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.

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Institution Researcher name Grant Type Grant Title Award Value
University of California, San Diego Dr. Eric D. Adler MD Therapeutic Translational Research Projects Ex Vivo Modified Hematopoietic Stem Cells to Treat Danon Disease $5,180,389
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. Caroline Y. Kuo Therapeutic Translational Research Projects Hematopoietic Stem Cell Gene Editing for X-linked Agammaglobulinemia (XLA) $4,304,883
City of Hope, Beckman Research Institute Dr Michael A. Caligiuri Therapeutic Translational Research Projects Targeting multiple myeloma with BCMA-CAR NK cells expressing a GPRC5D-NKG2D bispecific antibody $6,036,001
University of California, Los Angeles Anthony J Aldave Therapeutic Translational Research Projects AAV Gene Therapy for Treating Congenital Hereditary Endothelial Dystrophy associated with Biallelic SLC4A11 Mutations $4,338,166
BrainXell Therapeutics Maria Daniela Cirnaru Therapeutic Translational Research Projects Development of Autologous Cell Replacement Therapy for Parkinson’s Disease: Path to Personalized Treatment $3,841,110
ImmunoVec Luke Riggan Therapeutic Translational Research Projects Hematopoietic Stem Cell Gene Therapy for Wiskott Aldrich Syndrome $3,999,899
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. Sophie X Deng Therapeutic Translational Research Projects Extracellular Vesicle-Based Therapy for Corneal Scars $5,779,276
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. Scott G Kitchen Therapeutic Translational Research Projects Hematopoietic Stem/Progenitor Cell-Based Chimeric Antigen Receptor Gene Therapy for HIV Infection $6,140,723
Rejuvenation Technologies, Inc. John Ramunas Therapeutic Translational Research Projects Telomerase mRNA for short telomere related pulmonary fibrosis $3,984,942
University of Southern California Dr. Rongfu Wang Therapeutic Translational Research Projects Novel T cell receptor-STEM T cell immunotherapy in lung cancer $5,689,540
Stanford University Walter Park Therapeutic Translational Research Projects Enhanced Autologous Pancreatic Islet Transplantation and Survival for Diabetes Mellitus Therapy $6,054,165
University of California, Irvine Jianhua Yu Therapeutic Translational Research Projects Specific Targeting Hypoxia Metastatic Breast Tumor with Allogeneic Off-the-Shelf Anti-EGFR CAR NK Cells Expressing an ODD domain of HIF-1α $4,769,410
University of California, Davis Dr. William J Murphy Therapeutic Translational Research Projects Overcoming resistance to standard CD19-targeted CAR T using a novel triple antigen targeted vector $3,869,061
University of California, San Diego Stephanie Cherqui Therapeutic Translational Research Projects CRISPR/Cas9-mediated gene editing of Hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells for Friedreich’s ataxia $4,846,579
University of Southern California Preet M Chaudhary Therapeutic Translational Research Projects Next generation affinity-tuned CAR for prostate cancer $5,805,144
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. Donald B. Kohn Therapeutic Translational Research Projects Autologous MPO Knock-Out Hematopoietic Stem and Progenitor Cells for Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension $4,751,297
University of California, Irvine Dr. Aileen J Anderson Therapeutic Translational Research Projects A human neural stem cell therapeutic candidate for the treatment of chronic cervical spinal cord injury $4,950,024
MyoGene Bio LLC Dr Courtney Young Therapeutic Translational Research Projects Development of MyoDys45-55, a gene editing therapy for Duchenne muscular dystrophy $3,400,000
Immusoft Corporation Dr Robert Hayes Therapeutic Translational Research Projects MPS II: Plasma cell delivery of iduronate sulfatase $3,994,676
ImmunoVec Luke Riggan Therapeutic Translational Research Projects Hematopoietic Stem Cell Gene Therapy for IPEX Syndrome $3,551,332
Palo Alto Veterans Institute for Research Irene Lorenzo Llorente Therapeutic Translational Research Projects Clinical Translation of Allogenic Regenerative Cell Therapy for White Matter Stroke and Vascular Dementia $5,149,913
University of California, Los Angeles Cristina Puig Saus Therapeutic Translational Research Projects CAR-Tnm cell therapy for melanoma targeting TYRP-1 $5,904,462
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. Lili Yang Therapeutic Translational Research Projects HSC-Engineered Off-The-Shelf CAR-iNKT Cell Therapy for Multiple Myeloma $5,281,199
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute Dr. Evan Y. Snyder Therapeutic Translational Research Projects Human Neural Stem Cells (hNSCs) for neuroprotection in perinatal hypoxic-ischemic brain injury (HII)-Pre-IND-enabling Studies $4,963,684
