Christopher Flowers
clinical trial access
Who We Fund
Since 1949, LLS has provided more than $1.5 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.
Lucy Godley
preleukemia
Siddhartha Jaiswal
preleukemia
Clayton Smith
clinical trial access
Tanya Siddiqi
clinical trial access
Saar Gill
AML immunotherapy
Courtney Jones
AML metabolism
Jun Qi
Myeloma
Hong Wen
AML
Xu Ji
Equity in Access
Alison Moskowitz
lymphoma therapeutics
Yan Liu
MDS
Matteo Bellone
Smoldering multiple myeloma
Helen Heslop
Immunotherapy
Saad Usmani
Myeloma
Constantine Mitsiades
Waldenström's Macroglobulinemia
Jolanta Grembecka
leukemia therapeutics
Michael Rout
follicular lymphoma, CAR T
Robert Albero Gallego
DNA biology and T-ALL
George Vassiliou
pre-leukemia
Keisuke Ito
blood cancer stem cells
Christopher Park
blood cancer stem cells
Geoffrey Uy
leukemia
Justin Kline
diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, immunotherapy
Terry Fry
CAR T and pediatric AML
Sylvain Simon
Immunotherapy, CAR-T safety
Noemí Puig Morón
Myeloma
Koichi Takahashi
AML/MDS
Suman Paul
T cell cancers and immunotherapy
Bruno Paiva
smoldering myeloma
Jennifer Woyach
CLL trials
Kymera Therapeutics
protein degraders, NHL
Neha Mehta-Shah
T-cell lymphoma
Elvin Wagenblast
Down syndrome-associated leukemia
Kimberly Stegmaier
childhood blood cancers
Johanna Melo-Cardenas
Primary Myelofibrosis
Liran Shlush
pre-leukemia
Abintus Bio
immunotherapy, in vivo CAR, NHL
Catherine Smith
leukemia
Margaret Shipp
lymphoma biology
Brian Dalton
DNA mutations and myeloid cancers
Timothy Ley
AML, precision medicine
Mark Hamilton
DLBCL and CAR-T
Kerry Rogers
CLL
Jane Oliaro
Myeloma & Lymphoma Immunotherapy
C. Ola Landgren
myeloma, imaging
Madhav Dhodapkar
multiple myeloma immunotherapy
Thomas Kipps
Hairy Cell Leukemia
Daniel Starczynowski
MDS and AML
Eirini Papapetrou
blood cancer stem cells
Stephen Oh
myeloproliferative neoplasms
Nicolas Nassar
pediatric leukemia
Zhijian Qian
blood cancer stem cells
Ivan Maillard
transplant biology
Nirav Shah
CAR-T for lymphoma
Frederike Kramer
MPNs
Constellation Pharmaceuticals
myeloproliferative neoplasms
Jatinder Lamba
pediatric AML, immunotherapy
NexImmune
immunotherapy, AML, myeloma
Jaroslaw Maciejewski
bone marrow failure
Ricky Johnstone
lymphoma and myeloma
Yibin Yang
Lymphoma
Andrew Lane
BPDCN
Ryotaro Nakamura
ALL, CAR T
Samuel Taylor
leukemia biology
Jianjun Chen
leukemia epigenetics
John Leonard
lymphoma research
Dan Vogl
myeloma, microenvironment
Sigurður Kristinsson
Smoldering myeloma
Jeffrey Magee
pediatric AML
Sutro Biopharma
immunotherapy, NHL, myeloma
Homa Rahnamoun
AML
Peng Ji
myeloproliferative neoplasms
Ryan O'Connell
microRNA and blood cancers
Lei Ding
myeloproliferative neoplasms, myelofibrosis
Ryan Wilcox
T-cell lymphoma
Alfred Garfall
myeloma immunotherapy
Andreas Strasser
cancer cell death
Christopher Porter
Leukemia, lymphoma
Matthew Davids
