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April 24, 2025
CIRM awards $8 million to advance vision loss gene therapy to clinical trials
March 27, 2025
CIRM Approves New and Updated Funding Programs, Awards $26.5 Million for Clinical Research and Development
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CIRM Awards Nearly $100 Million to Boost Discovery, Translational, and Clinical Disease Research
November 21, 2024
CIRM Awards $29.7 Million to Advance Clinical Projects
CIRM’s Blog: The Stem Cellar
The Stem Cellar
- 20 years of CIRM: After spurring new research, CIRM’s iPSC repository closes May 28, 2025In celebration of CIRM’s 20th anniversary, we have been reflecting on some of the early projects we supported and their outcomes. This blog is a little different, because it also marks the end of a project. In 2013 CIRM announced a $32 million project to create a repository of stem cell lines from people with […]
- Gene Therapy for Osteoarthritis Shows Positive Results in Early Trial May 19, 2025Here’s a shocking statistic: in 2020, 7.6% of the world’s population was living with the most common form of arthritis – osteoarthritis (OA). That amounts to 595 million people globally and 32.5 million adults in the U.S. That’s a lot of people with painful knees, hips, and other joints. Although pain medication can help with […]
- 20 Years of CIRM: The evolution of a CIRM-funded therapy for macular degeneration May 12, 2025In celebration of CIRM’s 20th anniversary, we are reflecting on some of the early projects we supported that have since advanced to clinical trials. One such trial for a form of blindness originated with a 2007 SEED grant to David Hinton, MD, of the University of Southern California (USC) and later with a 2008 Disease […]
