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.
All CIRM Grants
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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 |