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.

All CIRM Grants

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Institution Researcher name Grant Type Grant Title Award Value
Cal State Univ, San Bernadino Daniel Nickerson COMPASS Training Grant Student Pluripotency: Realizing Untapped Undergraduate Potential in Regenerative Medicine $2,901,853
Cal State Fullerton Alison Miyamoto COMPASS Training Grant COMPASS: an inclusive Pipeline for Research and Other Stem cell-based Professions in Regenerative medicine (iPROSPR) $2,760,385
University of California, Irvine Dr. Brian J. Cummings COMPASS Training Grant Research Mentorship Program in Regenerative Medicine Careers for a Diverse Undergraduate Student Body $2,713,400
The Regents of the University of California on behalf of its Riverside Campus Dr. Huinan Hannah Liu COMPASS Training Grant Research Training and Mentorship Program to Inspire Diverse Undergraduates toward Regenerative Medicine Careers (RAMP) $2,910,000
University of California, Davis Dr. Alice F Tarantal COMPASS Training Grant COMPASS Undergraduate Program $2,909,950
MiraCosta College Dr. Michael Fino COMPASS Training Grant Increase Diversity, Equity, and Advancement in Cell Based Manufacturing Sciences (IDEA-CBMS) $2,878,000
Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation at Harbor – UCLA Medical Center Dr. Virender K. Rehan M.D. Research Training Grant Stem Cell Training Program at the Lundquist Institute $5,349,109
University of California, Irvine Dr. Peter J Donovan Research Training Grant CIRM Scholars Comprehensive Research Training Program $5,373,742
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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