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.

See our complete portfolio of awards below.

All CIRM Grants

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Institution Researcher name Grant Type Grant Title Award Value
iPierian, Inc. Dr. John Dimos Early Translational II New Drug Discovery for SMA using Patient-derived Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells $2,410,000
University of California, Los Angeles Prof. Bruno Peault Early Translational II Harnessing native fat-residing stem cells for bone regeneration $5,359,076
Scripps Research Institute Peter G. Schultz Early Translational II Cartilage Regeneration by the Chondrogenic Small Molecule PRO1 during Osteoarthritis $6,047,249
University of California, San Diego Professor Alysson R Muotri Early Translational II Developing a drug-screening system for Autism Spectrum Disorders using human neurons $1,376,198
University of California, Irvine Dr. Leslie M Thompson Early Translational II A hESc-based Development Candidate for Huntington’s Disease $3,955,038
University of California, San Diego Dr. Catriona Jamieson Early Translational II Preclinical development of a pan Bcl2 inhibitor for cancer stem cell directed therapy $3,103,041
Gladstone Institutes, J. David Dr. Todd C. McDevitt Research Leadership Engineering microscale tissue constructs from human pluripotent stem cells $5,849,100
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. John P Chute Research Leadership Niche-Focused Research: Discovery & Development of Hematopoietic Regenerative Factors $4,645,297
University of California, Berkeley Dr. Xavier Darzacq Research Leadership Single Molecule Biophysics and Biology of Cellular Identity $4,175,924
University of California, San Francisco Redacted Research Leadership Recapitulating development of the musculoskeletal axis in vitro with pluripotent cells $0
University of California, San Diego Dr. Eric T. Ahrens Research Leadership Molecular Imaging for Stem Cell Science and Clinical Application $5,680,474
University of California, Santa Cruz Professor Richard Gregory Research Leadership MicroRNA Regulation in Stem Cells, Development, and Disease $0
Stanford University Professor Hiromitsu Nakauchi Research Leadership Generation of functional cells and organs from iPSCs $5,426,135
Gladstone Institutes, J. David Dr. Kevin Kit Parker PhD Research Leadership Engineering Cardiac Tissue for Regeneration and Drug Development $0
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Dr. Barry R Stripp Research Leadership Epithelial progenitors and the stromal niche as therapeutic targets in lung disease $4,841,830
Parkinson’s Institute Dennis Steindler Research Leadership Stem Cell Pathologies in Parkinson’s disease as a key to Regenerative Strategies $0
University of Southern California Dr. Andrew McMahon Research Leadership Repair and regeneration of the nephron $5,672,206
University of California, Berkeley Dr. Zhigang He Research Leadership Developing a regeneration-based functional restoration treatment for spinal cord injury $0
University of California, Santa Barbara Professor Peter J Coffey Research Leadership Development of Cellular Therapies for Retinal Disease $4,690,963
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute Robert Wechsler-Reya Research Leadership The role of neural stem cells in cerebellar development, regeneration and tumorigenesis $5,226,049
Mohammad Pashmforoush Dr. Mohammad Pashmforoush New Faculty I Medical School Loan Repayment Program $27,949
Salk Institute for Biological Studies Dr. Dana Leanne Jones New Faculty I Characterization of mechanisms regulating de-differentiation and the re-acquisition of stem cell identity $2,134,100
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. Dana Leanne Jones New Faculty I Characterization of mechanisms regulating de-differentiation and the re-acquisition of stem cell identity $382,773
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. Siavash Kurdistani New Faculty I Epigenetics in cancer stem cell initiation and clinical outcome prediction $3,063,450
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Professor Clive Niels Svendsen Disease Team Therapy Planning I Stem Cells Secreting GDNF for the Treatment of ALS $63,487
University of California, San Diego Armin Blesch Progression Award – Discovery Stage Research Projects Simplification of Excipient Solution for Implanting Candidate Human H9-scNSC Cell Line for Spinal Cord Injury $180,000
Stanford University Dr. Helen M Blau Progression Award – Discovery Stage Research Projects Stimulating endogenous muscle stem cells to counter muscle wasting $237,060
University of California, Irvine Dr. Brian J. Cummings Progression Award – Discovery Stage Research Projects Human neural stem cell (hNSC) derived exosomes vs CSC14 hNSCs for the treatment of traumatic brain injury (TBI) $202,667
University of California, Berkeley Kevin E. Healy Progression Award – Discovery Stage Research Projects Safety “Clinical Trial” of the Cardiac Liability of COVID19 Polytherapy $224,500
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. Caroline Y. Kuo Progression Award – Discovery Stage Research Projects Evaluation of Gene Therapy Approaches for Autosomal Recessive Hyper IgE Syndrome Due to Mutations in DOCK8 $234,000
Neurona Therapeutics Dr. Cory R Nicholas Progression Award – Discovery Stage Research Projects Global gene expression profiling of single inhibitory neurons derived from human stem cells $202,500
Stanford University Professor Hiromitsu Nakauchi Progression Award – Discovery Stage Research Projects Using metabolic pausing for maintaining stable and high-quality pluripotent stem cells $208,422
Aspen Neuroscience Dr. Andres Bratt-Leal Progression Award – Discovery Stage Research Projects Autologous therapy for Parkinson’s disease: single cell RNAseq for in depth characterization of transplanted cells $177,579