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
Scripps Research Institute Peter G. Schultz Training Grant I-2 Training Grant I $1,021,395
University of California, Davis Dr. Frederick J Meyers MD Training Grant I-1 Stem Cell Research Training Grant $1,780,859
University of California, San Francisco Dr. Susan J Fisher PhD Training Grant I-1 Training Grant I $2,868,145
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. Owen N Witte M.D. Training Grant I-1 CIRM Type I Comprehensive Training Program $3,660,398
University of Southern California Dr. Robert E Maxson Training Grant I-1 CIRM Stem Cell Biology Training Grant $2,332,431
University of California, Irvine Dr. Peter Bryant Training Grant I-1 Stem Cell Research Training Grant $1,935,487
University of California, Berkeley Randy W. Schekman Training Grant I-1 Human Stem Cell Training at UC Berkeley and Childrens Hospital of Oakland $2,360,457
University of California, San Diego Dr. Lawrence S. B. Goldstein Training Grant I-1 Interdisciplinary Stem Cell Training Program at UCSD $3,459,396
Stanford University Michael T. Longaker M.D. Training Grant I-1 Stanford CIRM Training Program $3,035,282
University of California, Davis Dr Mehrdad Abedi Disease Team Therapy Planning I Stem Cell Gene Therapy for HIV in AIDS Lymphoma Patients $66,880
University of California, Davis Dr. John Laird Disease Team Therapy Planning I Phase I study of IM Injection of VEGF Producing MSC for the Treatment of Critical Limb Ischemia $76,066
University of California, Davis Dr. Vicki Wheelock Disease Team Therapy Planning I MSC engineered to produce BDNF for the treatment of Huntington’s disease $97,564
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Professor Clive Niels Svendsen Disease Team Therapy Planning I Stem Cells Secreting GDNF for the Treatment of ALS $63,487
Stanford University Dr. Albert J Wong Disease Team Therapy Planning I Recombinant Bispecific Antibody Targeting Cancer Stem Cells for the Therapy of Glioblastoma $109,750
Stanford University Dr. Judith A Shizuru Disease Team Therapy Planning I A monoclonal antibody that depletes blood stem cells and enables chemotherapy free transplants $90,147
OncoMed Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Timothy Hoey Disease Team Therapy Planning I Anti-Notch1, OMP-52M51: A New Cancer Therapeutic to Reduce CSC Frequency $65,120
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Dr. Dan Gazit Disease Team Therapy Planning I Genetically Engineered Mesenchymal Stem Cells for the Treatment of Vertebral Compression Fractures. $107,622
StemCells, Inc. Dr. Alexandra Capela Disease Team Therapy Planning I Neuroprotection to treat Alzheimer’s: a new paradigm using human central nervous system cells $90,101
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. Stanley Nelson Disease Team Therapy Planning I Combination therapy to Enhance Antisense Mediated Exon Skipping for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy $68,947
Geron Corporation Dr. Jane Stephanie Lebkowski Dr. Disease Team Therapy Planning I Preclinical Development and First-In-Human Testing of GRNCM1 in Advanced Heart Failure $0
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute Dr. Marcel Daadi Dr. Disease Team Therapy Planning I Neural Stem Cell-Based Therapy For Parkinson’s Disease $63,952
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute Dr. Stuart A Lipton Disease Team Therapy Planning I hESC-derived NPCs Programmed with MEF2C for Cell Transplantation in Parkinson’s Disease $96,448
University of California, Davis Nancy E. Lane Disease Team Therapy Planning I Increasing the endogenous mesenchymal stem cells to the bone surface to treat osteoporosis $107,750
University of Southern California Roberta Diaz Brinton Disease Team Therapy Planning I A CIRM Disease Team to Develop Allopregnanolone for Prevention and Treatment of Alzheimer’s Disease $107,961
