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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Neural Crest Gene Regulatory Networks Underlying Normal Meningeal Development and Onset of Meningioma | California Institute of Technology / Ayyappa Raja Desingu Rajan, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2021 | California |
| Modeling Pediatric Leukemia in Zebra Fish to Enable Discovery of New Anti- Leukemic Compounds | University of California, San Diego / David Traver, MD | Innovation Grants | 2010 | California |
| Modeling osteosarcoma to identify novel therapeutic targets. | Stanford University / Julien Sage | Young Investigator Grants | 2006 | California |
| Blockade of MYCN in neuroblastoma | University of California San Francisco / William Weiss, MD/PhD | Innovation Grants | 2011 | California |
| In vivo transdermal generation of CD33 CAR T-cells towards acute myeloid leukemia | University of California, Los Angeles / Ruby Sims, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2024 | California |
| Role of PHF6 Mutations in Germline RUNX1 Deficiency Associated Hematopoietic Disorders | The Regents of the University of California San Francisco / Serine Avagyan, MD/PhD | RUNX1 Early Career Investigator Grants | 2021 | California |
| Identifying Novel Therapeutic Combinations with 131I-MIBG to Treat Relapsed and Refractory Neuroblastoma | The Regents of the University of California San Francisco / William Clay Gustafson, M.D., Ph.D. | Reach Grants | 2014 | California |
| Neuronal Damage, Neurocognitive Losses and Quality of Life Following High-Dose Chemotherapy in Children with Brain Tumors | Children’s Hospital Los Angeles / Mary Nelson | Nurse Researcher Grants | 2009 | 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 |