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

Madhav Dhodapkar
multiple myeloma immunotherapy

Noemí Puig Morón
Myeloma

Sigurður Kristinsson
Smoldering myeloma

Ricky Johnstone
lymphoma and myeloma

Armin Rashidi
gut bacteria and transplant success

Brian Walker
smoldering myeloma, MGUS

Sham Mailankody
Myeloma immunotherapy clinical trials

Christopher Flowers
clinical trial access

Jane Oliaro
Myeloma & Lymphoma Immunotherapy

Urvi Shah
Diet and myeloma

Matteo Bellone
Smoldering multiple myeloma

Peter Croucher
Multiple Myeloma

Jing Fu
myeloma

Caroline Arber
myeloma CAR-T

Qing Yi
Novel CAR-T

Jonathan Licht
DNA biology, myeloma

Ruben Carrasco
Myeloma

Caribou Biosciences
immunotherapy, allo-CAR, NHL, MM, AML

Michaela Reagan
Multiple Myeloma

Suzanne Lentzsch
Myeloma

Alfred Garfall
myeloma immunotherapy

Jing Yang
Myeloma

John Leonard
lymphoma research

Paul Beavis
immunotherapy in myeloma

Robert Orlowski
(Smoldering) Multiple Myeloma

Nizar Bahlis
Myeloma immunotherapy

Bruno Paiva
smoldering myeloma

Lev Kats
myeloma and epigenetics

Simona Colla
Myeloma biology

Eugenio Morelli
Myeloma

William Matsui
Myeloma

Mala Shanmugam
myeloma

Constantine Mitsiades
CAR-T and CAR-NK immunotherapies

F. Lennie Wong
Equity in Access

Tanya Siddiqi
clinical trial access

Fenghuang Zhan
Myeloma and bone disease

Siegfried Janz
Myeloma immunotherapy

Jun Qi
Myeloma

Jianhua Yu
myeloma immunotherapy

Lawrence Boise
CART and myeloma