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, San Francisco Dr. Ophir Klein MD, PhD Conference Stem Cells Craniofacial Development and Disease $4,500
University of California, San Diego Prof. John M. Ravits Conference Cell Therapy for amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) -Testing the Limits: What should we use as preclinical standards of clinical trials? $7,193
Children’s Neurobiological Solutions (CNS) Foundation Alex Richmond Conference The Best Next Steps: Setting a Path for Advancing Pediatric Neurology $10,000
Vitalant Research Institute Shibani Pati Conference Cell Therapies in Trauma and Critical Care: Barriers in Translation from Pre-clinical to Clinical Development $18,440
Research for Cure Marilyn Smith Conference Working 2 Walk Science & Advocacy Symposium $22,113
University of Southern California Kathy Rich Conference The Stem Cell Niche in Development and Regeneration $7,476
Buck Institute for Age Research Victoria Lunyak Conference Stem Cell Research and Aging $30,000
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Professor Clive Niels Svendsen Conference California ALS Summit 2012 $6,825
International Symposium on Neural Regeneration, Inc. Roger Madison Conference 14th International Symposium on Neural Regeneration $20,000
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. Martina Wiedau-Pazos Conference California ALS Summit 2011 $13,300
Brain Mapping Foundation Dr. Babak Kateb Conference 8th Annual World Congress for Brain, Spinal Cord Mapping and Image Guided Therapy at Mission Bay Conference Center of UCSF School of Medicine $17,200
University of California, Santa Barbara Francis J. Doyle Conference 12th Annual Systemwide Bioengineering Symposium $15,000
University of California, Berkeley Dr. Song Li Conference University of California Systemwide Bioengineering Symposium 2012 $25,200
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Dr. John Yu Conference First Annual Stem Cell Therapies for Neurological Disorders: Overcoming the Current Barriers to Clinical Translation, April 30 (special stem cell program for high school students on April 28) $18,500
University of California, Santa Cruz Dr. Camilla Forsberg Conference UCSC Frontiers of Stem Cells and Aging Symposium $24,405
Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine Lawrence Goldstein Conference The Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine Symposium and the investor and Partnering Forum at Stem Cells on the Mesa $44,000
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. Tatiana Segura Conference 2013 Materials Research Society (MRS) Spring Meeting Symposium “Design of Cell Instructive Materials” $4,000
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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