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.
All CIRM Grants
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| Institution |
Researcher name |
Grant Type |
Grant Title |
Award Value |
| University of California, San Diego |
Dr. Kang Zhang M.D. |
Tissue Collection for Disease Modeling |
Generation of fibroblast cell lines in patients with common blinding eye diseases |
$1,034,425 |
| Stanford University |
Dr. Joseph C. Wu |
Tissue Collection for Disease Modeling |
Tissue Collection for Accelerating iPSC Research in Cardiovascular Diseases |
$1,291,832 |
| University of California, San Diego |
Dr. James Brewer |
Tissue Collection for Disease Modeling |
Collection of skin biopsies to prepare fibroblasts from patients with Alzheimer’s disease and cognitively healthy elderly controls |
$643,693 |
| Stanford University |
Dr. Joachim Franz Hallmayer |
Tissue Collection for Disease Modeling |
Induced pluripotent stem cells from children with autism spectrum disorders |
$530,265 |
| University of California, Los Angeles |
Dr. Brigitte Gomperts |
Tissue Collection for Disease Modeling |
Using human induced pluripotent stem cells to improve our understanding of Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis |
$811,231 |
| University of California, San Francisco |
Jacquelyn J Maher |
Tissue Collection for Disease Modeling |
iPSC-derived Hepatocytes as Platforms for Research in Viral Hepatitis and Non-alcoholic Steatohepatitis |
$791,680 |
| Reza Ardehali |
Dr. Reza Ardehali MD, PhD |
New Faculty Physician Scientist |
Medical School Loan Repayment Program |
$35,511 |
| Tippi C. Mackenzie |
Dr. Tippi C. Mackenzie MD |
New Faculty Physician Scientist |
Medical School Loan Repayment Program |
$36,436 |
| Ali Nsair |
Ali Nsair |
New Faculty Physician Scientist |
Medical School Loan Repayment Program |
$120,312 |
| University of California, San Francisco |
Dr. Tippi C. MacKenzie |
New Faculty Physician Scientist |
In Utero Embryonic Stem Cell Transplantation to Treat Congenital Anomalies |
$2,661,742 |
| Cedars-Sinai Medical Center |
Dr. Robert H Baloh |
New Faculty Physician Scientist |
Human iPSC modeling and therapeutics for degenerative peripheral nerve disease |
$3,031,737 |
| Stanford University |
Alan G Cheng |
New Faculty Physician Scientist |
Enhancing hair cell regeneration in mouse and human inner ear |
$3,088,525 |
| University of California, San Francisco |
Dr. Ophir Klein MD, PhD |
New Faculty Physician Scientist |
Stem cell therapy for inflammatory bowel disease |
$3,019,013 |
| Stanford University |
Michelle Monje |
New Faculty Physician Scientist |
White matter neuroregeneration after chemotherapy: stem cell therapy for “chemobrain” |
$2,800,526 |
| University of California, San Francisco |
Jason Harris Pomerantz |
New Faculty Physician Scientist |
Characterization of Human Skeletal Muscle Stem Cells for Clinical Application |
$2,959,014 |
| University of California, San Francisco |
Ann Capela Zovein |
New Faculty Physician Scientist |
Human endothelial reprogramming for hematopoietic stem cell therapy. |
$2,197,683 |
| University of California, Davis |
Emanual Michael Maverakis |
New Faculty Physician Scientist |
Tunable hydrogels for therapeutic delivery of multipotent stem cells. |
$2,771,903 |
| University of California, Los Angeles |
Dr. Ali Nsair MD |
New Faculty Physician Scientist |
Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Cardiovascular Progenitor Cells for Cardiac Cell Therapy. |
$2,316,894 |
| Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles |
Dr. Tracy Cannon Grikscheit M.D. |
New Faculty Physician Scientist |
The generation and expansion of tissue-engineered small intestine from human stem/ progenitor cells: a preclinical study of functional translation |
$3,146,160 |
| University of California, San Diego |
Dr. Mana M Parast |
New Faculty Physician Scientist |
Human pluripotent stem cell-based therapeutics for preeclampsia |
$2,974,750 |
| University of California, Los Angeles |
Dr. Reza Ardehali MD, PhD |
New Faculty Physician Scientist |
Preclinical evaluation of human embryonic stem cell-derived cardiovascular progenitors in a large animal model |
$2,930,388 |
| Gladstone Institutes, J. David |
Ms. Shannon Noonan |
Creativity Awards |
Gladstone Summer Scholars (GSS) internship program |
$35,044 |
| City of Hope, Beckman Research Institute |
Dr. Paul M. Salvaterra |
Creativity Awards |
Creativity Award Program in Stem Cell Biology for California High School Students |
