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May 30, 2025
Statement from CIRM’s President Re: Rocket Pharmaceuticals’ Danon Disease Gene Therapy Trial Update
May 29, 2025
CIRM awards $4.7 million for vision loss gene therapy
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
CIRM’s Blog: The Stem Cellar
The Stem Cellar
- 20 Years of CIRM: Building the Workforce July 21, 2025In celebration of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM)’s 20th anniversary, we have been reflecting on some of the early projects we supported and their outcomes. Today, we’re looking at our first set of grants, which we awarded in 2006 to support training programs for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. Not long after, CIRM […]
- Neurona Doses First Patient in CIRM-Funded Bilateral Epilepsy Cell Therapy Trial June 20, 2025Neurona Therapeutics has reached a major milestone in the development of its stem cell approach to treating epilepsy. The company recently announced that the first patient has been dosed in a Phase 1/2 clinical trial evaluating NRTX-1001, a cell therapy for adults whose epilepsy affects both sides of the brain and for whom drugs have […]
- Gene Therapy for Heart Failure: A Conversation with Eric Adler, MD June 10, 2025In the fall of 2024, the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) helped sponsor the Gene Therapy Initiative symposium in La Jolla, CA. While there, CIRM staff caught up with a few CIRM grantees who are working on gene therapy approaches to treating diseases. One of these grantees was Eric Adler, MD, from the University […]
