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 1,000 funded projects below.
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ALSF Funded Research Projects
| Project Title | Institution / Principal Investigator(s) | Grant Type | Year |
State |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Predicting Outcome and Ameliorating Toxicities of the Immunotherapy of Neuroblastoma | University of California, San Diego / Alice Yu, 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 |
| Targeted Degradation of Proliferative Transcription Factors in Pediatric Cancers | University of California at Santa Cruz / Seth Rubin, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2017 | California |
| Antibody Targeted Natural Killer Cell-Derived Extracellular Vesicles for the Treatment of Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia and Neuroblastoma | Children's Hospital Los Angeles / Robert Seeger, MD & Alan Wayne, MD | Innovation Grants | 2015 | California |
| STING Pathway Activation: The Missing Link between Genomic Instability and Antitumor Immunity in Osteosarcoma | University of California San Francisco / Elizabeth Young, MD | Young Investigator Grants | 2021 | California |
| Determinants of Testicular Germ Cell Tumor Platinum Sensitivity and Resistance | University of California, San Diego / Paolo Abada | Young Investigator Grants | 2012 | California |
| Optimizing EGFR targeted therapy in pediatric malignant glioma. | University of California San Francisco / Theodore Nicolaides | Young Investigator Grants | 2009 | California |
| Targeting TGFb Pathway Dependencies in Group 3 Medulloblastoma | University of California San Francisco / Zulekha Qadeer, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2019 | California |
| Single-cell RNA-seq Profiling of Transcriptional Transition States During Human Retinoblastoma | Children's Hospital Los Angeles / Sunhye Lee, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2016 | California |
| Defining the Role of a Novel, Developmentally Restricted Hematopoietic Stem Cell in Pediatric Leukemias | University of California at Santa Cruz / Camilla Forsberg, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2013 | California |