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 |
| University of California, Davis |
Dr. Alice F Tarantal |
Comprehensive Grant |
Preclinical Model for Labeling, Transplant, and In Vivo Imaging of Differentiated Human Embryonic Stem Cells |
$2,166,757 |
| Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute |
Dr. Stuart A Lipton |
Comprehensive Grant |
MEF2C-Directed Neurogenesis From Human Embryonic Stem Cells |
$2,832,000 |
| Stanford University |
Dr. Stefan Heller |
Comprehensive Grant |
Generation of inner ear sensory cells from human ES cells toward a cure for deafness |
$2,330,371 |
| University of California, Irvine |
Dr. Peter John Donovan Dr. |
Comprehensive Grant |
Improved hES Cell Growth and Differentiation |
$2,381,713 |
| Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles |
Dr. Gay M. Crooks |
Comprehensive Grant |
Regulated Expansion of Lympho-hematopoietic Stem and Progenitor Cells from Human Embryonic Stem Cells (hESC) |
$575,994 |
| University of California, Los Angeles |
UCLA Gay M Crooks |
Comprehensive Grant |
Regulated Expansion of Lympho-hematopoietic Stem and Progenitor Cells from Human Embryonic Stem Cells (hESC) |
$1,653,416 |
| University of California, San Francisco |
Dr. Samuel Pleasure |
Comprehensive Grant |
Human stem cell derived oligodendrocytes for treatment of stroke and MS |
$2,459,235 |
| University of California, San Francisco |
Dr. Harold S Bernstein Dr. |
Comprehensive Grant |
Modeling Myocardial Therapy with Human Embryonic Stem Cells |
$2,134,694 |
| Stanford University |
Dr. Roel Nusse |
Comprehensive Grant |
Guiding the developmental program of human embryonic stem cells by isolated Wnt factors |
$1,710,462 |
| University of California, Los Angeles |
Dr. Guoping Fan Dr. |
Comprehensive Grant |
Epigenetic gene regulation during the differentiation of human embryonic stem cells: Impact on neural repair |
$2,412,995 |
| University of California, San Diego |
Prof. Martin Marsala |
Comprehensive Grant |
Spinal ischemic paraplegia: modulation by human embryonic stem cell implant. |
$2,356,090 |
| Gladstone Institutes, J. David |
Dr. Deepak Srivastava |
Comprehensive Grant |
microRNA Regulation of Cardiomyocyte Differentiation from Human Embryonic Stem Cells |
$2,994,719 |
| Salk Institute for Biological Studies |
Dr. Fred H Gage |
Comprehensive Grant |
Molecular and Cellular Transitions from ES Cells to Mature Functioning Human Neurons |
$2,749,293 |
| Stanford University |
Renee Reijo Pera |
Comprehensive Grant |
Human oocyte development for genetic, pharmacological and reprogramming applications |
$2,298,411 |
| University of California, San Francisco |
Dr. Susan J Fisher PhD |
Comprehensive Grant |
Constructing a fate map of the human embryo |
$2,430,487 |
| University of California, Irvine |
Dr. Douglas C. Wallace |
Comprehensive Grant |
The Dangers of Mitochondrial DNA Heteroplasmy in Stem Cells Created by Therapeutic Cloning |
$1,790,133 |
| University of California, San Francisco |
Dr. Arnold Kriegstein MD, PhD |
Comprehensive Grant |
Derivation of Inhibitory Nerve Cells from Human Embryonic Stem Cells |
$2,410,874 |
| Stanford University |
Dr. Christopher K. Zarins |
Comprehensive Grant |
Engineering a Cardiovascular Tissue Graft from Human Embryonic Stem Cells |
$2,454,490 |
| Stanford University |
Dr. Theo D. Palmer PhD |
Comprehensive Grant |
Immunology of neural stem cell fate and function |
$2,396,000 |
| Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute |
Mark Mercola |
Comprehensive Grant |
Chemical Genetic Approach to Production of hESC-derived Cardiomyocytes |
$2,832,000 |
| University of California, San Francisco |
Dr. Randall James Lee |
Comprehensive Grant |
Embryonic Stem Cell-Derived Therapies Targeting Cardiac Ischemic Disease |
$2,424,353 |
| University of California, San Diego |
Dr. Lawrence S. B. Goldstein |
Comprehensive Grant |
Using Human Embryonic Stem Cells to Understand and to Develop New Therapies for Alzheimer’s Disease |
$1,859,414 |
| Stanford University |
Dr. Julie Baker |
Comprehensive Grant |
Functional Genomic Analysis of Chemically Defined Human Embryonic Stem Cells |
$2,518,303 |
| University of California, Irvine |
Dr. Kyoko Yokomori |
SEED Grant |
Derivation and characterization of human ES cells from FSHD embryos |
