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January 29, 2026
CIRM approves new $100 million plan to accelerate genetic therapies for patients with rare diseases
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CIRM approves over $160M to support preclinical and clinical research, advances education opportunities and access to clinical trials
October 30, 2025
CIRM awards $27 million to launch novel program designed to bring cell and gene therapies to underserved California communities
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- Closer to Cures: Cory R. Nicholas, CEO and co-founder of Neurona Therapeutics, discusses progress in clinical trials for patients with epilepsy that does not respond to drugs. February 26, 2026Written by Holly Alyssa MacCormick Roughly 3 million adults living in the United States have epilepsy, and about 400,000 of these people live in California, according to the CDC. Of these people, about one-third to half continue to have seizures that do not respond to medications on the market. It’s those patients who don’t respond to medications that Neurona Therapeutics is hoping to help with a stem-cell derived approach currently in clinical trials. […]
- CIRM board supports a rare disease funding plan, administrative changes January 30, 2026Written by Holly Alyssa MacCormick South San Francisco, CA, January 30, 2026 – As many as 1 in 10 people in the U.S. has a rare disease, many of which have no known cure. A new program by the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) could change this by funding novel ways to develop multiple […]
- New program to help patients with rare disease January 29, 2026Recently, the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) announced a new approach for how its funding can advance treatments for people living with rare diseases. Individually, few people have any single rare disease, but in aggregate, about 30 million people in the U.S. have one of the roughly 10,000 rare diseases, and 95% have no […]
