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 |
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Development of a comprehensive liquid biopsy-based genomics platform for pediatric solid tumors | Children’s Hospital Los Angeles / Jaclyn Biegel | Catalyst Grants | 2023 | 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 |
Central Venous Catheter (CVC) - Related Bloodstream Infections in Pediatric Cancer | Children’s Hospital Los Angeles / Rita Secola | Nurse Researcher Grants | 2009 | California |
Neural Stem Cell-Mediated Drug Delivery for Targeted Treatment of Medulloblastoma | Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope / Margarita Gutova, MD | Reach Grants | 2013 | California |
Targeting PI3Kdelta in Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia | Children’s Hospital Los Angeles / Yong-mi Kim, MD & Nora Heisterkamp, PhD | Reach Grants | 2015 | 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 |
Optimizing EGFR targeted therapy in pediatric malignant glioma. | University of California San Francisco / Theodore Nicolaides | Young Investigator Grants | 2009 | California |
Oncogenic Hedgehog Pathway Activation by a Putative Rho GTPase-Activating Protein | Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford University School of Medicine / Jun Ni, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2013 | California |
Collective cell invasion of fusion positive rhabdomyosarcoma regulated by PAX3-FOXO1 | Children’s Hospital Los Angeles / Jinseok Park, PhD | 'A' Award Grants | 2024 | California |
Defining how unique properties of the pediatric immune system contribute to poor efficacy of checkpoint blockade in children | Stanford University / Adrienne Long, MD/PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2024 | California |