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
Parkinson’s Institute Dr. Birgitt Schuele Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects CRISPR/dCas9 mutant targeting SNCA promoter for downregulation of alpha-synuclein expression as a novel therapeutic approach for Parkinson’s disease $1,288,415
Gladstone Institutes, J. David Dr. Deepak Srivastava Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Direct Cardiac Reprogramming for Regenerative Medicine $2,392,157
University of California, Irvine Leslie M Thompson Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects hNSC-mediated delivery of ApiCCT1 as a candidate therapeutic for Huntington’s disease $1,650,263
Stanford University Dr. Roel Nusse Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Preclinical development of human hepatocyte progenitor cells for cell therapy $1,651,211
University of California, San Francisco Dr. Tejal Ashwin Desai Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Thin Film Encapsulation Devices for Human Stem Cell derived Insulin Producing Cells $1,092,063
Stanford University Dr. Rosa Bacchetta Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects GENE EDITING FOR FOXP3 IN HUMAN HSC $984,228
California Institute of Technology Dr. David Baltimore PhD Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Immunotherapy for HIV infection using engineered hematopoietic stem/progenitor cells $1,569,193
Gladstone Institutes, J. David Dr. Deepak Srivastava Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Use of Human iPSC-derived Endothelial Cells for Calcific Aortic Valve Disease Therapeutics $2,400,048
Scripps Research Institute Dr. Jeanne F Loring Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Autologous cell therapy for Parkinson’s disease using iPSC-derived DA neurons $2,299,786
University of California, Davis Dr. David J Segal PhD Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects MSC delivery of an artificial transcription factor to the brain as a treatment for Angelman Syndrome $1,055,319
University of California, Berkeley Dr. David V. Schaffer Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Scalable, Defined Production of Oligodendrocyte Precursor Cells to Treat Neural Disease and Injury $1,627,099
Stanford University Professor Hiromitsu Nakauchi Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Novel Rejuvenated T Cell Immunotherapy for Lung Cancer $1,968,456
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. April Pyle Ph.D. Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects CRISPR/Cas9 nanoparticle enabled therapy for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy in muscle stem cells $2,150,400
University of California, San Diego Karl Karl J. Wahlin Inception – Discovery Stage Research Projects An IPSC cell based model of macular degeneration for drug discovery. $232,200
University of California, Los Angeles Alireza Moshaverinia Inception – Discovery Stage Research Projects Gingival mesenchymal stem cells as a novel treatment modality for periodontal tissue regeneration $194,483
Zenobia Therapeutics Vicki Nienaber Inception – Discovery Stage Research Projects A new phenotypic screening platform that identifies biologically-relevant targets and lead compounds for the treatment of Parkinson’s disease $112,500
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Dmitriy Sheyn Inception – Discovery Stage Research Projects IVD rejuvenation using iPSC-derived notochordal cells $241,992
Loma Linda University Dr. David J Baylink Inception – Discovery Stage Research Projects Bone Marrow Targeting of Hematopoietic Stem Cells Engineered to Overexpress 25-OH-VD3 1-α-hydroxylase for Acute Myeloid Leukemia Therapy $178,967
Palo Alto Veterans Institute for Research Dr. Ngan F Huang Inception – Discovery Stage Research Projects iPSC-Derived Smooth Muscle Progenitors for Treatment of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm $172,621
University of California, Davis Dr. Alice F Tarantal Inception – Discovery Stage Research Projects Enhanced Branching Morphogenesis and Pluripotent Cell Lineage Differentiation for Pediatric Regenerative Therapies $235,800
Loma Linda University Julia J. Unternaehrer-Hamm Inception – Discovery Stage Research Projects Targeting cancer stem cells with nanoparticle RNAi delivery to prevent recurrence and metastasis of ovarian cancer $172,870
Human BioMolecular Research Institute Dr. John R Cashman Inception – Discovery Stage Research Projects Human Pancreatic Cancer Stem Cells: Developing a Novel Drug for Cancer Eradication $303,785
Stanford University Professor Hiromitsu Nakauchi Inception – Discovery Stage Research Projects Optimizing self-renewal signaling kinetics to stabilize ex vivo hematopoietic stem cell expansion $210,906
University of California, San Diego Gerald P Morris Inception – Discovery Stage Research Projects Identification of antigenic neo-epitopes from in vitro reprogrammed human tissue precursors for regenerative therapy $193,500
University of California, Davis Alyssa Panitch PhD Inception – Discovery Stage Research Projects Development of treatments to improve healing of ischemic wounds $235,099
