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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.

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Institution Researcher name Grant Type Grant Title Award Value
University of California, San Diego Dr. Alon Goren Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Establishment of a novel approach to systematically study the dynamic organization of protein complexes in stem cells $1,515,601
University of California, Los Angeles UCLA Gay M Crooks Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Engineering pluripotent stem cells for universally available, off-the-shelf T cell therapies $1,352,753
University of California, San Francisco Yin Shen PhD Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Understanding Chemotherapy-Induced Peripheral Neuropathy Mechanisms using CRISPRi and Chemical Screens in Human iPSC-Derived Sensory Neurons $1,621,913
University of California, Santa Cruz Dr. Camilla Forsberg Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Determining how age-specific heterogeneity of human hematopoietic stem cells and megakaryocyte progenitors contribute to thrombotic disease upon aging $1,336,800
University of California, San Francisco Dr. Elizabeth Crouch Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Harnessing vascular stem cells to grow and protect the human brain $1,391,998
Gladstone Institutes, J. David Julia Kaye Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Developing a Human Model of Sporadic ALS Using Machine Learning and Robotic Microscopy $1,406,622
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Dmitriy Sheyn Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects The role of WNT and BMP signaling pathways in iPSC to iTenocyte step-wise differentiation for tendon repair $1,516,563
Stanford University Dr. Marius Wernig MD, PhD Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Developing a microglia replacement therapy $1,378,365
Greenstone Biosciences, Inc. Dr. Mukhtar Ahmed Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Drug Discovery for Dilated Cardiomyopathy using Patient-Derived Human iPSCs $1,350,000
University of California, San Diego Heidi Cook-Andersen Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Towards a trophectoderm stem-cell model representing human blastocysts of the highest implantation potential $1,584,000
University of California, San Diego Dr. Alexis Komor Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Development of a stem-cell based approach to interpret global effects of genetic variants contributing to neurodevelopmental disease risk $1,518,982
University of California, Berkeley Dr. Michael P. Rapé Dr. Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Control of OCT4 abundance and function in human stem cells $1,234,023
University of California, San Francisco Dr. Robert Blelloch MD, PHD. Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Development of universal off-the-shelf iPSC derived dendritic cells for use as patient specific anti-tumor vaccine $1,391,999
University of California, San Francisco Harold A. Chapman Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Modulation of human alveolar stem cells to promote lung regeneration and avoid pulmonary fibrosis $1,626,001
University of California, San Diego Francesca Soncin Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Drivers of trophoblast stem/progenitor cell identity in human placenta $993,881
University of California, Los Angeles Dr Melissa Jan Spencer Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Engineering AAV capsids for transduction of neural and muscle stem cells $999,999
University of California, San Francisco Mark C. Walters M.D. Cure Sickle Cell Initiative Clinical Trial Stage Projects Transplantation of CRISPR-CAS9 Corrected Hematopoietic Stem Cells (CRISPR_SCD001) in Patients with Severe Sickle Cell Disease $8,389,407
Boston Children’s Hospital David Williams Cure Sickle Cell Initiative Clinical Trial Stage Projects Phase 2 Study of Hematopoietic Stem Cell Gene Transfer Inducing Fetal Hemoglobin in Sickle Cell Disease $8,333,581
University of California, Irvine Daniela A. Bota Alpha Stem Cell Clinics Network Expansion A hub and spoke community model to equitably deliver regenerative medicine therapies to diverse populations across four California counties $8,000,000
University of Southern California Thomas Buchanan Alpha Stem Cell Clinics Network Expansion Alpha Clinic Network Expansion for Cell and Gene Therapies $7,999,983
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. Noah Carvajal Federman Alpha Stem Cell Clinics Network Expansion Expansion of the Alpha Stem Cell and Gene Therapy Clinic at UCLA $8,000,000
University of California, San Diego Catriona Jamieson Alpha Stem Cell Clinics Network Expansion UC San Diego Health CIRM Alpha Stem Cell Clinic $8,000,000
University of California, Davis Dr Mehrdad Abedi Alpha Stem Cell Clinics Network Expansion Alpha Stem Cell Clinic for Northern and Central California $7,999,997
City of Hope, Beckman Research Institute Dr. Leo D Wang Alpha Stem Cell Clinics Network Expansion The City of Hope Alpha Clinic: A roadmap for equitable and inclusive access to regenerative medicine therapies for all Californians $8,000,000
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Dr. Michael I Lewis Alpha Stem Cell Clinics Network Expansion A comprehensive stem cell and gene therapy clinic to advance new therapies for a diverse patient population in California $7,957,966