University of California, Irvine Dr. Brian J. Cummings Therapeutic Translational Research Projects An optimized human neural stem cell line (hNSC) for the treatment of traumatic brain injury (TBI) $4,804,737
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. Caroline Y. Kuo Therapeutic Translational Research Projects Ex Vivo Gene Editing of Human Hematopoietic Stem Cells for the Treatment of X-Linked Hyper-IgM Syndrome $4,896,628
Stanford University Dr. Theodore Leng Therapeutic Translational Research Projects NeuBright, a purified allogeneic cell therapy product for treatment of Dry Age-related Macular Degeneration $4,235,758
Stanford University Dr. Bertha Chen Therapeutic Translational Research Projects Autologous iPSC-derived smooth muscle cell therapy for treatment of urinary incontinence $5,977,155
Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles Dr. Mark R Frey Therapeutic Translational Research Projects ASCENT- Advanced Stem Cell Enteric Neuropathy Therapy $7,077,352
The Regents of the University of California on behalf of its Riverside Campus Dr. Huinan Hannah Liu SPARK Summer Training and Research Inspiration for Diverse Pipeline Engagement toward Advancing Stem Cell Treatment (STRIDE) $507,560
University of California, San Francisco Katherine Nielsen SPARK Stem Cell Summer Research Experiences $508,750
Stanford University Paul J. Utz SPARK Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine- High School Summer Research Internship $490,458
University of California, Davis Dr. Fernando A Fierro PhD SPARK Internship at a Cutting Edge CIRM-funded Stem Cell Research Facility $499,573
Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science Dolores Caffey-Fleming SPARK Exposing Students to Regenerative Medicine (ExStRM) $482,730
Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles Dr. Mark R Frey SPARK Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Summer Internships for High School Students from Under-Served Communities $508,750
University of California, San Diego James Murphy SPARK Summer Program To Accelerate Regenerative Medicine Knowledge (SPARK) $488,621
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute Sanjeev Ranade SPARK Stem Cells & STEM Education – a Summer Internship Program for California High School Students $509,000
City of Hope, Beckman Research Institute Dr. David Kong Ann SPARK Train, Educate, and Accelerate Mastery of Stem cell research (TEAMS) program $505,933
UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland Ellen B Fung SPARK Supporting Underrepresented STudents Adapting to Change: Summer Program to Accelerate Regenerative Medicine Knowledge (SUSTAIN a SPARK) $254,964
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Wafa Tawackoli SPARK Mentored High School Summer Research Program $508,750
Berkeley City College Dr. Barbara Des Rochers Bridges CIRM Bridges to Stem Cell Research and Therapy $3,224,918
Cal State Univ, Fullerton Dr. Nilay V Patel Bridges Bridges to Stem Cell Research and Therapy: A Talent Development Program for Training Diverse Undergraduates for Careers in Regenerative Medicine $3,530,873
City College Of San Francisco Dr. Carin Zimmerman Bridges Building Career Pathways into Stem Cell Research and Therapy Development $3,195,638
Cal Poly Corporation, an Auxiliary of California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo Trevor Cardinal Bridges Training Masters Students to Advance the Regenerative Medicine Field $3,931,800
Cal State Univ, San Bernadino Dr. Nicole Bournias-Vardiabasis Bridges Stem Cell Scholars: a workforce development pipeline, educating, training and engaging students from basic research to clinical translation. $4,327,800
The University Corporation at California State University, Northridge Dr. Cindy S Malone Bridges CSUN CIRM Bridges3.0 Stem Cell Research & Therapy Training Program $4,327,057
California State University, Channel Islands Dr. Nitika S Parmar Bridges CIRM Graduate Student Training in Stem Cell Sciences in the Stem Cell Technology and Lab Management Emphasis of the MS Biotechnology Program $4,270,367
San Francisco State University Dr. Lily Chen Bridges CIRM Bridges Science Master’s Program $4,049,650
Cal State Univ, Sacramento Kimberly A Mulligan Bridges Strengthening the Pipeline of Master’s-level Scientific and Laboratory Personnel in Stem Cell Research $2,828,738
SJSU Research Foundation Bree Grillo – Hill Bridges Stem Cell Internships in Laboratory-based Learning ( SCILL) continue to expand the scientific workforce for stem cells research and therapies . $4,327,800

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