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
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute Mark Mercola Disease Team Planning “Stem Cell Therapies for Heart Failure” $44,450
Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles Dr. Donald B. Kohn Disease Team Planning STEM CELL GENE THERAPY FOR SICKLE CELL DISEASE $12,131
University of California, Irvine Dr. Leslie M Thompson Disease Team Planning Huntington’s Disease Team $41,953
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Dr. Eduardo Marbán Disease Team Planning {REDACTED} Heart Disease Regenerative Medicine Team Planning Award $38,980
UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland Dr. Mark C. Walters M.D. Disease Team Planning CIRM Disease Team Planning Award $16,939
Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research Dr. Webster K. Cavenee Disease Team Planning Stem Cell-Mediated Oncocidal Therapy of Primary & Metastatic Brain Tumors $3,867
University of California, Irvine Dr. Henry John Klassen Disease Team Planning Stem cells for neuroprotection of photoreceptors in retinitis pigmentosa $23,537
Buck Institute for Age Research Dr. Xianmin Zeng Disease Team Planning Develop a cell replacement therapy for Parkinson’s disease using human embryonic stem cells $37,161
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. Irvin SY Chen Disease Team Planning Stem Cell Therapy for AIDS- Disease Team Planning $51,490
University of California, San Diego Lawrence Goldstein Disease Team Planning Human Stem Cell Approaches to Alzheimers Disease Therapies $55,000
Stanford University Dr. Thomas A. Rando MD, PhD Disease Team Planning Stem Cell Therapy for Muscular Dystrophy $0
ViaCyte, Inc. Dr. Emmanuel Edward Baetge Disease Team Planning Development of a Cell Replacement Therapy Product for Insulin Dependent Diabetes $48,950
Gladstone Institutes, J. David Dr. Deepak Srivastava Disease Team Planning Pluripotent Stem Cell–Based Therapy for Heart Disease $13,505
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. Stanley Thomas Carmichael Disease Team Planning Development of a Stem Cell Therapy to Promote Functional Recovery in Stroke $42,748
Salk Institute for Biological Studies Prof. Samuel Lawrence Pfaff Disease Team Planning Motor neuron diseases: Finding cures through basic, translational, and clinical collaboration $51,266
University of Southern California Dr. Mark S Humayun Disease Team Planning Stem cell based treatment strategy for Age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD) $3,088
University of California, San Francisco Professor Jeffrey Charles Lotz Disease Team Planning A CIRM Disease Team for the Repair of Traumatically Injured and Arthritic Cartilage $33,172
University of Southern California Dr. David Timothy Woodley Disease Team Planning Clinical Regenerative Wound Healing With Stem Cells $33,626
University of California, San Francisco Dr. Jeffrey A Bluestone Disease Team Planning A CIRM Disease Team for the Treatment and Cure of Diabetes $55,000
University of Southern California Dr. Chrysostomos L. Max Nikias Major Facilities Broad CIRM Facility at USC $26,972,500
University of California, San Francisco Dr. A. Eugene Washington Major Facilities UCSF CIRM Building $34,862,400
University of California, Santa Cruz Margaret L. Delaney Major Facilities UC Santa Cruz IBSC Facility $7,191,950
University of California, Santa Barbara Glenn E Lucas Major Facilities UC Santa Barbara Bio Sciences II $3,205,800
University of California, Merced John O. White Major Facilities Stem Cell Instrumentation Foundry $4,341,321
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. Gene D. Block Major Facilities UCLA CIRM Institute $19,854,900
University of California, Irvine Dr. Michael V Drake Major Facilities UC Irvine CIRM Institute $27,156,000
University of California, Davis Dr. Larry N. Vanderhoef Major Facilities UC Davis CIRM Institute $20,082,400
University of California, Berkeley Dr. George W. Breslauer Major Facilities UC Berkeley CIRM Center of Excellence $20,183,500
Stanford University Dr. John L. Hennessy Major Facilities Stanford SIM1 Building $43,578,000
Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine Edward Holmes Major Facilities Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine $42,827,439
Buck Institute for Age Research Mary McEachron Major Facilities CIRM Center of Excellence at Buck Institute for Age Research $20,500,000
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. Bennett G Novitch Basic Biology V In vitro modeling of human motor neuron disease $1,148,758
Stanford University Dr. Helen M Blau Basic Biology V Mass Cytometry to Delineate the Human Muscle Stem Cell Hierarchy and Dysfunction in Aging $1,175,357
Stanford University Dr. Marius Wernig MD, PhD Basic Biology V Mechanisms of human induced neuronal cell reprogramming $1,178,370
University of California, Irvine Dr. Peter J Donovan Basic Biology V Non-invasive live imaging of stem cell signature metabolic states $516,366
Palo Alto Veterans Institute for Research Dr. Thomas A. Rando Basic Biology V Molecular regulation of stem cell potency $966,510
University of California, Merced Dr. Kara E McCloskey Basic Biology V Directed Differentiation of Specialized Endothelial Cells $475,686
University of California, San Francisco Dr. Valerie Marie Weaver Basic Biology V Biophysical Determinants of Early Embryonic Stem Cell Fate Specification $1,186,500
California Institute of Technology Dr. David Anthony Tirrell Basic Biology V Engineered matrices for control of lineage commitment in human pancreatic stem cells $526,896
Salk Institute for Biological Studies Ronald Mark Evans Basic Biology V Metabolically-driven epigenetic changes in iPSC reprogramming $1,491,900
University of California, San Diego Dr. Dianne McKay Basic Biology V Role of intracytoplasmic pattern recognition receptors in HSC engraftment $615,639
Stanford University Dr. Gary Steinberg Basic Biology V Paracrine and synaptic mechanisms underlying neural stem cell-mediated stroke recovery $1,178,370
University of California, San Diego Christian Metallo Basic Biology V Metabolic regulation of cardiac differentiation and maturation $1,124,834
University of California, Los Angeles Dr Samantha J Butler Ph.D. Basic Biology V Assessing the mechanism by which the Bone Morphogenetic Proteins direct stem cell fate $515,730
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Paul W Noble Basic Biology V Innate Immune Regulation of Lung Alveolar Stem Cell Renewal in Mouse and Man $617,662
Gladstone Institutes, J. David Sheng Ding PhD Basic Biology V A novel druggable mechanism to safeguard stem cell genome $1,294,495
University of California, San Francisco Dr. Mark S. Anderson Basic Biology V Generation of a functional thymus to induce immune tolerance to stem cell derivatives $1,191,000
University of California, Irvine Dr. Lisa A Flanagan Basic Biology V Molecular basis of plasma membrane characteristics reflecting stem cell fate potential $994,108
University of California, San Diego Maike Sander Basic Biology V Defining links between chromatin state and developmental competence $1,050,300
University of Southern California Dr. Denis A Evseenko Dr. Basic Biology V Promoting survival and countering hypertrophy of pluripotent stem cell (PSC)-derived chondrocytes $735,138
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