Who We Fund
Since 1949, LLS has provided more than $1.7 billion to the best and the brightest blood cancer researchers and biotech companies to support their groundbreaking research. Meet grantees and the companies who’ve joined our fight to find cures and help blood cancer patients everywhere.
Ricky Johnstone
lymphoma and myeloma
Mark Dawson
B-ALL and CAR-T resistance
Peter Klein
MDS
Amin Sobh
Myeloma biology
Rong Lu
preleukemia, leukemia
Frederike Kramer
MPNs
Sam Butterworth
CMML
Justine Kahn
pediatric leukemia and lymphoma
Caribou Biosciences
immunotherapy, allo-CAR, NHL, MM, AML
Saar Gill
AML immunotherapy
Eric Pietras
AML
Caroline Arber
myeloma CAR-T
Alfred Garfall
myeloma immunotherapy
Margaret Shipp
lymphoma biology
Christine Zhang
AML
Robert Soiffer
transplantation
Pietro Genovese
transplant and AML
David Fruman
novel combinations
Mendel Goldfinger
MDS/AML trials for the elderly
Robert Bradley
MDS
Marina Konopleva
MDS/AML metabolism
Dan Vogl
myeloma, microenvironment
Thorsten Zenz
Hairy cell leukemia
Elliot Stieglitz
CMML
Julia Paczkowska
immunobiology of Hodgkin's disease
Robert Orlowski
(Smoldering) Multiple Myeloma
Omar Abdel-Wahab
Hairy cell leukemia
Jolanta Grembecka
leukemia therapeutics
Eric Padron
CMML
Michael Rout
follicular lymphoma, CAR T
Faron Pharmaceuticals
immunotherapy, MDS
Julia Maxson
AML
Thomas LeBlanc
palliative care
Lawrence Boise
CART and myeloma
Eugenio Morelli
Myeloma
William Matsui
Myeloma
Michael Savona
MDS and leukemia
Sergei Doulatov
Leukemias
Alexey Danilov
lymphoma
John Leonard
lymphoma research
Stephen Gottschalk
pediatric leukemia and CAR-T
Amit Verma
AML/MDS
Wendy Stock
T-cell ALL
Frederick Locke
lymphoma and immunotherapy
Steven Horwitz
T-cell lymphomas
Gareth Morgan
smoldering myeloma, MGUS
Jennifer Woyach
CLL trials
Sameer Parikh
COVID-19
Kehan Ren
MDS
Tomasz Skorski
myeloproliferative neoplasms, AML
Megan McNerney
AML/MDS
Aditi Shastri
AML, MDS
Ravi Bhatia
transplantation
Baochun Zhang
immunotherapy
Catherine Bollard
pediatric blood cancers and immunotherapy
Enterome
vaccine, FL, MZL
Michael Wang
Mantle Cell Lymphoma
Logan Spector
childhood leukemia epidimiology
Zhijian Qian
blood cancer stem cells
Christiane Querfeld
T-cell lymphoma
Catherine Smith
leukemia
Thomas Koehnke
leukemia
Jeffrey Magee
pediatric AML
Marco Ruella
Immunotherapy for T-cell lymphoma
Maximilian Stahl
AML immunotherapy
Ruben Carrasco
Myeloma
Daniel Pollyea
AML
Jonathon Cohen
lymphoma clinical trial access in Georgia
Qingyu Luo
BPDCN
Stephen Oh
myeloproliferative neoplasms
Adam de Smith
pediatric ALL and Down Syndrome
Takeshi Sugio
T-cell lymphoma
Kevin Shannon
pediatric AML
Susan Schwab
cancer immunology
Daniel Thomas
Myelofibrosis
Sigurður Kristinsson
Smoldering myeloma
Gianpietro Dotti
CAR T and AML
Neha Mehta-Shah
T-cell lymphoma
Ryvu Therapeutics
AML, MDS
Jing Yang
Myeloma
Timothy Ley
AML, precision medicine
Rgenta Therapeutics
RNA-targeting, blood cancer
Jonathan Licht
DNA biology, myeloma
Taishi Yonezawa
AML
Srividya Swaminathan
pediatric, immunotherapy
Kathleen Sakamoto
pediatric AML
Ann-Kathrin Eisfeld
Racial diversity in AML
John Crispino