University of California, San Francisco Mark C. Walters M.D. Alpha Stem Cell Clinics Network Expansion University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Alpha Stem Cell Clinic (ASCC) $7,994,347
Stanford University Dr. Matthew H Porteus Alpha Stem Cell Clinics Network Expansion The Stanford Alpha Stem Cell Clinic $6,920,810
Generation STEAM Silvana DelPiccolo Conference – Manage The SPARK Annual Meeting Manage the 2025 Annual SPARK Conference $114,000
Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles Dr Biraj Mahato Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Chemically engineered photoreceptors for vision restoration in retinal degeneration associated blindness. $1,711,000
University of California, Irvine Dr. Aileen J Anderson Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Therapeutic targeting of Glioblastoma Stem Cell survival and self-renewal signaling $2,250,144
University of California, San Francisco Prof. Claire Clelland Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Developing a universal CRISPR gene therapy approach to treat C9orf72 ALS $2,740,592
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. Koki Morizono Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects B cell receptor-mediated lentiviral expression of anti-HIV antibody $2,751,504
University of California, San Diego Dr. Neil Carson Chi Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Modulating cardiac myosin heavy chain isoform expression for treating cardiomyopathies $2,772,000
City of Hope, Beckman Research Institute Dr. Christine E. Brown Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Development of a Trifunctional Self-Renewing Memory CAR T Cell Therapy to Overcome the Heterogeneity and Suppressive Microenvironment of Glioblastoma $2,700,810
University of California, San Francisco Faranak Fattahi Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Drug discovery for Charcot Marie Tooth Disease using hPSC-derived Schwann cells $2,471,664
University of California, San Francisco Dr. Qizhi Tang PhD Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Genome editing of human Tregs to enable combinational tolerogenic therapy with T cell-targeted biologics for T1D $2,485,549
Palo Alto Veterans Institute for Research Dr Jian Luo Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Human induced pluripotent stem cells-derived glial enriched progenitors for the treatment of mild traumatic brain injury $2,255,189
Palo Alto Veterans Institute for Research Irene Lorenzo Llorente Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Inhibitory interneurons derived from human induced pluripotent stem cells to treat stroke $2,140,122
University of California, San Francisco Faranak Fattahi Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Drug discovery for gastrointestinal motility disorders using hPSC-derived enteric ganglioids $1,954,367
Savanna Biotherapeutics, Inc. Dr. Sunil Gandhi Ph.D Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Gene-corrected human microglia for the treatment of adult onset leukoencephalopathy with axonal spheroids and pigmented glia (ALSP) $1,417,948
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Dr. Ritchie Ho Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects C9orf72 repeat expansion-tuned allelic suppression by CRISPRi as an ALS therapy $2,274,768
University of Southern California Dr. Justin K Ichida Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Development of a VAV2 antisense oligonucleotide (ASO) treatment for ALS $2,072,560
University of California, Davis Ricardo Anibal Maselli MD Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Treatment of Myasthenic Syndrome due to Choline Acetyltransferase Deficiency Using AAV9-mediated Gene Therapy $1,500,000
Adverum Biotechnologies Cameron Keast Baker Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Development of an Optogenetic Vision Restoration Gene Therapy Using an Engineered Form of Melanopsin $1,150,820
University of California, San Francisco Michael Wilson Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects A First-in-Class Treatment for Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy Via Multimodal Immune System Engineering $2,182,396
Stanford University Dr. Robert Negrin MD Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Orthogonal IL2 Receptor Transduced Regulatory T Cells for Clinical Application $1,920,652
Stanford University Dr. Michael F Clarke Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Developing a breast cancer stem cell drug $2,053,727
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Dr. Ke Liao Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects RNA-based therapeutics to augment regulatory T cells: a novel approach to treat myocarditis $2,264,509
University of Southern California Dr Linda Sher M.D. Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Assessing the Functional, Immunologic and Microbiologic Characteristics of Human Livers Created in Chimeric Pigs $2,736,590
University of California, Irvine Jianhua Yu Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Reprogramming Somatic Cells into iPSCs Engineered with an Anti-PSCA CAR to Develop Allogeneic Off-the-Shelf Cell Therapy to Treat Pancreatic Cancer $1,509,000
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