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 Craig Michael Walsh Shared Labs Grant – Enhancing/Expanding SRLs Shared Resources Laboratories to Enhance In Vitro Stem Cell Modeling and Training $3,641,396
Humboldt State University Sponsored Programs Foundation Dr Amy Sprowles Shared Labs Grant – Establishing SRLs Cal Poly Humboldt Shared Resource Laboratory for Human Stem Cell-Based Modeling (SRL-hSC) $4,399,888
University of California, Merced Dr. Kara E McCloskey Shared Labs Grant – Establishing SRLs UCM Resources for Expanding Stem cell-derived Tissues and Organs for Regenerative Engineering (RESTORE) $5,396,133
Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation at Harbor – UCLA Medical Center Denise Al Alam Shared Labs Grant – Establishing SRLs Stem cell-based Parternship Resource for Investigating Human Diseases and Training (SPRINT) $5,400,000
City of Hope, Beckman Research Institute Dr. Nadia Carlesso Ph.D., M.D. Shared Labs Grant – Establishing SRLs Stem Cell-based Disease Modeling Shared Resource Laboratory $5,400,000
University of California, Davis Brian Fury Manufacturing Network Grant Creating A Collaborative California Cell and Gene Therapy Manufacturing Network $1,543,522
City of Hope, Beckman Research Institute Dr. Taby Ahsan Manufacturing Network Grant Scalable Expansion for Stem Cell-derived Therapies $1,998,174
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. Dawn Ward Manufacturing Network Grant Enhancing California’s Manufacturing of Leading-Edge Cell & Gene Therapies $2,000,000
University of California, San Francisco Dr Brian Rudolph Shy Manufacturing Network Grant Open Manufacturing Network for Cell and Gene Therapies $1,999,933
University of Southern California Mohamed Abou-el-Enein Manufacturing Network Grant Advancing Cell Therapy Manufacturing Through Collaboration $1,999,964
Stanford University Steven Feldman Manufacturing Network Grant Laboratory for Cell and Gene Medicine: A partner in the California Cell and Gene Therapy Manufacturing Network $2,000,000
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Dr. Dhruv Sareen Manufacturing Network Grant A comprehensive biomanufacturing center solving bottlenecks in cell and gene therapy manufacturing to accelerate new therapies for California patients $2,000,000
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
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