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
Mahzi Therapeutics Dr. Yael Weiss Late Stage Preclinical Projects Development of a Gene Therapy for the Treatment of WWOX related epileptic encephalopathy (WOREE) $4,000,000
University of California, Davis Mehrdad Abedi Late Stage Preclinical Projects Superior forward-oriented b-globin vector for treating Sickle Cell Disease $4,598,398
University of Southern California Mark Salman Humayun Late Stage Preclinical Projects IND-enabling program for PRPE-SF, the secretome from polarized stem cell-derived RPE cells, for the treatment of dry-age related macular degeneration $5,993,562
Stanford University Dr. Matthew H Porteus Late Stage Preclinical Projects Autologous Gene Corrected Sinus Basal Cells to Treat Serious Cystic Fibrosis Sinus Disease $6,000,000
University of California, Irvine Kyriacos A Athanasiou Late Stage Preclinical Projects Treatment of the TMJ disc complex $6,000,000
Aspera Biomedicines, Inc Catriona Jamieson Late Stage Preclinical Projects Cancer Stem Cell Interception with Rebecsinib: A First-in-Class ADAR1 Inhibitor $3,200,000
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. Jerome A. Zack Ph.D. Late Stage Preclinical Projects Clinical Translation of Autologous Regenerative Pluripotent Stem Cell Therapy for Blindness $6,000,000
Kenai Therapeutics Howard J Federoff Late Stage Preclinical Projects Allogeneic iPSC derived Dopaminergic Drug Product for Parkinson’s disease $4,000,000
Rampart Bioscience Jeffrey Bartlett Late Stage Preclinical Projects Ex vivo Engineering of Autologous Hematopoietic Stem Cells for the Treatment of Hypophosphatasia $3,841,803
Nammi Therapeutics, Inc. Dr. David R Stover Late Stage Preclinical Projects IND-Enabling activities for the masked immunocytokine, QXL138AM $3,999,113
Calidi Biotherapeutics, Inc. 8587949607 Boris Minev Late Stage Preclinical Projects Allogeneic mesenchymal stem cells loaded with oncolytic virus for cancer treatment $3,111,467
Ossium Health, Inc. Dr. Brian Johnstone Late Stage Preclinical Projects Development of OSSM-007, cryopreserved interferon-gamma primed allogeneic MSCs, for treatment of steroid refractory acute graft versus host disease $3,457,858
University of California, Davis Dr. Joseph S Anderson Late Stage Preclinical Projects Hematopoetic stem cell gene therapy for the treatment of Tay-Sachs disease $3,998,253
Stanford University Natalia Gomez-Ospina Late Stage Preclinical Projects Genome Editing of Autologous Hematopoietic Stem Cells to Treat Severe Mucopolysaccharidosis type 1 (Hurler Syndrome) $4,900,977
University of California, San Francisco Dr. Karin Lindgren Gaensler Late Stage Preclinical Projects Development of TriLeukeVax, an Engineered Autologous Leukemia Vaccine for Stimulating Cytolytic Immune Responses to Residual Leukemic Stem Cells $6,000,000
ImmunoVec Dr. Ryan L. Wong Late Stage Preclinical Projects Hematopoietic Stem Cell Gene Therapy for XCGD $3,999,959
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. Antoni Ribas MD/PhD Late Stage Preclinical Projects Skin regeneration and wound healing with a topical BRAF inhibitor $5,005,126
University of Southern California Dr. Denis A Evseenko Dr. Late Stage Preclinical Projects Plurocart: a novel stem cell-based implant for articular cartilage restoration $5,949,782
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