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, Davis Alyssa Panitch PhD Inception – Discovery Stage Research Projects Development of treatments to improve healing of ischemic wounds $235,099
Stanford University Guillem Pratx Inception – Discovery Stage Research Projects Novel metabolic labeling method for tracking stem cells to irradiated salivary glands using PET $229,227
University of California, San Francisco Semil P Choksi Inception – Discovery Stage Research Projects Generation of human airway stem cells by direct transcriptional reprogramming for disease modeling and regeneration $238,408
University of California, Irvine Janet E Baulch Inception – Discovery Stage Research Projects An exosome-based translational strategy to mitigate Alzheimer’s disease neuropathology $157,650
University of California, San Diego Tannishtha Reya Inception – Discovery Stage Research Projects Reprogramming human stem cells for blood cell generation $210,060
Stanford University Professor Helen M. Blau PhD Inception – Discovery Stage Research Projects Prodrug innovation to target muscle stem cells and enhance muscle regeneration $235,834
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute Dr Alessandra Sacco Inception – Discovery Stage Research Projects Generation of expandable, self-renewing muscle stem cells for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy $252,000
University of California, San Francisco Sonja Schrepfer Inception – Discovery Stage Research Projects Hypo-immunogenic cardiac patches for myocardial regeneration $235,818
University of Southern California Biju B. Thomas Inception – Discovery Stage Research Projects A Novel Tissue Engineering Technique to Repair Degenerated Retina $215,133
Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles Dr. Senta Georgia Inception – Discovery Stage Research Projects Developing a personalized approach to beta cell replacement for patients with a genetic form of diabetes $179,995
Vitalant Research Institute Dr. Marcus Oliver Muench Inception – Discovery Stage Research Projects Modulating Liver Sinusoidal Endothelial Cell Permeability to Enhance Engraftment of Endothelial Cell Progenitors for the Treatment of Hemophilia A $180,000
Stanford University Jeffrey L Goldberg Inception – Discovery Stage Research Projects Embryonic Stem Cells for Corneal Endothelial Degeneration $235,836
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. Owen N Witte M.D. Inception – Discovery Stage Research Projects Identification of stem cell surface markers as potential therapeutic targets for advanced prostate cancer $209,160
University of California, San Diego Professor Alysson R Muotri Inception – Discovery Stage Research Projects Reverse transcriptase inhibitors as a novel therapeutic approach for neurological autoimmune disorders $210,060
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. April Pyle Ph.D. Inception – Discovery Stage Research Projects Novel Platforms to Enhance In Vivo Delivery of Skeletal Muscle Progenitor Cells from Human Pluripotent Stem Cells $230,400
University of California, Los Angeles Bennett G Novitch Inception – Discovery Stage Research Projects Organoid Modeling of Human Cortical Microcircuits $208,916
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Professor Clive Niels Svendsen Inception – Discovery Stage Research Projects Blood Brain Barrier (BBB)-on-Chip: Development and validation of a novel iPS-based microfluidic model of the human BBB $241,992
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
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