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, Davis |
Dr. Alice F Tarantal |
Shared Labs |
UC Davis Translational Human Embryonic Stem Cell Shared Research Facility |
$2,000,000 |
Scripps Research Institute |
Sheng Ding PhD |
Shared Labs |
TSRI Center for hESC Research |
$1,440,164 |
Buck Institute for Age Research |
Dr. Xianmin Zeng |
Shared Labs |
North Bay CIRM Shared Research Laboratory for Stem Cells and Aging |
$2,414,749 |
Salk Institute for Biological Studies |
Garry Van Gerpen |
Shared Labs |
Shared viral vector facility for genetic manipulation of huamn ES cell |
$1,478,923 |
University of California, San Francisco |
Dr. Linda C. Giudice |
Shared Labs |
The University of California San Francisco Shared Research and Teaching Laboratory: a Non-Federal Human Embryonic Stem Cell Resource for the Bay Area Community |
$3,289,649 |
University of California, San Diego |
Karl H. Willert |
Shared Labs |
Enhancing Facilities for Genetic Manipulation and Engineering of Human Embryonic Stem Cells at UCSD |
$1,737,133 |
University of California, Santa Barbara |
Dr. Dennis O. Clegg |
Shared Labs |
The UCSB Laboratory for Stem Cell Biology and Engineering |
$1,638,357 |
Stanford University |
Prof Vittorio Sebastiano |
Shared Labs |
The Stanford University Center for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research and Education |
$3,434,600 |
Gladstone Institutes, J. David |
Dr. Deepak Srivastava |
Shared Labs |
The Gladstone CIRM Shared Human Embryonic Stem Cell Core Laboratory |
$1,698,515 |
The Regents of the University of California on behalf of its Riverside Campus |
Dr. Prue Talbot |
Shared Labs |
A Stem Cell Core Facility for Studying Human Embryonic Stem Cell Differentiation |
$1,663,284 |
University of California, Los Angeles |
Dr. Owen N Witte M.D. |
Shared Labs |
CIRM Shared Research Laboratories |
$1,751,297 |
University of California, Davis |
Dr. Alice F Tarantal |
Shared Labs |
UC Davis Translational Human Embryonic Stem Cell Shared Research Facility |
$1,728,111 |
Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles |
Dr. David Warburton |
Shared Labs |
The Childrens Hospital of Los Angeles hESC Facility |
$1,750,259 |
University of California, Santa Cruz |
Dr. Lindsay Hinck |
Shared Labs |
UCSC Shared Stem Cell Facility |
$1,719,722 |
Scripps Research Institute |
Dr. Jeanne F Loring |
Shared Labs |
TSRI Center for hESC Research |
$3,725,070 |
University of Southern California |
Dr. Andrew McMahon |
Shared Labs |
USC Center for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine: Shared Research Laboratory and Course in Current Protocols in Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research |
$3,411,861 |
University of California, Irvine |
Dr. Peter John Donovan Dr. |
Shared Labs |
The University of California: Irvine Regional Human Embryonic Stem Cell Shared Research Laboratory and Stem Cell Techniques Course |
$3,072,500 |
University of California, Berkeley |
Dr. John Eugene Dueber |
Shared Labs |
The Berkeley Human Embryonic Stem Cell Shared Research Laboratory |
$1,673,221 |
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute |
Dr. Evan Y. Snyder |
Shared Labs |
Collaborative Laboratory for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research at Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute |
$1,805,884 |
Buck Institute for Age Research |
Dr. Xianmin Zeng |
Shared Labs |
North Bay CIRM Shared Research Laboratory for Stem Cells and Aging |
$3,478,933 |
Salk Institute for Biological Studies |
Dr. Inder M. Verma |
Shared Labs |
Shared viral vector facility for genetic manipulation of huamn ES cell |
