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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Targeting the ALT Pathway to Induce Synthetic Lethality and Treat Poor Outcome Pediatric Tumors | University of California, Davis / Wolf-Dietrich Heyer, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2018 | California |
| Targeting Secondary Mutations in Juvenile Myelomonocytic Leukemia | University of California San Francisco / Elliot Stieglitz, MD | Young Investigator Grants | 2015 | California |
| Intervention Development and Evaluation to Reduce Disparities in Quality of Life for Latino Families Impacted by Cancer | The Regents of the University of California, Irvine / Michelle Fortier, PhD | Psychosocial Family Impact Grant | 2019 | California |
| Genomic Alterations in Medulloblastoma | Children’s Hospital Los Angeles / Shahab Asgharzadeh, MD | Young Investigator Grants | 2008 | 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 |
| The influence of the raphe nucleus and serotonin on progression of diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma | Stanford University / Richard Drexler, MD/PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2024 | California |
| A Novel Target for Neuroblastoma Treatment | Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope / Linda Malkas, Ph.D. | Reach Grants | 2014 | California |