Samumed, LLC John Hood Disease Team Therapy Planning I Clinical Development of an osteoinductive therapy to prevent osteoporosis-related fractures $99,110
Stanford University Dr. Robert Robbins Disease Team Therapy Planning I Human Embryonic Stem Cell-Derived Cardiomyocytes for Patients with End Stage Heart Failure $73,030
University of California, Davis Dr. Martin Birchall Disease Team Therapy Planning I Airways for Children $19,800
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. Antoni Ribas MD/PhD Disease Team Therapy Planning I Genetic Re-programming of Stem Cells to Fight Cancer $97,785
California State University San Marcos Corporation Dr. Bianca Romina Mothé Bridges California State University-San Marcos CIRM Bridges to the Stem Cell Research Training Grant $4,114,712
Cal State Univ, Long Beach Dr. Lisa S Klig Bridges CIRM Stem Cell Research Biotechnology Training Program at CSULB $3,487,091
Cal Poly Pomona Foundation Dr. Jill Adler-Moore Bridges Cal Poly Pomona and Cal State LA Collaborative CIRM Bridges Program to Enhance Stem Cell Research Training and Education $3,056,191
San Francisco State University Dr. Carmen Domingo Bridges SFSU Bridges to Stem Cell Research $4,168,243
Humboldt State University Sponsored Programs Foundation Dr. Jacob Varkey Bridges The HSU CIRM Bridges to Stem Cell Research Certificate Program $3,195,858
San Diego State University Foundation Ralph Feuer Bridges SDSU/CIRM Stem Cell Internship Program $4,156,315
California State University, Channel Islands Dr. Nitika S Parmar Bridges Curriculum Development and Implementation of Stem Cell Technology and Laboratory Management Emphasis in an Established MS Biotechnology and Bioinformatics Program at California State University Channel Islands and Co-development of a GE Course on Stem Cel $4,165,092
Berkeley City College Dr. Barbara Des Rochers Bridges Specialty in Stem Cell Biology $2,227,230
City College Of San Francisco Dr. Carin Zimmerman Bridges City College of San Francisco Stem Cell Training Enhancement Program $2,649,780
SJSU Research Foundation Tzvia Abramson Bridges San Jose State University Stem Cell Internships for Laboratory-based Learning (SJSU SCILL) $4,154,051
Pasadena City College Dr. Pamela Eversole-Cire Bridges Bridges to Stem Cell Research at Pasadena City College $3,596,922
Cal State Univ, San Bernadino Dr. Nicole Bournias-Vardiabasis Bridges CSUSB Bridges to Stem Cell Research $2,762,085
Cal State Univ, Sacramento Lisa Hammersley Bridges Strengthening the Pipeline of Masters-level Scientific and Laboratory Personnel in Stem Cell Research $3,057,754
The University Corporation at California State University, Northridge Dr. Cindy S Malone Bridges CSUN-UCLA Bridges to Stem Cell Research $3,814,078
Cal State Univ, Fullerton Dr. Nilay V Patel Bridges Stem Cell Training Program at CSU Fullerton – A Bridge to Stem Cell Research $2,764,079
Cal Poly Corporation, an Auxiliary of California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo Trevor Cardinal Bridges Masters of Science Specialization in Stem Cell Technology $3,480,357
Stanford University Dr. Theo D. Palmer PhD Research Training II Stanford CIRM Training Program $7,017,629
University of California, San Diego Dr Sylvia Evans Research Training II Interdisciplinary Stem Cell Training Program at UCSD II $7,432,600
Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles Dr. David Warburton Research Training II CHLA Stem Cell Training Grant $5,020,920
University of California, Los Angeles Kenneth Dorshkind Research Training II UCLA CIRM Research Training Program II $7,790,488
Scripps Research Institute Dr. Ulrich Mueller Research Training II Training Stem Cell Researchers at the Chemistry-Biology Interface $3,697,326
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute Dr Alessandra Sacco Research Training II Type III CIRM Stem Cell Research Training Program $2,781,376
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