$607,200 |
| University of California, Davis |
Dr. Ebenezer N Yamoah |
SEED Grant |
Hair Cells and Spiral Ganglion Neuron Differentiation from Human Embryonic Stem Cells |
$458,071 |
| University of California, San Francisco |
Dr. Holger F Willenbring |
SEED Grant |
Induction of pluripotency in fibroblasts by fusion with enucleated human embryonic stem cell syncytia |
$329,245 |
| University of California, San Francisco |
Dr. Thea D. Tlsty PhD |
SEED Grant |
Role of the tumor suppressor gene, p16INK4a, in regulating stem cell phenotypes in embryonic stem cells and human epithelial cells. |
$614,784 |
| University of California, Irvine |
Dr. Vincent Procaccio |
SEED Grant |
Mitochondrial Dysfunction in Embryonic Stem Cells |
$245,397 |
| University of California, Irvine |
Dr. Grant R MacGregor |
SEED Grant |
Production of Oocytes from Human ES Cells |
$385,466 |
| University of California, Irvine |
Thomas Edward Lane |
SEED Grant |
Human Embryonic Stem Cells and Remyelination in a Viral Model of Demyelination |
$368,081 |
| Stanford University |
Dr. Aaron J Hsueh |
SEED Grant |
Patient-specific cells with nuclear transfer |
$629,653 |
| University of California, Los Angeles |
Dr. Noriyuki Kasahara |
SEED Grant |
Down-Regulation of Alloreactive Immune Responses to hES Cell-Derived Graft Tissues |
$399,239 |
| Stanford University |
Dr. Joseph C. Wu |
SEED Grant |
In Vivo Imaging of Human Embryonic Stem Cell Derivatives and Tumorigenicity |
$623,634 |
| University of California, San Diego |
Dr. Binhai Zheng Dr. |
SEED Grant |
Genetic manipulation of human embryonic stem cells and its application in studying CNS development and repair |
$600,441 |
| Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute |
Dr. Zhuohua Zhang |
SEED Grant |
Modeling Parkinson’s Disease Using Human Embryonic Stem Cells |
$701,060 |
| Stanford University |
Kenneth Weinberg |
SEED Grant |
Embryonic stem cell-derived thymic epithelial cells |
$628,793 |
| University of Southern California |
Dr. Qilong Ying |
SEED Grant |
Self-renewal of human embryonic stem cells |
$621,421 |
| University of California, Davis |
Professor A. Hari Reddi |
SEED Grant |
hESCs for Articular Cartilage Regeneration |
$301,703 |
| University of California, Los Angeles |
Dr. Hanna Mikkola |
SEED Grant |
Improving microenvironments to promote hematopoietic stem cell development from human embryonic stem cells |
$550,241 |
| University of California, Berkeley |
Ellen Robey |
SEED Grant |
In Vitro Differentiation of T cells from Human Embryonic Stem Cells. |
$477,894 |
| Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute |
Dr. Robert G. Oshima |
SEED Grant |
Trophoblast differentiation of human ES cells. |
$696,354 |
| Salk Institute for Biological Studies |
Dr. Samuel Pfaff |
SEED Grant |
Gene regulatory mechanisms that control spinal neuron differentiation from hES cells. |
$704,543 |
| University of California, Los Angeles |
William Lowry |
SEED Grant |
Modeling Human Embryonic Development with Human Embryonic Stem Cells |
$528,096 |
| University of California, Irvine |
Dr. Frank LaFerla |
SEED Grant |
Development of human ES cell lines as a model system for Alzheimer disease drug discovery |
$473,963 |
| University of California, Los Angeles |
Dr. Siavash Kurdistani |
SEED Grant |
Cellular epigenetic diversity as a blueprint for defining the identity and functional potential of human embryonic stem cells |
$549,698 |
| Stanford University |
Dr. Mark Kay Dr. |
SEED Grant |
Novel vectors for gene transfer into human ES cells |
$574,737 |
| Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute |
Professor Ziwei Huang |
SEED Grant |
New Chemokine-Derived Therapeutics Targeting Stem Cell Migration |
$708,000 |
| University of Southern California |
Dr. David R. Hinton |
SEED Grant |
Therapeutic potential of Retinal Pigment Epithelial cell lines derived from hES cells for retinal degeneration. |
$651,607 |
| Stanford University |
Dr. Susan K McConnell |
SEED Grant |
Optimization of guidance response in human embryonic stem cell derived midbrain dopaminergic neurons in development and disease |
$607,363 |
| Gladstone Institutes, J. David |
Dr. Warner C Greene |
SEED Grant |
The APOBEC3 Gene Family as Guardians of Genome Stability in Human Embryonic Stem Cells |
$717,363 |