$1,844,315 |
Benjamin D. Yu |
Dr. Benjamin D. Yu |
New Faculty II |
Medical School Loan Repayment Program |
$28,388 |
Gladstone Institutes, J. David |
Dr. Yadong Huang |
New Faculty II |
Defining the Isoform-Specific Effects of Apolipoprotein E on the Development of iPS Cells into Functional Neurons in Vitro and in Vivo |
$2,757,303 |
University of California, San Francisco |
Dr. Emmanuelle Passegue |
New Faculty II |
Mechanisms Underlying the Responses of Normal and Cancer Stem Cells to Environmental and Therapeutic Insults |
$2,124,488 |
University of California, San Francisco |
Dr. Ophir Klein MD, PhD |
New Faculty II |
Laying the groundwork for building a tooth: analysis of dental epithelial stem cells |
$3,075,251 |
University of California, Merced |
Dr. Kara E McCloskey |
New Faculty II |
Building Cardiac Tissue from Stem Cells and Natural Matrices |
$1,656,083 |
University of California, Irvine |
Dr Edwin S Monuki |
New Faculty II |
Mechanisms in Choroid Plexus Epithelial Development |
$2,793,395 |
University of California, Berkeley |
Dr. Lin He |
New Faculty II |
The roles of non-coding RNAs in the self-renewal and differentiation of pluripotent stem cells |
$1,406,823 |
University of California, San Francisco |
Dr. Robert Blelloch Dr. |
New Faculty II |
Mechanisms of small RNA regulation in early embryonic development |
$2,790,695 |
University of California, Los Angeles |
Dr. Antoni Ribas MD/PhD |
New Faculty II |
Stem Cells for Immune System Regeneration to Fight Cancer |
$3,072,000 |
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 |
Catriona Jamieson |
New Faculty II |
Derivation and Characterization of Myeloproliferative Disorder Stem Cells from Human ES Cells |
$3,065,572 |
Stanford University |
Dr. Ching-Pin Chang |
New Faculty II |
VEGF signaling in adventitial stem cells in vascular physiology and disease |
$3,005,695 |
Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research |
Dr. Bing Ren |
New Faculty II |
Mechanisms of chromatin dynamics at enhancers during ES cell differentiation |
$1,726,564 |
University of California, Los Angeles |
Dr. Brigitte Gomperts |
New Faculty II |
Stem Cells in Lung Cancer |
$2,381,572 |
University of California, Davis |
Dr. Paul S. Knoepfler |
New Faculty II |
Molecular mechanisms governing hESC and iPS cell self-renewal and pluripotency |
$2,157,255 |
University of California, San Francisco |
Dr. Jeremy Reiter |
New Faculty II |
High throughput modeling of human neurodegenerative diseases in embryonic stem cells |
$2,259,092 |
Gladstone Institutes, J. David |
Dr. Benoit Bruneau |
New Faculty II |
Induction of cardiogenesis in pluripotent cells via chromatin remodeling factors |
$2,723,653 |
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute |
Dr. Zhuohua Zhang |
New Cell Lines |
Derivation of Parkinson’s Disease Coded-Stem Cells (PD-SCs) |
$1,556,448 |
University of California, Los Angeles |
Dr. Jerome A. Zack Ph.D. |
New Cell Lines |
Generation of clinical grade human iPS cells |
$1,341,000 |
Stanford University |
Dr. Renee Reijo Pera PhD |
New Cell Lines |
Derivation and comparative analysis of human pluripotent ESCs, iPSCs and SSCs: Convergence to an embryonic phenotype |
$1,409,243 |
University of Southern California |
Dr. Martin Pera |
New Cell Lines |
New Technology for the Derivation of Human Pluripotent Stem Cell Lines for Clinical Use |
$1,266,134 |
Stanford University |
Michael T. Longaker M.D. |
New Cell Lines |
Derivation and analysis of pluripotent stem cell lines with inherited TGF-b mediated disorders from donated IVF embryos and reprogrammed adult skin fibroblasts |
$1,406,636 |