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
Calibr Peter G. Schultz Early Translational II Cartilage Regeneration by the Chondrogenic Small Molecule PRO1 during Osteoarthritis $6,047,249
University of California, San Diego Professor Alysson R Muotri Early Translational II Developing a drug-screening system for Autism Spectrum Disorders using human neurons $1,376,198
University of California, Irvine Dr. LESLIE M Thompson Early Translational II A hESc-based Development Candidate for Huntington’s Disease $3,955,038
University of California, San Diego Dr. Catriona Jamieson Early Translational II Preclinical development of a pan Bcl2 inhibitor for cancer stem cell directed therapy $3,103,041
Gladstone Institutes, J. David Dr. Todd C. McDevitt Research Leadership Engineering microscale tissue constructs from human pluripotent stem cells $5,849,100
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. John P Chute Research Leadership Niche-Focused Research: Discovery & Development of Hematopoietic Regenerative Factors $4,645,297
University of California, Berkeley Dr. Xavier Darzacq Research Leadership Single Molecule Biophysics and Biology of Cellular Identity $4,175,924
University of California, San Francisco Redacted Research Leadership Recapitulating development of the musculoskeletal axis in vitro with pluripotent cells $0
University of California, San Diego Dr. Eric T. Ahrens Research Leadership Molecular Imaging for Stem Cell Science and Clinical Application $5,680,474
University of California, Santa Cruz Professor Richard Gregory Research Leadership MicroRNA Regulation in Stem Cells, Development, and Disease $0
Stanford University Professor Hiromitsu Nakauchi Research Leadership Generation of functional cells and organs from iPSCs $5,426,135
Gladstone Institutes, J. David Dr. Kevin Kit Parker PhD Research Leadership Engineering Cardiac Tissue for Regeneration and Drug Development $0
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Dr. Barry R Stripp Research Leadership Epithelial progenitors and the stromal niche as therapeutic targets in lung disease $4,841,830
Parkinson’s Institute Dennis Steindler Research Leadership Stem Cell Pathologies in Parkinson’s disease as a key to Regenerative Strategies $0
University of Southern California Dr. Andrew McMahon Research Leadership Repair and regeneration of the nephron $5,672,206
University of California, Berkeley Dr. Zhigang He Research Leadership Developing a regeneration-based functional restoration treatment for spinal cord injury $0
University of California, Santa Barbara Professor Peter J Coffey Research Leadership Development of Cellular Therapies for Retinal Disease $4,690,963
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute Robert Wechsler-Reya Research Leadership The role of neural stem cells in cerebellar development, regeneration and tumorigenesis $5,226,049
Mohammad Pashmforoush Dr. Mohammad Pashmforoush New Faculty I Medical School Loan Repayment Program $27,949
Salk Institute for Biological Studies Dr. Dana Leanne Jones New Faculty I Characterization of mechanisms regulating de-differentiation and the re-acquisition of stem cell identity $2,134,100
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. Dana Leanne Jones New Faculty I Characterization of mechanisms regulating de-differentiation and the re-acquisition of stem cell identity $382,773
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. Siavash Kurdistani New Faculty I Epigenetics in cancer stem cell initiation and clinical outcome prediction $3,063,450
University of California, Santa Cruz Dr. Camilla Forsberg New Faculty I Mechanisms of Stem Cell Fate Decisions $2,201,759
University of Southern California Dr. Mohammad Pashmforoush New Faculty I Transcriptional Regulation of Cardiac Pacemaker Cell Progenitors $2,816,578
University of California, Berkeley Dr. Irina M. Conboy New Faculty I Identification of hESC-mediated molecular mechanism that positively regulates the regenerative capacity of post-natal tissues $2,246,020
University of California, Santa Cruz Dr. Bin Chen New Faculty I Molecular mechanisms of neural stem cell differentiation in the developing brain $2,147,592
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. Kathrin Plath Dr. New Faculty I In vitro reprogramming of mouse and human somatic cells to an embryonic state $2,229,427
The Regents of the University of California on behalf of its Riverside Campus Dr. Douglas Ethell New Faculty I ES-Derived Cells for the Treatment of Alzheimer’s Disease $621,639
Western University of Health Sciences Dr. Douglas W Ethell New Faculty I ES-Derived Cells for the Treatment of Alzheimer’s Disease $1,401,642
University of California, Davis Dr. Chong-Xian Pan New Faculty I Combinatorial Chemistry Approaches to Develop LIgands against Leukemia Stem Cells $2,386,409
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. Hanna Mikkola New Faculty I Mechanisms of Hematopoietic stem cell Specification and Self-Renewal $2,286,900
City of Hope, Beckman Research Institute Dr. Tiziano Barberi New Faculty I Skeletal muscle development from hESC and its in vivo applications in animal models of muscular dystrophy $131,840
Calibr Kristin Baldwin New Faculty I Generating pluripotent cell lines from neurons. $2,786,560
Salk Institute for Biological Studies Dr. Lei Wang New Faculty I Genetic Encoding Novel Amino Acids in Embryonic Stem Cells for Molecular Understanding of Differentiation to Dopamine Neurons $2,587,742
Stanford University Dr. Anne Brunet New Faculty I Molecular mechanisms involved in adult neural stem cell maintenance $2,348,435
University of California, Merced Dr Jennifer O Manilay New Faculty I Enhancing Survival of Embryonic Stem Cell-Derived Grafts by Induction of Immunological Tolerance $1,576,389
University of California, Irvine Dr. Andrew Putnam New Faculty I A Novel Engineered Niche to Explore the Vasculogenic Potential of Embryonic Stem Cells $395,764
Stanford University Dr. Joanna Wysocka PhD New Faculty I Trithorax and Polycomb methyltransferase complexes in cell fate determination. $2,373,903
University of California, San Diego Dr. David Traver New Faculty I Genetic dissection of mesodermal commitment to the hematopoietic fates. $2,150,620
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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