$260,825 |
| University of California, Davis |
Gerhard Gerhard Bauer |
Creativity Awards |
Internship at a Cutting Edge CIRM-funded Stem Cell Research Facility |
$250,064 |
| University of California, San Francisco |
Katherine Nielsen |
Creativity Awards |
UCSF SEP High School Intern Program |
$168,947 |
| University of California, Santa Barbara |
Lina Kim |
Creativity Awards |
Research Mentorship Program-Immersing High School Students in College Research |
$280,726 |
| UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland |
Vasanthy Narayanaswami |
Creativity Awards |
CHORI/UC Berkeley Summer Stem Cell Research Internship Program for High School Students |
$151,046 |
| Stanford University |
Paul J. Utz |
Creativity Awards |
SIMR Program: Stem Cell & Developmental Biology Research Internships |
$340,611 |
| Scripps Research Institute |
James R Williamson |
Creativity Awards |
Stem Cell Summer Academy: Creating the Next Generation of Scientists |
$205,122 |
| University of Southern California |
Roberta Diaz Brinton |
Creativity Awards |
CIRM STAR High School Summer Research and Creativity Program |
$271,160 |
| University of California, San Diego |
George Sen |
Basic Biology IV |
Regulation of Epidermal Self-Renewal and Differentiation by Histone and DNA Demethylases. |
$1,080,000 |
| Gladstone Institutes, J. David |
Dr. Benoit Bruneau |
Basic Biology IV |
Epigenetic regulation of human cardiac differentiation |
$1,568,148 |
| Stanford University |
Dr. Gerald R. Crabtree |
Basic Biology IV |
Mechanism and Utility of Direct Neuronal Conversion with a MicroRNA-Chromatin Switch |
$1,392,150 |
| Stanford University |
Dr. Roel Nusse |
Basic Biology IV |
Asymmetric stem cell division oriented by a local self-renewing signal |
$1,038,600 |
| Buck Institute for Age Research |
Deepak A Lamba |
Basic Biology IV |
3D Modeling of Retina using Polymer Scaffolds for Understanding Disease Pathogenesis |
$1,212,553 |
| University of California, San Francisco |
Dr. Jeremy Reiter |
Basic Biology IV |
Modeling disease in human embryonic stem cells using new genetic tools |
$1,387,800 |
| University of California, San Francisco |
Barbara Panning |
Basic Biology IV |
Investigation of the role of O-GlcNAcylation in SOX2 function during reprogramming |
$1,260,037 |
| University of California, Davis |
Dr. Deborah K Lieu |
Basic Biology IV |
Induction of Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Pacemaking Cells |
$1,333,689 |
| Stanford University |
Dr. Howard Y. Chang |
Basic Biology IV |
Long noncoding RNAs for pluripotency and cell fate commitment |
$1,386,627 |
| University of California, San Diego |
Miles F Wilkinson |
Basic Biology IV |
Role of the NMD RNA Decay Pathway in Maintaining the Stem-Like State |
$1,360,450 |
| Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute |
Dr. Huei-sheng Vincent Chen |
Basic Biology IV |
Studying Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Dysplasia with patient-specific iPS cells |
$1,579,250 |
| University of California, San Diego |
Ananda Goldrath |
Basic Biology IV |
Mechanisms to protect hESC-derived cells from allogenic immune rejection |
$1,160,997 |
| City of Hope, Beckman Research Institute |
Dr. Yanhong Shi Ph.D. |
Basic Biology IV |
Modeling Alexander disease using patient-specific induced pluripotent stem cells |
$1,366,656 |
| Cedars-Sinai Medical Center |
Eduardo Marbán |
Basic Biology IV |
Mechanism of heart regeneration by cardiosphere-derived cells |
$1,367,604 |
| University of California, San Diego |
Maike Sander |
Basic Biology IV |
Deciphering transcriptional control of pancreatic beta-cell maturation in vitro |
$1,258,560 |
| University of California, San Diego |
Dr. David Traver |
Basic Biology IV |
DECIPHERING THE INSTRUCTIONS FOR VERTEBRATE HSC SPECIFICATION AND AMPLIFICATION. |
$1,363,698 |
| University of California, Los Angeles |
Dr. Owen N Witte M.D. |
Basic Biology IV |
Trop2 dependent and independent mechanisms of self-renewal in human cancer stem cells |
$1,254,960 |
| Stanford University |
Ben A Barres |
Basic Biology IV |
Phenotyping Human Astrocytes in Health and Disease |
$0 |
| University of California, Berkeley |
Dr. Robert Tjian |
Basic Biology IV |
Transcriptional regulation of pluripotency in human embryonic stem cells |
$1,220,968 |
| University of California, Los Angeles |
Dr. Kathrin Plath Dr. |
Basic Biology IV |
Understanding the status of the X chromosomes in human ESCs and preimplantation embryos |
$1,382,400 |