MPNs, myelofibrosis
Dane Vassiliadis
blood cancer biology
Patrizia Mondello
IgM MGUS & Waldenstrom Macroglobulinemia
Soheil Meshinchi
pediatric AML
Adam Olszewski
Follicular and marginal zone lymphoma
Enrico Tiacci
Hairy cell leukemia
Hao Jiang
leukemia biology
Nirav Shah
CAR-T for lymphoma
Nitin Jain
CLL
Keisuke Ito
blood cancer stem cells and MDS metabolism
Christian Steidl
B-cell lymphomas
Alex Herrera
lymphoma and immunotherapy
Jason Butler
aging and leukemia
Nathan Ungerleider
lymphoma biology
Catriona Jamieson
cancer stem cell biology
Mark Hamilton
DLBCL and CAR-T
Arash Alizadeh
blood cancer biology and diagnosis
Jaehyuk Choi
T-cell lymphoma
Shirong Li
myeloma
Xu Ji
Equity in Access
Abintus Bio
immunotherapy, in vivo CAR
Areej El-Jawahri
transplant survivorship
Selina Chen-Kiang
Mantle cell lymphoma
Liling Wan
AML
Sami Malek
blood cancer biology
Koichi Takahashi
AML/MDS
Markus Muschen
leukemia and lymphoma biology
Stacie Dusetzina
Equity in Access
Jennifer Trowbridge
aging and leukemia
Larry Kwak
Mantle cell lymphoma, immunotherapy
Caner Saygin
T-ALL
Paolo Strati
Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma
Mala Shanmugam
myeloma
Christopher Flowers
clinical trial access
Sahand Hormoz
MPN
Alieen Rowan
Adult T cell leukemia/lymphoma
Daniel Herranz
T-ALL
Yusuke Isshiki
DLBCL and GCB Lymphomas
Martin Dreyling
Mantle Cell Lymphoma
Sisi Chen
leukemia
Wendy Béguelin
follicular lymphoma
Alexandra Stevens
childhood AML
Noemí Puig Morón
Myeloma
Maria "Ken" Figueroa
aging and leukemia
Therese Vu
T-All and MLL
Bruno Paiva
smoldering myeloma
Brian Walker
smoldering myeloma, MGUS
Alec Zhang
myeloma, immunotherapy
Michael Kharas
leukemia
Lei Ding
myeloproliferative neoplasms, myelofibrosis
Matthew Frank
Lymphoma CART therapy
Hong Wen
AML
Caron Jacobson
lymphoma and immunotherapy
Immunitas Therapeutics
immunotherapy, DLBCL, Hodgkin's
G. Greg Wang
DNA biology
Juliette Bouyssou
leukemias and gender
Nicolas Nassar
pediatric leukemia
F. Lennie Wong
Equity in Access
Sattva Neelapu
DLBCL, CAR T
Peng Ji
myeloproliferative neoplasms
Kasey Leger
pediatric blood cancers
Dimericon Therapeutics
dimericons, blood cancer
Richard Lock
T-ALL
Christian Marinaccio
MLL leukemias
Zachary Epstein-Peterson
Peripheral T-cell lymphoma trial
Mitchell Geer
leukemia biology
Kirsten Williams
leukemia, immunotherapy
Jaroslaw Maciejewski
bone marrow failure
Ronald Levy
immunotherapies, COVID-19
Carl Allen
pediatric blood cancers
Andrew Lane
BPDCN
Piers Patten
COVID-19
David Ritchie
Hairy Cell Leukemia
Liran Shlush
pre-leukemia
Michael Green
lymphoma biology
Courtney Jones
AML metabolism
Rizwan Romee
Immunotherapy
Alison Moskowitz
lymphoma therapeutics
Kymera Therapeutics
protein degraders, TCL, LGLL, AML
Carl June
CAR T immunotherapy
Christopher Porter
Leukemia, lymphoma
Todd Fehniger
NK/CART cell therapy for lymphomas and pediatric AML
Suzanne Lentzsch
Myeloma
Suman Paul
T cell cancers and immunotherapy
Tycel Phillips
Mantle Cell Lymphoma
Cailin Collins
Leukemia and pre-leukemia
Vittoria Biotherapeutics
immunotherapy, CAR-T, TCL
Jayna Mistry
aging and leukemias
Matteo Bellone
