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Latest Press Releases
September 25, 2026
CIRM approves more than $195 million to support education, discovery, clinical, and infrastructure awards
September 25, 2026
El CIRM destina $9 millones a Enloe Health para acercar las terapias celulares y génicas a los pacientes del norte de California
September 25, 2026
CIRM awards $9 million to Enloe Health to bring cell and gene therapies closer to patients in Northern California
June 25, 2026
CIRM advances $662 million research budget, the largest annual investment in its history
CIRM’s Blog: The Stem Cellar
The Stem Cellar
- Epilepsy: Understanding the condition and exploring new treatments November 11, 2026“It’s like falling and never hitting the ground.” That’s how one woman described living with epilepsy. Like many diseases, the 50 million people worldwide living with epilepsy each experience the disease a little differently. Some might have a seizure once every few years, while others might have multiple seizures a day. For some, those seizures […]
- Bridges educational program creates paths to mentorship and medicine November 6, 2026By Holly Alyssa MacCormick Charting a career path is one of the biggest journeys we will undertake in our lifetimes. That’s why the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) created the Bridges to Stem Cell Research and Therapy (Bridges) program. California universities and colleges use Bridges awards to train undergraduate and master’s students in stem […]
- Early CIRM awardee Karl Deisseroth wins Nobel Prize October 26, 2026On Oct. 5, Karl Deisseroth, MD, PhD, and two other scientists won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. The recognition was for the discovery and impact of optogenetics. Optogenetics introduces genes for light-sensitive proteins into cells and then uses light to activate or deactivate cells in living tissue. The California Institute for Regenerative […]