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 |
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The Identification of Neuroblastoma Cancer Stem Cells. | Stanford University / Robert Cho | Young Investigator Grants | 2007 | California |
Studying the clonal dynamics and evolution of leukemia using molecular barcodes | Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford University School of Medicine / Matthew Porteus, MD, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2011 | California |
Improving Thymus Function by RB Inactivation | Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford University School of Medicine / Julien Sage, PhD | Springboard Grants | 2012 | California |
Circulating Repetitive Element RNAs as an Osteosarcoma Marker | Children’s Hospital Los Angeles / David Cobrinik, MD/PhD | Innovation Grants | 2018 | California |
Blockade of MYCN in neuroblastoma | University of California San Francisco / William Weiss, MD/PhD | Innovation Grants | 2011 | California |
Novel Resilience Genes Required for Cerebellum Development and Medulloblastoma Survival | University of California San Francisco / Stephen Fancy, PhD, DVM | Innovation Grants | 2023 | California |
Immunotherapeutic Targeting of Stem Cells in Pediatric Brain Tumors | Harbor - UCLA Medical Center / Joseph Lasky | Young Investigator Grants | 2008 | California |
A comprehensive public resource for fusion-negative sarcoma sequencing data | University of California San Francisco / Alejandro Sweet-Cordero, MD & Richard Gorlick, MD | Crazy 8 Pilots | 2019 | 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 |
Characterization of Pre-Leukemia Associated with Familial RUNX1 Mutations | Stanford University / Ravi Majeti, MD/PhD | RARE Grant Program (Research Accelerating RUNX1 Exploration) | 2016 | California |