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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reciprocal interactions between tumor killer dendritic cells and tumor-induced regulatory T lymphocytes | University of Arizona / Nicolas Larmonier, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2008 | Arizona |
| COPE in Parents of Children Diagnosed with Cancer | University of Arizona / Gloanna Peek | Nurse Researcher Grants | 2011 | Arizona |
| Effects of CNS Treatment on the Hippocampus | University of Arizona / Ki Moore | Nurse Researcher Grants | 2009 | Arizona |
| Identifying Epistatic Suppressors of Oncohistone in Pediatric High-Grade Gliomas | BC Cancer (Provincial Health Services Authority) / Carol Chen, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2020 | British Columbia |
| Role of Fetal Growth in Pediatric Rhabdomyosarcoma | University of California Berkeley / Catherine Metayer, MD, PhD | Epidemiology Grants | 2013 | California |
| Targeting TGFb Pathway Dependencies in Group 3 Medulloblastoma | University of California San Francisco / Zulekha Qadeer, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2019 | California |
| Targeted Degradation of Proliferative Transcription Factors in Pediatric Cancers | University of California at Santa Cruz / Seth Rubin, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2017 | 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 |
| Identification of Aberrantly Methylated Differentially Expressed Genes to Distinguish High- vs. Low-Risk Retinoblastoma | Children’s Hospital Los Angeles / Jesse Berry, MD | Reach Grants | 2023 | California |
| Uncovering new approaches to target FOXR2 in pediatric cancers | Children’s Hospital Los Angeles / Jessica Tsai, MD/PhD | 'A' Award Grants | 2024 | California |