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 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 |
| Gladstone Institutes, J. David |
Dr. Robert W Mahley |
Research Training II |
Gladstone CIRM Scholars Program |
$4,869,300 |
| Buck Institute for Age Research |
Dr. Xianmin Zeng |
Research Training II |
CIRM Research Training Program in Stem Cells and Aging |
$1,472,416 |
| University of California, Davis |
Dr. Frederick J Meyers MD |
Research Training II |
UC Davis Stem Cell Training Program |
$4,838,291 |
| University of California, Santa Barbara |
Dr. Dennis O. Clegg |
Research Training II |
Training Program in Stem Cell Biology and Engineering |
$2,448,823 |
| University of California, San Francisco |
Dr. Susan J Fisher PhD |
Research Training II |
Training Program in Stem Cell Research at UCSF |
$7,814,027 |
| University of California, Berkeley |
Dr. Ellen A. Robey |
Research Training II |
Interdisciplinary Training in Stem Cell Biology, Engineering and Medicine |
$6,888,557 |
| University of Southern California |
Dr. Robert E Maxson |
Research Training II |
CIRM Stem Cell Biology Training Program |
$5,827,817 |
| Salk Institute for Biological Studies |
Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte |
Research Training II |
Training in the Biology of Human Embryonic Stem Cells and Emerging Technologies II |
$2,886,221 |
| University of California, Santa Cruz |
Dr. David Haussler |
Research Training II |
UCSC CIRM Training Program in Systems Biology of Stem cells |
$4,397,002 |
| University of California, Irvine |
Dr. Peter John Donovan Dr. |
Research Training II |
UCI-CIRM Research Training Program II |
$6,067,550 |
| City of Hope, Beckman Research Institute |
Dr. Michael E. Barish Ph, D. |
Research Training II |
City of Hope Research Training Program in Stem Cell Biology |
$2,197,782 |
| Geron Corporation |
Dr. Jane Stephanie Lebkowski Dr. |
Targeted Clinical Development |
Evaluation of Safety and Preliminary Efficacy of Escalating Doses of GRNOPC1 in Subacute Spinal Cord Injury |
$0 |
| City of Hope, Beckman Research Institute |
Dr. Jiing-Kuan Yee Ph.D. |
Basic Biology III |
Use of human iPS cells to study spinal muscular atrophy |
$1,268,868 |
| University of California, Los Angeles |
Dr. Yi Eve Sun |
Basic Biology III |
Studying neurotransmission of normal and diseased human ES cell-derived neurons in vivo |
$1,382,400 |
| University of California, San Diego |
Dr. Deborah H Spector Dr. |
Basic Biology III |
Viral-host interactions affecting neural differentiation of human progenitors |
$1,372,660 |
| Stanford University |
Dr. Aaron J Hsueh |
Basic Biology III |
Correlated time-lapse imaging and single cell molecular analysis of human embryo development |
$1,259,733 |
| University of California, Los Angeles |
Dr. Kathrin Plath Dr. |
Basic Biology III |
Discovery of mechanisms that control epigenetic states in human reprogramming and pluripotent cells |
$1,364,598 |
| University of California, San Diego |
Dr. David A. Cheresh |
Basic Biology III |
Molecular basis of human ES cell neurovascular differentiation and co-patterning |
$1,359,996 |
| University of California, San Diego |
Dr. Anirvan Ghosh Dr. |
Basic Biology III |
Investigation of synaptic defects in autism using patient-derived induced pluripotent stem cells |
$843,597 |
| University of California, San Diego |
Dr. Kun Zhang |
Basic Biology III |
Functional characterization of mutational load in nuclear reprogramming and differentiation |
$1,295,318 |
| University of California, San Francisco |
Jason Harris Pomerantz |
Basic Biology III |
Phenotypic Analysis of Human ES Cell-Derived Muscle Stem Cells |
$1,381,296 |
| Scripps Research Institute |
Dr. Joel M Gottesfeld |
Basic Biology III |
Triplet Repeat Instability in Human iPSCs |
$1,705,494 |
| University of California, San Diego |
Gene Wei-Ming Yeo |
Basic Biology III |
Neural and general splicing factors control self-renewal, neural survival and differentiation |
