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