Our Grants

CIRM provides funding across five key areas: Infrastructure, Education, Discovery Research, Translational Research, and Clinical Research. By supporting projects at every stage of development, from initial discovery to clinical trials, CIRM drives progress in regenerative medicine and accelerates innovative therapies to patients.

Check out our portfolio of awards below. Click here to see a list of People We’ve Funded. Click here to see a list of our Funded Institutions.

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Institution Researcher name Grant Type Grant Title Award Value
University of California, Berkeley Mr. Fyodor Urnov Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects A Treatment for Artemis-deficient Severe Combined Immunodeficiency using Non-Viral CRISPR-driven Safe Harbor Transgenesis in Hematopoietic Stem Cells $1,809,372
University of California, Davis Aijun Wang PhD Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects In Utero Treatment of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy with Non-viral Gene Editing $2,035,544
Rubedo Life Sciences Inc. Marco Quarta Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Pharmacological regenerative treatment of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis targeting the senescent niche of lung progenitor cells. $1,450,876
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. Gerald Lipshutz Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Gene Therapy for SLC6A8 Creatine Transporter Disorder $2,296,920
University of California, Los Angeles Frank Pajonk Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Development of novel small molecules against cancer stem cells in solid cancers $2,340,000
Scripps Health Dr. Darryl D. D’Lima Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Pluripotent Stem Cells for Tendon Tissue Engineering $2,734,163
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Dmitriy Sheyn Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Microgel encapsulated iPSC-derived notochordal cells to treat intervertebral disc degeneration and low back pain $2,020,166
Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation at Harbor – UCLA Medical Center Dr. Michelina Iacovino PhD Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects A Novel Therapy for Sanfilippo B $2,297,884
University of California, San Diego Armin Blesch Progression Award – Discovery Stage Research Projects Simplification of Excipient Solution for Implanting Candidate Human H9-scNSC Cell Line for Spinal Cord Injury $180,000
Stanford University Dr. Helen M Blau Progression Award – Discovery Stage Research Projects Stimulating endogenous muscle stem cells to counter muscle wasting $237,060
University of California, Irvine Dr. Brian J. Cummings Progression Award – Discovery Stage Research Projects Human neural stem cell (hNSC) derived exosomes vs CSC14 hNSCs for the treatment of traumatic brain injury (TBI) $202,667
University of California, Berkeley Kevin E. Healy Progression Award – Discovery Stage Research Projects Safety “Clinical Trial” of the Cardiac Liability of COVID19 Polytherapy $224,500
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. Caroline Y. Kuo Progression Award – Discovery Stage Research Projects Evaluation of Gene Therapy Approaches for Autosomal Recessive Hyper IgE Syndrome Due to Mutations in DOCK8 $234,000
Neurona Therapeutics Dr. Cory R Nicholas Progression Award – Discovery Stage Research Projects Global gene expression profiling of single inhibitory neurons derived from human stem cells $202,500
Stanford University Professor Hiromitsu Nakauchi Progression Award – Discovery Stage Research Projects Using metabolic pausing for maintaining stable and high-quality pluripotent stem cells $208,422
Aspen Neuroscience Dr. Andres Bratt-Leal Progression Award – Discovery Stage Research Projects Autologous therapy for Parkinson’s disease: single cell RNAseq for in depth characterization of transplanted cells $177,579

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