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
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Professor Clive Niels Svendsen Disease Team Therapy Development – Research Progenitor Cells Secreting GDNF for the Treatment of ALS $16,168,464
StemCells, Inc. Dr. Alexandra Capela Disease Team Therapy Development – Research Restoration of memory in Alzheimer’s disease: a new paradigm using neural stem cell therapy $8,901,641
Stanford University Dr. Judith A Shizuru Disease Team Therapy Development – Research A monoclonal antibody that depletes blood stem cells and enables chemotherapy free transplants $18,990,683
University of California, Davis Dr. John Laird Disease Team Therapy Development – Research Phase I study of IM Injection of VEGF-Producing MSC for the Treatment of Critical Limb Ischemia $3,728,384
University of California, Davis Dr. Vicki Wheelock Disease Team Therapy Development – Research MSC engineered to produce BDNF for the treatment of Huntington’s disease $8,924,235
StemCells, Inc. Dr. Nobuko Uchida Disease Team Therapy Development – Research Neural stem cell transplantation for chronic cervical spinal cord injury $0
University of California, Davis Nancy E. Lane Disease Team Therapy Development – Research Treatment of non-traumatic osteonecrosis with endogenous Mesenchymal stem cells $18,227,898
Salk Institute for Biological Studies Dr. David R Schubert Early Translational III Stem cell based small molecule therapy for Alzheimer’s disease $1,673,757
City of Hope, Beckman Research Institute Dr. Stephen J Forman Early Translational III Targeting glioma cancer stem cells with receptor-engineered self-renewing memory T cells $5,215,447
Gladstone Institutes, J. David Dr. Deepak Srivastava Early Translational III Direct Cardiac Reprogramming for Heart Regeneration $5,795,871
University of California, San Diego Dr. Lawrence S. B. Goldstein Early Translational III Identifying Drugs for Alzheimer’s Disease with Human Neurons Made From Human IPS cells $1,774,420
University of California, San Diego Dr Yang Xu Early Translational III Human ES cell based therapy of heart failure without allogenic immune rejection $1,857,600
Stanford University Dr. Joseph C. Wu Early Translational III Heart Repair with Human Tissue Engineered Myocardium $4,395,080
University of California, San Francisco Dr Morton Cowan Early Translational III Gene Correction of Autologous Hematopoietic Stem Cells in Artemis Deficient SCID $3,862,367
Stanford University Professor Helen M. Blau PhD Early Translational III Local Delivery of Rejuvenated Old Muscle Stem Cells to Increase Strength in Aged Patients $1,825,283
University of Southern California Dr. Toshio Miki Early Translational III Generation of hepatic cell from placental stem cell for congenital metabolic disorders $1,750,375
Children’s Hospital of Orange County Philip Schwartz Ph.D. Early Translational III Immune-Matched Neural Stem Cell Transplantation for Pediatric Neurodegenerative Disease $4,266,015
University of California, San Francisco Dr. Holger F Willenbring Early Translational III Generation of safe and therapeutically effective human induced hepatocyte-like cells $1,544,170
Salk Institute for Biological Studies Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte Early Translational III Direct reprogramming towards vascular progenitors for the treatment of ischemia $2,340,000
University of California, San Diego Dr. Eric D. Adler Early Translational III Identification of Novel Therapeutics for Danon Disease Using an iPS Model of the Disease $1,701,575
University of California, Davis Walter Douglas Boyd Early Translational III Extracellular Matrix Bioscaffold Augmented with Human Stem Cells for Cardiovascular Repair $4,631,754
Stanford University Dr. Bertha Chen Early Translational III Autologous iPSC Therapy for Urinary Incontinence $4,715,738
University of California, San Diego Mark H Tuszynski Early Translational III Functional Neural Relay Formation by Human Neural Stem Cell Grafting in Spinal Cord Injury $4,600,447
University of California, Davis Prof. Kyriacos A. Athanasiou Ph.D Early Translational III Tissue engineered cartilage from autologous, dermis-isolated, adult, stem (DIAS) cells $1,735,703
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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