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.

See our complete portfolio of awards below.

All CIRM Grants

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Institution Researcher name Grant Type Grant Title Award Value
City of Hope, Beckman Research Institute Dr. Saswati Chatterjee Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Genome Editing of Sinusoidal Endothelial Stem Cells for Permanent Correction of Hemophilia A $2,182,193
University of California, Irvine Dr. Brian J. Cummings Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Identification and characterization of the optimal human neural stem cell line (hNSC) for the treatment of traumatic brain injury (TBI) 2.0. $1,671,213
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. Vaithilingaraja Arumugaswami PhD Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Immunization strategies to prevent Zika viral congenital eye and brain disease $2,128,867
Rumi Scientific CA Ali H. Brivanlou Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Discovery of therapeutics for Huntington’s Disease $1,399,800
University of California, Los Angeles UCLA Gay Miriam Crooks Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Platform Technology for Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived T cell Immunotherapy $965,636
X-Therma Inc. Dr. Xiaoxi Wei Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Non-Toxic, Highly-Effective Bioinspired Cryoprotectants for On-Demand Stem Cell Therapies $887,883
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. Caroline Y. Kuo Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Targeted Gene Editing in the Treatment of X-Linked Hyper-IgM Syndrome $1,512,333
University of California, Davis Dr. Deborah K Lieu Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Microenvironment for hiPSC-derived pacemaking cardiomyocytes $2,042,438
Stanford University Dr. Mark Mercola Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Multipotent Cardiovascular Progenitor Regeneration of the Myocardium after MI $1,809,234
University of California, San Diego Professor Yuan Chen Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects A Novel Approach to Eradicate Cancer Stem Cells $279,977
City of Hope, Beckman Research Institute Professor Yuan Chen Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects A Novel Approach to Eradicate Cancer Stem Cells $1,539,935
University of California, Berkeley Kevin E. Healy Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Human Cardiac Chip for Assessment of Proarrhythmic Risk $899,581
University of California, San Francisco Dr. Holger F Willenbring Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Preclinical development of AAV vector-mediated in vivo hepatic reprogramming of myofibroblasts as a therapy for liver fibrosis $1,638,389
Scaled Biolabs Inc. Dr Justin Cooper-White Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects A tool for rapid development of clinical-grade protocols for dopaminergic neuronal differentiation of Parkinson’s Disease patient-derived iPSCs $657,528
City of Hope, Beckman Research Institute Markus Müschen Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Lgr5-mediated self-renewal in B cell selection and leukemia-initiation $2,183,223
University of California, San Diego Professor Alysson R Muotri Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects A treatment for Zika virus infection and neuroprotection efficacy $1,924,524
Stanford University Dr. Matthew H Porteus Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Genome Editing to Correct Cystic Fibrosis Mutations in Airway Stem Cells $1,968,456
University of California, San Francisco Dr. Julie B Sneddon Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Designing a cellular niche for transplantation of human embryonic stem cell-derived beta cells $2,006,076
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Professor Clive Niels Svendsen Disease Team Therapy Planning I Stem Cells Secreting GDNF for the Treatment of ALS $63,487
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