Clay Gustafson, M.D., Ph.D. | Reach Grants | 2014 | California |
| A Combinatorial Approach to Target the Tumor-Initiating and Transit Amplifying Cellular Subpopulations in Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma (DIPG) | Stanford University / Michelle Monje, MD, PhD | 'A' Award Grants | 2011 | California |
| Determinants of Testicular Germ Cell Tumor Platinum Sensitivity and Resistance | University of California, San Diego / Paolo Abada | Young Investigator Grants | 2012 | California |
| Endocrine Disrupting Pesticides, Neonatal Hormones and Risk of Testicular Germ Cell Tumors | University of California Berkeley / Catherine Metayer, MD, PhD | Epidemiology Grants | 2018 | 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 |
| Identifying novel biomarkers for risk stratification in t-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). | University of California San Francisco / Michelle Hermiston, MD, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2009 | California |
| Pathological Condensates and Transcription Dysregulation in Rhabdomyosarcoma at Single-Molecule Resolution | California Institute of Technology / Shasha Chong, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2024 | California |