lymphoma therapeutics
Carl June
CAR T immunotherapy
Roberta Zappasodi
lymphoma, immunotherapy
Annamaria Gulla
Myeloma
Qingyu Luo
BPDCN
Richard Lock
T-ALL
Craig Jordan
AML
Kathleen Sakamoto
pediatric AML
X4 Pharmaceuticals
Waldenstrom's Macroglobulinemia
Aditi Shastri
AML, MDS
Patrick Brown
pediatric blood cancers and immunotherapy
Travera
biomarker, myeloma
Michael Savona
MDS and leukemia
Stacie Dusetzina
Equity in Access
Reshmi Parameswaran
immunotherapy for hairy cell leukemia
Venkata Lokesh Battula
immunotherapy and AML
Amin Sobh
Myeloma biology
Tomasz Skorski
myeloproliferative neoplasms, AML
Marcel Spaargaren
Waldenstrom's Macroglobulinemia
Kura Oncology
MLL leukemia, AML
Nitin Jain
CLL
Rizwan Romee
Immunotherapy
Grant Challen
preleukemia, leukemia
Davide Rossi
Hodgkin lymphoma
Sarah Tasian
pediatric leukemias
Rajni Kumari
AML
Coleman Lindsley
AML/MDS
Caron Jacobson
lymphoma and immunotherapy
Baochun Zhang
immunotherapy
Daniel Thomas
Myelofibrosis
Sean Post
diffuse large B-cell lymphoma
Kasey Leger
pediatric blood cancers
Ann-Kathrin Eisfeld
Racial diversity in AML
Jaehyuk Choi
T-cell lymphoma
Sara Buhrlage
MPNs
Carl Allen
pediatric blood cancers
Immunitas Therapeutics
immunotherapy, NHL
Julia Maxson
AML
Lev Kats
myeloma and epigenetics
Daniel Lucas
bone marrow and leukemia biology
Christopher Reilly
leukemia
Dane Vassiliadis
blood cancer biology
Jennifer Trowbridge
aging and leukemia
Rong Lu
preleukemia, leukemia
Loren Walensky
pediatric leukemia
Clara Reglero
pediatric ALL
Christian Steidl
B-cell lymphomas
Jonathan Licht
DNA biology, myeloma
Robert Signer
cancer stem cell biology
Grzegorz Nowakowski
Clinical trial access
Amit Verma
AML/MDS
Dan Landau
cancer evolution biology
Christopher Booth
BPDCN
Daniel Pollyea
AML
Daniel Herranz
T-ALL
Markus Muschen
leukemia and lymphoma biology
Ravi Bhatia
transplantation
Arash Alizadeh
blood cancer biology and diagnosis
Sattva Neelapu
DLBCL, CAR T
Simona Colla
Myeloma biology
Randall Davis
CLL
Caner Saygin
T-ALL
Stephen Nimer
myeloid cancer biology
Santosha Vardhana
COVID-19
Larry Kwak
Mantle cell lymphoma, immunotherapy
Thomas Koehnke
leukemia
Amer Zeidan
MDS and AML
Katherine Borden
AML
Ryvu Therapeutics
AML, MDS
Alex Herrera
lymphoma and immunotherapy
Brian Walker
smoldering myeloma, MGUS
Soheil Meshinchi
pediatric AML
Eugenio Morelli
Myeloma
Wendy Béguelin
follicular lymphoma
Piers Patten
COVID-19
E. Anders Kolb
pediatric blood cancers
David Weinstock
T-cell lymphoma
Shan Lin
preleukemia, leukemia
Catriona Jamieson
cancer stem cell biology
Mitchell Geer
leukemia biology
Sisi Chen
leukemia
Sameer Parikh
COVID-19
Paolo Strati
Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma
Daisuke Nakada
preleukemia, leukemia
Joachim Yahalom
Lymphoma
Chun-Chin Chen
Down syndrome-associated leukemia
Karin Tarte
follicular lymphoma
Catherine Bollard
pediatric blood cancers and immunotherapy
