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, Irvine Dr. Aileen J Anderson Manufacturing Network Grant The UCI GMP Cell and Gene Therapy Manufacturing Facility $2,000,000
University of California, San Diego Dan S Kaufman Manufacturing Network Grant UCSD Advanced Cell Therapy Laboratory $2,000,000
University of California, San Francisco Dr. Holger F Willenbring Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Unlocking the regenerative potential of hepatocyte plasticity for diseases of the biliary system $4,871,000
Stanford University Dr. Joseph C. Wu Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Base Editing, Single-Cell Multiomics, and Cardiac Organoids to Decode Genetic Variants $4,606,248
Iris Medicine, Inc. Chi Zhang Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Global profiling of miRNA-based gene activation to enable a new category of genetic medicine $2,997,574
Navega Therapeutics Fernando Aleman Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Enhancing clinical predictability with novel models of iPSC-derived nociceptor for chronic pain $1,498,623
California Institute of Technology Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects High-Throughput Discovery of Embryo Formation Factors Using Stem Cell-Based Human Embryo Models $2,872,697
Stanford University Matteo Amitaba Mole’ Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Dissecting the cellular and molecular interactions between embryo and endometrium during human implantation. $2,290,157
Stanford University Dr. Konstantina Stankovic Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Identifying and Overcoming Roadblocks to Hearing Restoration Using Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells $4,608,000
University of California, San Diego Dr. Nicole G Coufal Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Next generation stem cell transplantation approaches for pediatric neurodegenerative disorders $4,628,762
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. Kathrin Plath Dr. Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Genetic and Epigenetic Regulation of XIST and X-chromosome silencing in hiPSCs: Overcoming Barriers in Stem Cell-Based Therapies for Women’s Health $2,358,742
University of Southern California Zhongwei Li Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Development of in vitro and in vivo functional human synthetic kidney organoid (hSKO) model as a platform technology for kidney research $2,287,926
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. Hanna Mikkola Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Unraveling the developmental path from altered hematopoietic stem cells to leukemia in Down syndrome $2,337,847
University of California, San Diego Melissa Gymrek Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Interrogation of tandem repeat variants contributing to neurodevelopmental and psychiatric traits using stem cell models $2,405,997
University of California, Irvine Dr. LESLIE M Thompson Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects In neurons and beyond: how protein interactions shape the cellular response to Huntington’s Disease $2,056,195
University of California, San Francisco Jingjing Li Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Hearing the Silence: Genome-wide Mapping of Cell-Type-Specific Silencers in the Developing Human Brain $4,244,432
University of California, San Diego Jerome Mertens Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Unraveling nuclear Tau functions using age-equivalent human induced neurons from healthy aging donors and tauopathy patients $2,137,778
Calibr Giordano Lippi Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects A novel platform to rescue neurodevelopmental disorders caused by haploinsufficiency $4,086,486
Stanford University Dr. Joanna Wysocka PhD Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Mechanisms underlying dosage sensitivity in developmental disorders $2,304,000
Stanford University Professor Seung K. Kim Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Developing replacement islet cells for diabetes using human stem cells $3,943,364
University of California, San Francisco Dr. Tippi C. MacKenzie Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Harnessing developmental biology to achieve safe and efficient in vivo genome editing of HSCs $2,316,683
Gladstone Institutes, J. David Dr. Benoit Bruneau Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Mechanisms of Transcription Factor Haploinsufficiency in Human Congenital Heart Disease $2,444,376
Gladstone Institutes, J. David Dr. Bruce R. Conklin Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Allele Prospector: Leveraging human genetic variation to enable therapeutic genome editing in hundreds of disease genes $5,112,209
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Peter Chen Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects IFN-γ suppresses AT2 cell regeneration to promote lung fibrosis $4,525,190
University of California, Berkeley Dr. Robert Tjian Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Modeling Rett syndrome neurological disorder with human pluripotent stem cells to develop in cellulo screening platforms. $2,393,281
Stanford University Xiaojie Qiu Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Mapping and modeling endothelial cell fate decisions for pulmonary arterial hypertension $1,540,798
Gladstone Institutes, J. David Dr. Steve M. Finkbeiner Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Lewy body dementia, 𝛼-synuclein, and cell-specific mechanisms of neurodegeneration $1,739,760
Minutia, Inc. Katy Digovich Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Immune cloaking of human stem cell-derived insulin-producing cells for curative cell therapy without immunosuppression $1,192,586
University of California, San Francisco Tomasz Nowakowski Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Neuroimmune interactions in the developing human brain $1,626,000
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. M. Carrie Miceli Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Interrogating Satellite Cell and Myofiber Defects and Repair in Human DMD using Single Nuclei/Single Cell RNA Sequencing of Muscle Resident Cells $1,578,000
University of California, San Diego Dr Marianna Alperin Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Harnessing the rejuvenating capacity of pregnancy-associated factors to restore aged stem cell function $1,539,520
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute Ani Deshpande Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Investigating the SGF29/SAGA complex in regulation of normal and cancer stem cells $1,547,999
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Tyler Mark Pierson Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Modeling of GATAD2B-associated neurodevelopmental disorder and NuRDopathies: Investigation of cellular & molecular anomalies altering neurodevelopment $1,318,441
University of California, Los Angeles Michael F Wells Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Village-based identification of human risk factors for viral neuropathogenesis $1,577,448
City of Hope, Beckman Research Institute Qiong Annabel Wang Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Utilizing Age-Specific Adipocyte Progenitor Cells for Cell Therapy in Older Patients $1,508,997
Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation at Harbor – UCLA Medical Center Denise Al Alam Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Modeling and understanding alveolar hypoplasia in Down syndrome using iPSCs-derived alveolar type II cells $1,524,196
University of California, San Francisco Faranak Fattahi Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects hPSC-derived enteric ganglioids for cell therapy in gastrointestinal motility disorders $1,589,307
University of California, Los Angeles William Lowry Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Defining the source of dysfunction in monogenic Intellectual Disability Syndrome neurons $1,500,337
University of California, Santa Cruz Maximilian Haeussler Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects An interactive data resource for hypothesis testing in stem cell single-cell gene expression and validation of the results with brain organoids $1,160,126
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. Kathrin Plath Dr. Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Characterization and applications of human blastoids for understanding early human embryogenesis $1,402,137
University of California, San Francisco Tien Peng Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Ex vivo fate mapping of human lung stem cell plasticity in fibrotic disease $1,625,998
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. Brigitte Gomperts Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Overcoming barriers for airway stem cell gene therapy for Cystic Fibrosis $1,472,858
University of California, San Francisco Erik Ullian Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Modeling Retinitis Pigmentosa using patient-derived human iPSC organoids $1,380,543
University of California, Irvine Albert La Spada Ph.D. Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Role of ataxin-3 polyadenylation site selection in ALS neuron toxicity and disease pathogenesis $1,514,416
University of California, Irvine Dr. Brian J. Cummings Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Mapping the spatial and temporal responses of hESC-derived microglia to repeat mild closed head injury to identify therapeutic targets and mechanisms $1,339,685
University of California, San Francisco Tomasz Nowakowski Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Identifying roadblocks to neural stem cell transplantation into human tissues. $1,551,394
Calibr Xin Jin Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Functional genomics to study cellular convergence across ASD risk genes in neurodevelopment $1,575,001
University of California, Los Angeles UCLA Gay M Crooks Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Engineering pluripotent stem cells for universally available, off-the-shelf T cell therapies $1,352,753
University of California, San Diego Dr. Alon Goren Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Establishment of a novel approach to systematically study the dynamic organization of protein complexes in stem cells $1,515,601
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
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