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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Enhancing Immunotherapy of Neuroblastoma | The Regents of the University of California, San Diego / Alice Yu, MD/PhD & Mitchell Diccianni, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2016 | California |
| Overcoming Glucocorticoid Resistance in Lymphoid Cancers | University of California San Francisco / Anica Wandler, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2017 | California |
| Perinatal Hormonal Biomarkers and Risk of Testicular Germ Cell Tumors | University of California Berkeley / Catherine Metayer, MD, PhD | Epidemiology Grants | 2014 | California |
| Phase II Trial of Poly-ICLC in Pediatric Low Grade Gliomas | University of California, San Diego / Donald Durden, MD, PhD | Springboard Grants | 2013 | 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 |
| Assess the activity of ABT-737 as a single agent against neuroblastoma cell lines grown in cell culture | Children’s Hospital Los Angeles / Theresa Harned, MD | Young Investigator Grants | 2006 | California |
| Single-Cell Profiling of Acute Myeloid Leukemia for High-Resolution Chemo-immunotherapy Target Discovery | Stanford University School of Medicine / Charles Gawad, MD/PhD | Single-cell Pediatric Cancer Atlas Grant | 2019 | 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 |
| In-vivo characterization of MYCN-driven immunosuppression | University of California San Francisco / William Weiss, MD/PhD | Innovation Grants | 2021 | California |