# Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation (ALSF)

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## TL;DR

A childhood-cancer charity started by a four-year-old patient's lemonade stand that now funds hundreds of grants and runs an open-science data lab for paediatric cancer genomics.

## Summary

Founded 2005 after Alexandra Scott's fundraising (she died of neuroblastoma in 2004 at age 8). ALSF has awarded >$300 million in grants, runs the Childhood Cancer Data Lab (Philadelphia) whose refine.bio harmonises public transcriptomic data and whose OpenPBTA/OpenPedCan atlas underpins paediatric brain tumour research, funds the Crazy 8 initiative for the hardest paediatric cancers, and supports families' travel to treatment. Partner of the Children's Oncology Group and CHOP.

## Fields

- Kind: Collection
- Last checked: 2026-09-08
- Tags: gap-fill; patient-org; paediatric
- URL: https://www.alexslemonade.org/
- Holds: Childhood cancer research grants, the Childhood Cancer Data Lab (open data tools including refine.bio and the Open Pediatric Cancer Atlas), Travel For Care assistance, and a paediatric trial finder.
- Licence: Data Lab tools open source

## Sources

- ALSF: https://www.alexslemonade.org/
- Childhood Cancer Data Lab: https://www.ccdatalab.org/

## Connected records

- cancers: [Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia](https://onco.cc/cancers/all-leukemia/), [Ewing sarcoma](https://onco.cc/cancers/ewing-sarcoma/), [Hepatoblastoma](https://onco.cc/cancers/hepatoblastoma/), [Medulloblastoma](https://onco.cc/cancers/medulloblastoma/), [Neuroblastoma (paediatric)](https://onco.cc/cancers/neuroblastoma/), [Osteosarcoma](https://onco.cc/cancers/osteosarcoma/), [Retinoblastoma](https://onco.cc/cancers/retinoblastoma/), [Rhabdomyosarcoma](https://onco.cc/cancers/rhabdomyosarcoma/), [Wilms tumour (nephroblastoma)](https://onco.cc/cancers/wilms-tumor/)
- institutions: [Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation](https://onco.cc/institutions/alsf/)
- roadmaps: [Paediatric oncology roadmap: cooperative-group cures → engineered immunity → drugs developed for children first](https://onco.cc/roadmaps/paediatric-oncology-roadmap/)
- companies: [Children's Oncology Group (COG)](https://onco.cc/companies/childrens-oncology-group/)
- people: [Alexandra "Alex" Scott](https://onco.cc/people/alex-scott/)

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