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. Elizabeth Crouch Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Harnessing vascular stem cells to grow and protect the human brain $1,391,998
University of California, Santa Cruz Dr. Camilla Forsberg Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Determining how age-specific heterogeneity of human hematopoietic stem cells and megakaryocyte progenitors contribute to thrombotic disease upon aging $1,336,800
University of California, San Francisco Yin Shen PhD Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Understanding Chemotherapy-Induced Peripheral Neuropathy Mechanisms using CRISPRi and Chemical Screens in Human iPSC-Derived Sensory Neurons $1,621,913
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Dmitriy Sheyn Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects The role of WNT and BMP signaling pathways in iPSC to iTenocyte step-wise differentiation for tendon repair $1,516,563
Gladstone Institutes, J. David Julia Kaye Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Developing a Human Model of Sporadic ALS Using Machine Learning and Robotic Microscopy $1,406,622
Greenstone Biosciences, Inc. Paul D Pang Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Drug Discovery for Dilated Cardiomyopathy using Patient-Derived Human iPSCs $1,350,000
Stanford University Dr. Marius Wernig MD, PhD Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Developing a microglia replacement therapy $1,378,365
University of California, San Diego Heidi Cook-Andersen Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Towards a trophectoderm stem-cell model representing human blastocysts of the highest implantation potential $1,584,000
University of California, San Diego Dr. Alexis Komor Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Development of a stem-cell based approach to interpret global effects of genetic variants contributing to neurodevelopmental disease risk $1,518,982
University of California, San Francisco Dr. Robert Blelloch MD, PHD. Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Development of universal off-the-shelf iPSC derived dendritic cells for use as patient specific anti-tumor vaccine $1,391,999
University of California, Berkeley Dr. Michael P. Rapé Dr. Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Control of OCT4 abundance and function in human stem cells $1,234,023
University of California, San Francisco Harold A. Chapman Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Modulation of human alveolar stem cells to promote lung regeneration and avoid pulmonary fibrosis $1,626,001
University of California, Los Angeles Dr Melissa Jan Spencer Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Engineering AAV capsids for transduction of neural and muscle stem cells $999,999
University of California, San Diego Francesca Soncin Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Drivers of trophoblast stem/progenitor cell identity in human placenta $993,881
University of California, Irvine Momoko Watanabe Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Generation of cortical organoids with tunable areal identities by spatial engineering of morphogens $0
Solano Community College James DeKloe COMPASS Training Grant IDEA-CBMS – Increase Diversity, Equity, and Advancement in Cell Based Manufacturing Sciences $2,777,358
University of Southern California Dr. Senta Georgia COMPASS Training Grant USC COMPASS: Guiding Undergraduates to Careers in Regenerative Medicine $2,899,999
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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