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, San Francisco Dr. Shuvo Roy Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Silicon Nanopore Membrane encapsulated enriched-Beta Clusters for Type 1 Diabetes treatment $1,113,000
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. Scott G Kitchen Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Engineering Lifelong Cellular Immunity to HIV $1,701,178
University of California, San Diego Dr. Tannishtha Reya Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Targeting Cancer Stem Cells in Hematologic Malignancies $1,960,560
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. Thomas Carmichael M.D., Ph.D. Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects iPS Glial Therapy for White Matter Stroke and Vascular Dementia $2,086,130
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. April Pyle Ph.D. Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Identification and Generation of Long Term Repopulating Human Muscle Stem Cells from Human Pluripotent Stem Cells $2,148,519
Stanford University Dr. Kyle M Loh Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Towards hepatocyte cell replacement therapy: developing a renewable source of human hepatocytes from pluripotent stem cells $1,968,456
University of California, San Diego Mark H Tuszynski Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Neural Stem Cell Relays for Severe Spinal Cord Injury $1,638,900
Stanford University Dr. Helen M Blau Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Stimulating endogenous muscle stem cells to counter muscle atrophy $2,198,687
ViaCyte, Inc. Dr. Alan D. Agulnick Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Preclinical development of an immune evasive islet cell replacement therapy for type 1 diabetes $1,470,987
University of California, San Diego Dr Yang Xu Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Development of immune invisible beta cells as a cell therapy for type 1 diabetes through genetic modification of hESCs $1,924,791
Neurona Therapeutics Dr. Cory R Nicholas Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Development of a Cellular Therapeutic for Treatment of Epilepsy $1,616,536
City of Hope, Beckman Research Institute Dr. Saswati Chatterjee Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Genome Editing of Sinusoidal Endothelial Stem Cells for Permanent Correction of Hemophilia A $2,182,193
University of California, Irvine Dr. Brian J. Cummings Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Identification and characterization of the optimal human neural stem cell line (hNSC) for the treatment of traumatic brain injury (TBI) 2.0. $1,671,213
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. Vaithilingaraja Arumugaswami PhD Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Immunization strategies to prevent Zika viral congenital eye and brain disease $2,128,867
Rumi Scientific CA Ali H. Brivanlou Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Discovery of therapeutics for Huntington’s Disease $1,399,800
University of California, Los Angeles UCLA Gay M Crooks Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Platform Technology for Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived T cell Immunotherapy $965,636
X-Therma Inc. Dr. Xiaoxi Wei Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Non-Toxic, Highly-Effective Bioinspired Cryoprotectants for On-Demand Stem Cell Therapies $887,883
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. Caroline Y. Kuo Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Targeted Gene Editing in the Treatment of X-Linked Hyper-IgM Syndrome $1,512,333
University of California, Davis Dr. Deborah K Lieu Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Microenvironment for hiPSC-derived pacemaking cardiomyocytes $2,042,438
Stanford University Dr. Mark Mercola Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Multipotent Cardiovascular Progenitor Regeneration of the Myocardium after MI $1,809,234
University of California, San Diego Professor Yuan Chen Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects A Novel Approach to Eradicate Cancer Stem Cells $279,977
City of Hope, Beckman Research Institute Professor Yuan Chen Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects A Novel Approach to Eradicate Cancer Stem Cells $1,539,935
University of California, Berkeley Kevin E. Healy Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Human Cardiac Chip for Assessment of Proarrhythmic Risk $899,581
University of California, San Francisco Dr. Holger F Willenbring Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Preclinical development of AAV vector-mediated in vivo hepatic reprogramming of myofibroblasts as a therapy for liver fibrosis $1,638,389
Scaled Biolabs Inc. Dr Justin Cooper-White Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects A tool for rapid development of clinical-grade protocols for dopaminergic neuronal differentiation of Parkinson’s Disease patient-derived iPSCs $657,528