Jianhua Yu
myeloma immunotherapy
Juliette Bouyssou
leukemias and gender
Alec Zhang
myeloma, immunotherapy
Marco Ruella
Immunotherapy for T-cell lymphoma
Susan Schwab
cancer immunology
Sami Malek
blood cancer biology
Lakshmi Nayak
brain tumors in lymphoma
G. Greg Wang
DNA biology
Kirsten Williams
leukemia, immunotherapy
Marc Seifert
Hairy cell leukemia
Balazs Halmos
COVID-19
Logan Spector
childhood leukemia epidimiology
Immune-Onc Therapeutics
immunotherapy, AML, CMML
Charles Mullighan
pediatric ALL
Therese Vu
T-All and MLL
Brian Baker
immunotherapy, viral-associated blood cancers
Stephen Nutt
Myeloma
Courtney DiNardo
clinical trials, AML
Srividya Swaminathan
pediatric, immunotherapy
Affimed
immunotherapy, PTCL
Selina Chen-Kiang
Mantle cell lymphoma
Christiane Querfeld
T-cell lymphoma
Robert Bradley
MDS
Scott Armstrong
pediatric blood cancers
David Fruman
novel combinations
Ann Mullally
MPN, myelofibrosis
Joel Pomerantz
diffuse large B-cell lymphoma
Faron Pharmaceuticals
immunotherapy, AML
Thorsten Zenz
Hairy cell leukemia
Jian Xu
leukemia and MPN biology
Verastem Oncology
PTCL
Gongwei Wu
lymphoma biology
Carisma Therapeutics
immunotherapy, CAR-macrophage
Alexandra Stevens
childhood AML
Gareth Morgan
smoldering myeloma, MGUS
Xiangguo Shi
leukemia biology
Jeremy Baeten
AML
Babal Jha
MDS
Adam Olszewski
Follicular and marginal zone lymphoma
Luca Busino
DLBCL
Megan McNerney
AML/MDS
BioTheryX
protein degraders, AML
Hao Jiang
leukemia biology
Kevin Shannon
pediatric AML
Takeshi Egawa
blood cancer biology
Alex Kentsis
pediatric leukemias
Ravindra Majeti
preleukemia, AML
Philippe Armand
lymphoma and immunotherapy
John Pimanda
AML, MDS
Riccardo Dalla-Favera
diffuse large B-cell lymphoma
Alexey Danilov
lymphoma
Nathan Ungerleider
lymphoma biology
ImCheck Therapeutics
immunotherapy, AML
Mala Shanmugam
myeloma
Suzanne Lentzsch
Myeloma
OncoPep
vaccine, smoldering myeloma
Ari Melnick
epigenetics and lymphoma
F. Lennie Wong
Equity in Access
Kirk Schultz
pediatric transplantation
Christina Glytsou
leukemia therapeutics
Alieen Rowan
Adult T cell leukemia/lymphoma
Michael Keller
COVID-19, immunotherapy
Maria "Ken" Figueroa
aging and leukemia
Caribou Biosciences
immunotherapy, allo-CAR, NHL
Frederick Locke
lymphoma and immunotherapy
Robert Kridel
follicular lymphoma
Peter Klein
MDS
Shannon McKinney-Freeman
transplant biology
Forty Seven
immunotherapy, MDS, DLBCL
Robert Orlowski
(Smoldering) Multiple Myeloma
Haopeng Yang
follicular lymphoma
Gianpietro Dotti
CAR T and AML
Omar Abdel-Wahab
Hairy cell leukemia
Jonas Jutzi
myeloproliferative neoplasms
Enrico Tiacci
Hairy cell leukemia
Timothy Graubert
AML and MDS biology
Iannis Aifantis
leukemia biology and T-ALL
Areej El-Jawahri
transplant survivorship
Thomas LeBlanc
palliative care
Ronald Levy
immunotherapies, COVID-19
Michael Green
lymphoma biology
David Ritchie
Hairy Cell Leukemia
Michael Kharas
leukemia