Who We Fund
Since 1949, LLS has provided more than $1.8 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.

Carl June
CAR T immunotherapy

Lev Kats
myeloma and epigenetics

Eugenio Morelli
Myeloma

Alfred Garfall
myeloma immunotherapy

F. Lennie Wong
Equity in Access

Armin Rashidi
gut bacteria and transplant success

Jing Yang
Myeloma

Christopher Flowers
clinical trial access

Noemí Puig Morón
Myeloma

Caroline Arber
myeloma CAR-T

Mala Shanmugam
myeloma

Matteo Bellone
Smoldering multiple myeloma

Sham Mailankody
Myeloma immunotherapy clinical trials

Jun Qi
Myeloma

Sigurður Kristinsson
Smoldering myeloma

Robert Orlowski
(Smoldering) Multiple Myeloma

Brian Walker
smoldering myeloma, MGUS

Constantine Mitsiades
CAR-T and CAR-NK immunotherapies

William Matsui
Myeloma

Peter Croucher
Multiple Myeloma

Jonathan Licht
DNA biology, myeloma

Bruno Paiva
smoldering myeloma

Jane Oliaro
Myeloma & Lymphoma Immunotherapy

Urvi Shah
Diet and myeloma

Fenghuang Zhan
Myeloma and bone disease

Tanya Siddiqi
clinical trial access

Jing Fu
myeloma

John Leonard
lymphoma research

Lawrence Boise
CART and myeloma

Jianhua Yu
myeloma immunotherapy

Ruben Carrasco
Myeloma

Siegfried Janz
Myeloma immunotherapy

Simona Colla
Myeloma biology

Caribou Biosciences
immunotherapy, allo-CAR, NHL, MM

Suzanne Lentzsch
Myeloma

Nizar Bahlis
Myeloma immunotherapy

Paul Beavis
immunotherapy in myeloma

Madhav Dhodapkar
multiple myeloma immunotherapy

Qing Yi
Novel CAR-T

Michaela Reagan
Multiple Myeloma

Ricky Johnstone
lymphoma and myeloma