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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.

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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Neurona Therapeutics Dr. Cory R Nicholas Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Development of a Cellular Therapeutic for Treatment of Epilepsy $1,616,536

Neurona Therapeutics Dr. Cory R Nicholas Therapeutic Translational Research Projects Development of a universal allogeneic human interneuron cell therapy candidate for the treatment of drug resistant focal epilepsy. $3,828,714

Neurona Therapeutics Dr. Cory R Nicholas Therapeutic Translational Research Projects Development of a human stem cell-derived inhibitory neuron therapeutic for the treatment of chronic focal epilepsy $4,848,505

Neurona Therapeutics Dr. Cory R Nicholas Clinical Trial Stage Projects Inhibitory Interneuron Cell Therapy (NRTX-1001) for the Treatment of Drug-resistant Bilateral Temporal Lobe Epilepsy $13,999,983

Neurona Therapeutics Dr. Cory R Nicholas Clinical Trial Stage Projects Phase 1/2 Study of NRTX-1001 Neural Cell Therapy in Subjects with Drug-Resistant Unilateral Mesial Temporal Lobe Epilepsy $7,999,999

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

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