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  • Gene therapies for Friedreich’s Ataxia: A conversation with Liz Soragni, PhD June 2, 2025
    In 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 grantee was Liz Soragni, PhD, Director of Research at the […]
  • 20 years of CIRM: After spurring new research, CIRM’s iPSC repository closes  May 28, 2025
    In 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, 2025
    Here’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 […]

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