Smoldering multiple myeloma
Affimed
immunotherapy, HL, PTCL
Jalpa Doshi
Equity in Access
Michael Keller
COVID-19, immunotherapy
Kirk Schultz
pediatric transplantation
George Vassiliou
Leukemia Prevention
Katherine Borden
AML
Huda Salman
CMML
Jeremy Baeten
AML
Tak Mak
Immunotherapy
Venkata Lokesh Battula
immunotherapy and AML
Madhav Dhodapkar
multiple myeloma immunotherapy
Ryan Wilcox
T-cell lymphoma
Trent Hall
MDS
Dan Landau
cancer evolution biology
Kura Oncology
MLL leukemia, AML
Randall Davis
CLL
Dren Bio
immunotherapy, cytotoxic lymphomas, LGLL
Nizar Bahlis
Myeloma immunotherapy
Jane Oliaro
Myeloma & Lymphoma Immunotherapy
Reshmi Parameswaran
immunotherapy for hairy cell leukemia
Jianhua Yu
myeloma immunotherapy
Kimberly Stegmaier
childhood blood cancers
Helen Parsons
Equity in Access
Constantine Mitsiades
CAR-T and CAR-NK immunotherapies
Rajni Kumari
AML
Immune-Onc Therapeutics
immunotherapy, AML, CMML
Zachary Hunter
Waldenström macroglobulinemia (WM)
Inhye Ahn
CLL
Amer Zeidan
MDS and AML
Riccardo Dalla-Favera
lymphoma (DLBCL)
Coleman Lindsley
AML/MDS
Helen Heslop
Immunotherapy
Tanya Siddiqi
clinical trial access
Lindsey Montefiori
pediatric leukemia
Jun Qi
Myeloma
Alex Kentsis
pediatric leukemias
Jonas Jutzi
myeloproliferative neoplasms
Timothy Graubert
AML and MDS biology
Constellation Pharmaceuticals
myeloproliferative neoplasms
Yubin Zhou
peripheral T cell lymphoma
Courtney DiNardo
clinical trials, AML
Siddhartha Jaiswal
preleukemia
Luca Busino
DLBCL
ImCheck Therapeutics
immunotherapy, AML
Grant Challen
preleukemia, leukemia
Sean Post
diffuse large B-cell lymphoma
Jenny Wang
AML
Simona Colla
Myeloma biology
Jianguo Tao
Mantle Cell Lymphoma
Armin Rashidi
gut bacteria and transplant success
Steven Treon
Lymphomas and Waldenstrom's
Kerry Rogers
CLL
Yibin Yang
Lymphoma
Britta Will
Leukemia and pre-leukemia
Gaurav Goyal
Erdheim-Chester Disease
Christopher Booth
BPDCN
Craig Jordan
AML
Jessica Stewart
Epstein-barr virus and lymphomas
Lucy Godley
preleukemia
Daniel Starczynowski
MDS and AML
Grzegorz Nowakowski
Clinical trial access
Stephen Nimer
myeloid cancer biology
Daisuke Nakada
preleukemia, leukemia
Yan Liu
MDS
Sarah Tasian
pediatric leukemias
Thomas Kipps
Hairy Cell Leukemia
Lev Kats
myeloma and epigenetics
Robert Kridel
follicular lymphoma
Daniel Lucas
bone marrow and leukemia biology
Ari Melnick
epigenetics and lymphoma
Lori Muffly
Equity in Access
Joachim Yahalom
Lymphoma
Lakshmi Nayak
brain tumors in lymphoma
Oreofe Odejide
Equity in Access
Shannon Maude
Immunotherapy for ALL
Jennifer Lewis
URM Student
Shannon McKinney-Freeman
transplant biology
Roberta Zappasodi
lymphoma, immunotherapy
Qing Yi
Novel CAR-T
Adi Nagler
Bronchiolitis obliterans after transplant
Jian Xu
leukemia and MPN biology
Brian Dalton
DNA mutations and myeloid cancers
Ravindra Majeti
preleukemia, AML
Yiman Liu
Epigenetics and leukemia
Roland Walter
Antibody-based AML therapies
Meng Li
Equity in Access
Eirini Papapetrou
blood cancer stem cells
Marc Seifert
Hairy cell leukemia
Samuel Taylor
leukemia biology
Tyler Parsons
MPN and AML
BioInvent International
immunotherapy, indolent NHL, CTCL
