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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| High-Throughput Gene-Editing via Microfluidic Cell Deformability to Enable Off-the-Shelf Allogeneic Cellular Immunotherapies | University of California, Los Angeles / Steven Jonas, MD/PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2017 | California |
| Enhancing TKI Therapy in Ph-Like Leukemia | The Regents of the University of California, Irvine / David Fruman, PhD | Reach Grants | 2022 | California |
| Symptom Burden, Health-Related Quality of Life and Health Care Utilization Among Children Undergoing Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation: Impact of Parent Sleep, Fatigue and Psychological Distress | Children’s Hospital Los Angeles / Jessica Ward, PhD | Nurse Researcher Fellowship Grant | 2017 | California |
| New Approaches to Neuroblastoma Therapy | Children’s Hospital Los Angeles / Robert Seeger | Phase I/II Infrastructure Grants | 2008 | California |
| Modeling Pediatric Leukemia in the Zebrafish to Enable Discovery of New Anti-Leukemic Compounds | University of California, San Diego / David Traver, MD | Innovation Grants | 2012 | California |
| The Role of Tumor Heterogeneity in Relapse of Pediatric Acute Myeloid Leukemia | Children’s Hospital & Research Center at Oakland / Cheryl Peretz, MD | Young Investigator Grants | 2019 | California |
| Circulating Repetitive Element RNAs as an Osteosarcoma Marker | Children’s Hospital Los Angeles / David Cobrinik, MD/PhD | Innovation Grants | 2018 | California |
| Activation of Anti-Leukemia Immunity by Targeting Protein Arginine Methyltransferase | City of Hope National Medical Center / Ling Li, PhD | R Accelerated Award Grants | 2023 | California |
| Development of CAR-T therapy for Ewing sarcoma using zebrafish in vivo models | Children’s Hospital Los Angeles / James Amatruda, MD/PhD | Innovation Grants | 2024 | California |
| Synergistic Activity of Anti-GD2 Antibody and CD47-Blockade for Immunotherapy of Neuroblastoma and Osteosarcoma | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University / Robbie Majzner, MD | 'A' Award Grants | 2019 | California |