City of Hope, Beckman Research Institute Markus Müschen Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Lgr5-mediated self-renewal in B cell selection and leukemia-initiation $2,183,223
University of California, San Diego Professor Alysson R Muotri Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects A treatment for Zika virus infection and neuroprotection efficacy $1,924,524
Stanford University Dr. Matthew H Porteus Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Genome Editing to Correct Cystic Fibrosis Mutations in Airway Stem Cells $1,968,456
University of California, San Francisco Dr. Julie B Sneddon Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Designing a cellular niche for transplantation of human embryonic stem cell-derived beta cells $2,006,076
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. John P Chute Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Protein tyrosine phosphatase – sigma inhibitors for hematopoietic regeneration $2,115,735
University of California, San Diego Dan S Kaufman Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Targeted off-the-shelf immunotherapy to treat refractory cancers $1,936,936
Parkinson’s Institute Dr. Birgitt Schuele Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects CRISPR/dCas9 mutant targeting SNCA promoter for downregulation of alpha-synuclein expression as a novel therapeutic approach for Parkinson’s disease $1,288,415
Gladstone Institutes, J. David Dr. Deepak Srivastava Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Direct Cardiac Reprogramming for Regenerative Medicine $2,392,157
University of California, Irvine Leslie M Thompson Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects hNSC-mediated delivery of ApiCCT1 as a candidate therapeutic for Huntington’s disease $1,650,263
Stanford University Dr. Roel Nusse Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Preclinical development of human hepatocyte progenitor cells for cell therapy $1,651,211
University of California, San Francisco Dr. Tejal Ashwin Desai Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Thin Film Encapsulation Devices for Human Stem Cell derived Insulin Producing Cells $1,092,063
Stanford University Dr. Rosa Bacchetta Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects GENE EDITING FOR FOXP3 IN HUMAN HSC $984,228
California Institute of Technology Dr. David Baltimore PhD Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Immunotherapy for HIV infection using engineered hematopoietic stem/progenitor cells $1,569,193
Gladstone Institutes, J. David Dr. Deepak Srivastava Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Use of Human iPSC-derived Endothelial Cells for Calcific Aortic Valve Disease Therapeutics $2,400,048
Scripps Research Institute Dr. Jeanne F Loring Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Autologous cell therapy for Parkinson’s disease using iPSC-derived DA neurons $2,299,786
University of California, Davis Dr. David J Segal PhD Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects MSC delivery of an artificial transcription factor to the brain as a treatment for Angelman Syndrome $1,055,319
University of California, Berkeley Dr. David V. Schaffer Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Scalable, Defined Production of Oligodendrocyte Precursor Cells to Treat Neural Disease and Injury $1,627,099
Stanford University Professor Hiromitsu Nakauchi Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Novel Rejuvenated T Cell Immunotherapy for Lung Cancer $1,968,456
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. April Pyle Ph.D. Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects CRISPR/Cas9 nanoparticle enabled therapy for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy in muscle stem cells $2,150,400
University of California, San Diego Karl Karl J. Wahlin Inception – Discovery Stage Research Projects An IPSC cell based model of macular degeneration for drug discovery. $232,200
University of California, Los Angeles Alireza Moshaverinia Inception – Discovery Stage Research Projects Gingival mesenchymal stem cells as a novel treatment modality for periodontal tissue regeneration $194,483
Zenobia Therapeutics Vicki Nienaber Inception – Discovery Stage Research Projects A new phenotypic screening platform that identifies biologically-relevant targets and lead compounds for the treatment of Parkinson’s disease $112,500
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Dmitriy Sheyn Inception – Discovery Stage Research Projects IVD rejuvenation using iPSC-derived notochordal cells $241,992
Loma Linda University Dr. David J Baylink Inception – Discovery Stage Research Projects Bone Marrow Targeting of Hematopoietic Stem Cells Engineered to Overexpress 25-OH-VD3 1-α-hydroxylase for Acute Myeloid Leukemia Therapy $178,967
Palo Alto Veterans Institute for Research Dr. Ngan F Huang Inception – Discovery Stage Research Projects iPSC-Derived Smooth Muscle Progenitors for Treatment of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm $172,621
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