Stanford University Guillem Pratx Inception – Discovery Stage Research Projects Novel metabolic labeling method for tracking stem cells to irradiated salivary glands using PET $229,227
University of California, San Francisco Semil P Choksi Inception – Discovery Stage Research Projects Generation of human airway stem cells by direct transcriptional reprogramming for disease modeling and regeneration $238,408
University of California, Irvine Janet E Baulch Inception – Discovery Stage Research Projects An exosome-based translational strategy to mitigate Alzheimer’s disease neuropathology $157,650
University of California, San Diego Dr. Tannishtha Reya Inception – Discovery Stage Research Projects Reprogramming human stem cells for blood cell generation $210,060
Stanford University Dr. Helen M Blau Inception – Discovery Stage Research Projects Prodrug innovation to target muscle stem cells and enhance muscle regeneration $235,834
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute Dr Alessandra Sacco Inception – Discovery Stage Research Projects Generation of expandable, self-renewing muscle stem cells for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy $252,000
University of California, San Francisco Sonja Schrepfer Inception – Discovery Stage Research Projects Hypo-immunogenic cardiac patches for myocardial regeneration $235,818
University of Southern California Biju B. Thomas Inception – Discovery Stage Research Projects A Novel Tissue Engineering Technique to Repair Degenerated Retina $215,133
Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles Dr. Senta Georgia Inception – Discovery Stage Research Projects Developing a personalized approach to beta cell replacement for patients with a genetic form of diabetes $179,995
Vitalant Research Institute Dr. Marcus Oliver Muench Inception – Discovery Stage Research Projects Modulating Liver Sinusoidal Endothelial Cell Permeability to Enhance Engraftment of Endothelial Cell Progenitors for the Treatment of Hemophilia A $180,000
Stanford University Jeffrey L Goldberg Inception – Discovery Stage Research Projects Embryonic Stem Cells for Corneal Endothelial Degeneration $235,836
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. Owen N Witte M.D. Inception – Discovery Stage Research Projects Identification of stem cell surface markers as potential therapeutic targets for advanced prostate cancer $209,160
University of California, San Diego Professor Alysson R Muotri Inception – Discovery Stage Research Projects Reverse transcriptase inhibitors as a novel therapeutic approach for neurological autoimmune disorders $210,060
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. April Pyle Ph.D. Inception – Discovery Stage Research Projects Novel Platforms to Enhance In Vivo Delivery of Skeletal Muscle Progenitor Cells from Human Pluripotent Stem Cells $230,400
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. Bennett G Novitch Ph.D. Inception – Discovery Stage Research Projects Organoid Modeling of Human Cortical Microcircuits $208,916
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Professor Clive Niels Svendsen Inception – Discovery Stage Research Projects Blood Brain Barrier (BBB)-on-Chip: Development and validation of a novel iPS-based microfluidic model of the human BBB $241,992
University of California, San Francisco Dr. Holger F Willenbring Inception – Discovery Stage Research Projects Generation of bile duct-competent transplantable human liver organoids $206,460
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. Arjun Deb Inception – Discovery Stage Research Projects Targeting progenitors in scar tissue to reduce chronic scar burden $230,400
University of California, Berkeley Dr. Jacob Ellery Corn Ph.D Inception – Discovery Stage Research Projects Genome editing for causation and reversion of MPN-associated mutations in human hematopoietic stem cells $235,800
Stanford University Dr. Philip Arden Beachy PhD Inception – Discovery Stage Research Projects Curing bladder cancer by replacing corrupted urothelium with differentiated hES cells $210,906
University of California, San Diego Dionicio Siegel Inception – Discovery Stage Research Projects New Methods for the Chemical Expansion of Hematopoietic Stem and Progenitor Cells $232,200
Stanford University Dr. Bertha Chen Inception – Discovery Stage Research Projects Autologous iPSC-based therapy for radiation induced bladder injury $235,836
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. Thomas Carmichael M.D., Ph.D. Inception – Discovery Stage Research Projects iPS-Interneuron Transplantation for Neural Repair after Stroke $229,396
University of California, San Diego Karl Karl J. Wahlin Inception – Discovery Stage Research Projects Microenvironment based optimization of retinal induction using CRISPR-CAS9 reporter pluripotent stem cells as an expandable source of retinal progenitors and photoreceptors. $232,200
University of California, San Francisco Andrew Stephen Brack Inception – Discovery Stage Research Projects Examining the efficacy of GDF11 antibody as a rejuvenator of aged human muscle stem cell capacity and muscle repair . $180,000
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