$1,287,619 |
| Gladstone Institutes, J. David |
Dr. Deepak Srivastava |
Basic Biology III |
Mechanisms of Direct Cardiac Reprogramming |
$1,572,380 |
| Stanford University |
Sean M. Wu |
Basic Biology III |
Elucidating Molecular Basis of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy with Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells |
$1,260,537 |
| University of California, Los Angeles |
Dr. Ali Nsair MD |
Basic Biology III |
Characterization and Engineering of the Cardiac Stem Cell Niche |
$1,127,741 |
| Stanford University |
Dr. Michael F Clarke |
Basic Biology III |
USP16 controls stem cell number: implications for Down Syndrome |
$1,263,826 |
| University of California, San Francisco |
Dr. John P Murnane Dr. |
Basic Biology III |
Genomic instability during culturing of human embryonic stem cells |
$1,070,919 |
| University of California, San Diego |
Dr. Benhai Zheng Dr. |
Basic Biology III |
Generation and characterization of corticospinal neurons from human embryonic stem cells |
$1,355,063 |
| Stanford University |
Dr. Joanna Wysocka PhD |
Basic Biology III |
Enhancer-mediated gene regulation during early human embryonic development |
$1,420,618 |
| University of California, San Diego |
Dr. Farah Sheikh Dr. |
Basic Biology III |
Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Human Cardiac Cell Junction Maturation and Disease Using Human iPSC |
$1,341,955 |
| University of California, Los Angeles |
Dr. William Lowry Dr. |
Basic Biology III |
Molecular determinants of accurate differentiation from human pluripotent stem cells |
$677,115 |
| University of California, Los Angeles |
Dr. Shuo Lin Dr. |
Basic Biology III |
Etsrp/ER71 mediated stem cell differentiation into vascular lineage |
$1,378,781 |
| Parkinson’s Institute |
R. Jeremy Nichols |
Basic Biology III |
Understanding the role of LRRK2 in iPSC cell models of Parkinson’s Disease |
$1,482,822 |
| Scripps Research Institute |
Dr. Kristin K Baldwin Dr. |
Basic Biology III |
Identifying sources of mutation in human induced pluripotent stem cells by whole genome sequencing |
$1,705,500 |
| University of California, Berkeley |
Dr. Michael P. Rapé Dr. |
Basic Biology III |
Ubiquitin-dependent control of hESC self-renewal and expansion |
$1,224,805 |
| University of California, Los Angeles |
UCLA Gay M Crooks |
Basic Biology III |
Forming the Hematopoietic Niche from Human Pluripotent Stem Cells |
$1,252,857 |
| University of California, San Diego |
Dr. Charles C. King Dr. |
Basic Biology III |
Biological relevance of microRNAs in hESC differentiation to endocrine pancreas |
$1,313,649 |
| University of California, Berkeley |
Dr. Song Li |
Basic Biology III |
Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells for Tissue Regeneration |
$1,209,148 |
| University of California, San Diego |
Karl H. Willert |
Tools and Technologies II |
Homologous recombination in human pluripotent stem cells using adeno-associated virus. |
$1,659,043 |
| Stanford University |
Dr. Marius Wernig MD, PhD |
Tools and Technologies II |
Cellular tools to study brain diseases affecting synaptic transmission |
$1,664,382 |
| Stanford University |
Professor Irving L Weissman MD |
Tools and Technologies II |
Antibody tools to deplete or isolate teratogenic, cardiac, and blood stem cells from hESCs |
$1,463,814 |
| TriFoil Imaging, Inc. |
Dr. Joann Zhang |
Tools and Technologies II |
Tri-resolution Visualization System for Stem Cells and Tissue Regeneration Monitoring |
$1,456,989 |
| Cedars-Sinai Medical Center |
Professor Clive Niels Svendsen |
Tools and Technologies II |
Use of iPS cells (iPSCs) to develop novels tools for the treatment of spinal muscular atrophy. |
$1,933,022 |
| University of California, Berkeley |
Dr. David V. Schaffer |
Tools and Technologies II |
Engineering Defined and Scaleable Systems for Dopaminergic Neuron Differentiation of hPSCs |
$1,340,816 |
