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.

See our complete portfolio of awards below.

All CIRM Grants

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Institution Researcher name Grant Type Grant Title Award Value
University of California, Los Angeles Steven Schwartz Therapeutic Translational Research Projects Clinical Translation of Autologous Regenerative Cell Therapy for Blindness $5,068,026
University of California, San Francisco Dr. Karin Lindgren Gaensler Therapeutic Translational Research Projects Developing engineered autologous leukemia vaccines to target residual leukemic stem cells $4,171,728
University of California, Irvine Dr. Magdalene J Seiler Therapeutic Translational Research Projects Morphological and functional integration of stem cell derived retina organoid sheets into degenerating retina models $4,769,039
Stanford University Dr. Bertha Chen Therapeutic Translational Research Projects Autologous iPSC-derived smooth muscle cell therapy for treatment of urinary incontinence $5,977,155
MAX BioPharma, Inc. Dr. Farhad Parhami Phd, MBA Therapeutic Translational Research Projects Therapeutic development of Oxy200, an oxysterol with bone anabolic and anti-resorptive properties for intervention in osteoporosis $1,400,000
University of California, San Diego Dan S Kaufman Therapeutic Translational Research Projects Human Embryonic Stem Cell-Derived Natural Killer Cells for Cancer Treatment $3,260,000
University of California, San Diego Dr. Catriona Jamieson Therapeutic Translational Research Projects A Splicing Modulator Targeting Cancer Stem Cells in Acute Myeloid Leukemia $2,511,767
Stanford University Dr. Anthony E. Oro Therapeutic Translational Research Projects DEBCT: Genetically Corrected, Induced Pluripotent Cell-Derived Epithelial Sheets for Definitive Treatment of Dystrophic Epidermolysis Bullosa $5,104,107
University of California, San Diego Ezra Cohen Therapeutic Translational Research Projects Development of ROR1 CAR-T cells to target cancer stem cells in advanced malignancies $5,795,584
University of California, San Diego Dr Karen Christman Therapeutic Translational Research Projects Injectable pro-regenerative scaffold for treating symptomatic peripheral artery disease $2,839,317
Gladstone Institutes, J. David Dr. Yadong Huang Therapeutic Translational Research Projects Human iPSC-derived GABAergic Progenitors for Alzheimer’s Disease Treatment $1,900,000
University of California, San Francisco Mark C. Walters M.D. Therapeutic Translational Research Projects Curing Sickle cell Disease with CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing $60,635
UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland Dr. Mark C. Walters M.D. Therapeutic Translational Research Projects Curing Sickle cell Disease with CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing $4,394,276
University of Southern California Dr. Denis A Evseenko Dr. Therapeutic Translational Research Projects Pluripotent stem cell-derived chondrocytes for articular cartilage repair $2,503,104
Ankasa Regenerative Therapeutics, Inc. Ying Zhu Therapeutic Translational Research Projects An autologous somatic stem cell therapy for the treatment of osteonecrosis $2,088,780
University of California, Davis Dr. William J Murphy Therapeutic Translational Research Projects Placental Derived Natural Killer Cells to Target Solid Tumor Cancer Stem Cells (CSC) $0
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. Peter Cawood Butler Therapeutic Translational Research Projects Personalized Cell Therapy for Diabetes $1,494,896
Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc Dr. Felicia Pagliuca Therapeutic Translational Research Projects Personalized Cell Therapy for Diabetes $597,333
University of California, San Diego Dr. Lawrence S. B. Goldstein Therapeutic Translational Research Projects Human Embryonic Stem Cell-Derived Neural Stem Cell Transplants in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis $1,790,000
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. Lili Yang Therapeutic Translational Research Projects Stem Cell-Based iNKT Cell Therapy for Cancer $6,956,775
City of Hope, Beckman Research Institute Dr. Yanhong Shi Therapeutic Translational Research Projects Process development for establishing an iPSC-based therapeutic candidate for Canavan disease $7,377,384
Stanford University Dr. Albert J Wong Therapeutic Translational Research Projects 2nd Generation Vaccine for the Treatment of Glioblastoma $2,929,889
University of California, Davis Dr. Joseph S Anderson Therapeutic Translational Research Projects Overexpression of HexA/HexB by lentivector expression in blood cells to treat Tay-Sachs and Sandhoff disease $883,174
Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles Dr. Mark R Frey Therapeutic Translational Research Projects ASCENT- Advanced Stem Cell Enteric Neuropathy Therapy $7,077,352
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Professor Clive Niels Svendsen Disease Team Therapy Planning I Stem Cells Secreting GDNF for the Treatment of ALS $63,487
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