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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saving Lives, Saving Neurons, the Head Start Consortium for Young Children with Malignant Central Nervous System Tumors | Children’s Hospital Los Angeles / Jonathan Finlay, MD | Phase I/II Infrastructure Grants | 2007 | California |
| Targeted Degradation of Proliferative Transcription Factors in Pediatric Cancers | University of California at Santa Cruz / Seth Rubin, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2017 | 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 |
| Enhancing Effectiveness of Immune Checkpoint Therapy in Neuroblastoma | Children’s Hospital Los Angeles / Shahab Asgharzadeh, MD | Innovation Grants | 2015 | California |
| Perinatal Hormonal Biomarkers and Risk of Testicular Germ Cell Tumors | University of California Berkeley / Catherine Metayer, MD, PhD | Epidemiology Grants | 2014 | California |
| Modeling Anaplastic Medulloblastoma using Cerebellar Stem Cells | Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute / Robert Wechsler-Reya, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2011 | 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 |
| 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 |
| Predicting Outcome and Ameliorating Toxicities of the Immunotherapy of Neuroblastoma | University of California, San Diego / Alice Yu, MD, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2011 | California |
| MLL Oncogene-Dependent Enhancer Reprogramming Promotes Leukemogenesis | Stanford University / Feng Pan, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2019 | California |