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
San Diego State University Foundation Dr. Ricardo M. Zayas New Faculty II The molecular basis underlying adult neurogenesis during regeneration and tissue renewal $1,712,225
University of Southern California Dr. Qilong Ying New Faculty II Mechanisms Underlying the Diverse Functions of STAT3 in Embryonic Stem Cell Fate Regulation $2,261,174
University of California, San Diego Dr. Benjamin D. Yu New Faculty II Regulation of Adult Stem Cell Proliferation by RAS and Cell-Permeable Proteins $3,017,978
University of California, San Diego Dr. Shyni Varghese New Faculty II A Novel Microenvironment-Mediated Functional Skeletal Muscle from Human Embryonic Stem Cells and their In Vivo Engraftment $2,300,569
University of California, San Francisco Dr. Holger F Willenbring New Faculty II Molecular dissection of adult liver regeneration to guide the generation of hepatocytes from pluripotent stem cells $2,832,008
Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles Dr. Tracy Cannon Grikscheit M.D. New Faculty II Mechanism of Tissue Engineered Small Intestine Formation $3,211,122
University of California, San Diego Dr. Mana M Parast New Faculty II Molecular Mechanisms of Trophoblast Stem Cell Specification and Self-Renewal $3,077,918
University of Southern California Dr. Gage Crump New Faculty II Skeletogenic Neural Crest Cells in Embryonic Development and Adult Regeneration of the Jaw $2,247,403
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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