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
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
Scripps Research Institute Dr. Kristin K Baldwin Dr. 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 Southern California Dr. Songtao Shi New Faculty I Oral and Craniofacial Reconstruction Using Mesenchymal Stem Cells $3,242,651
Scripps Research Institute Dr. Sheng Ding Dr. New Faculty I Reprogramming of human somatic cells back to pluripotent embryonic stem cells $1,393,876
Gladstone Institutes, J. David Sheng Ding PhD New Faculty I Reprogramming of human somatic cells back to pluripotent embryonic stem cells $1,320,101
Stanford University Karl Deisseroth New Faculty I Bioengineering technology for fast optical control of differentiation and function in stem cells and stem cell progeny $2,424,209
Stanford University Dr. Howard Y. Chang New Faculty I Noncoding RNAs in Cell Fate Determination $2,985,894
BioTime, Inc. Dr. Michael D West Ph.D. Early Translational I Addressing the Cell Purity and Identity Bottleneck Through Generation and Expansion of Clonal Human Embryonic Progenitor Cell Lines $4,721,706
University of California, Davis Dr. Alice F Tarantal Early Translational I In Utero Model to Assess the Fate of Transplanted Human Cells for Translational Research and Pediatric Therapies $3,143,392
Salk Institute for Biological Studies Dr. Inder M. Verma Early Translational I Curing Hematological Diseases $5,979,252
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute Dr Evan Y Snyder Early Translational I Developmental Candidates for Cell-Based Therapies for Parkinson’s Disease (PD) $5,190,752
Stanford University Dr. Jill Helms Early Translational I Enhancing healing via Wnt-protein mediated activation of endogenous stem cells $6,464,126
Jackson Labs Pali G. Kaur Early Translational I Mouse Models for Stem Cell Therapeutic Development $3,759,134
Gladstone Institutes, J. David Dr. Warner C Greene Early Translational I Maximizing the Safety of Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells as an Infusion Therapy: Limiting the Mutagenic Threat of Retroelement Retrotransposition during iPSC Generation, Expansion and Differentiation $1,280,001
Scripps Research Institute Dr. Martin Friedlander Early Translational I Autologous Retinal Pigmented Epithelial Cells Derived from Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells for the Treatment of Atrophic Age Related Macular Degeneration $5,806,321
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. Gabriel H. Travis Early Translational I Development of a Stem Cell-based Transplantation Strategy for Treating Age-related Macular Degeneration $5,487,136
Scripps Research Institute Dr. Jeanne F Loring Early Translational I Ensuring the safety of cell therapy: a quality control pipeline for cell purification and validation $5,830,771
ViaCyte, Inc. Dr. Olivia G. Kelly Early Translational I Methods for detection and elimination of residual human embryonic stem cells in a differentiated cell product $5,405,397
Scripps Health Dr. Darryl D. D’Lima Early Translational I Stem Cell-Based Therapy for Cartilage Regeneration and Osteoarthritis $3,118,431
University of California, Irvine Dr. Frank LaFerla Early Translational I Neural Stem Cells as a Developmental Candidate to Treat Alzheimer Disease $3,599,997
University of California, Davis Dr. Jan Aileen Nolta PhD Early Translational I Sustained siRNA production from human MSC to treat Huntingtons Disease and other neurodegenerative disorders $2,615,674
University of California, San Diego Dr. Yang Xu Early Translational I Developing induced pluripotent stem cells into human therapeutics and disease models $5,165,028
Parkinson’s Institute Mr. James “Bill” William Langston Mr. Early Translational I Using patient-specific iPSC derived dopaminergic neurons to overcome a major bottleneck in Parkinson’s disease research and drug discovery $3,698,646
University of California, Berkeley Dr. Ellen A. Robey Transplantation Immunology Human Immune System Mouse models as preclinical platforms for stem cell derived grafts $1,005,605
Scripps Research Institute Dr. Nicholas R.J. Gascoigne Transplantation Immunology Role of Innate Immunity in hematopoeitic stem cell-mediated allograft tolerance $1,705,554
Stanford University Dr. Kenneth Weinberg Transplantation Immunology Engineered immune tolerance by Stem Cell-derived thymic regeneration $1,271,729
University of California, Berkeley Dr. David H Raulet Transplantation Immunology Inactivating NK cell reactivity to facilitate transplantation of stem cell derived tissue $952,896
Stanford University Dr. Robert Negrin MD Transplantation Immunology Regulatory T cell induced tolerance to ESC transplantation $1,382,658
University of California, San Diego Prof. Martin Marsala Transplantation Immunology Induction of immune tolerance after spinal grafting of human ES-derived neural precursors $1,387,800
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Dr. Terrence Town Transplantation Immunology Role of HLA in neural stem cell rejection using humanized mice $1,119,385
University of Southern California Dr. Terrence Christopher Town Transplantation Immunology Role of HLA in neural stem cell rejection using humanized mice $353,249
Stanford University Professor Christopher H. Contag Transplantation Immunology Engineering Embryonic Stem Cell Allografts for Operational Tolerance $1,411,338
University of California, San Diego Dr. Yang Xu Transplantation Immunology Induction of immune tolerance to human embryonic stem cell-derived allografts $1,192,680
University of California, Los Angeles UCLA Gay M Crooks Transplantation Immunology Engineering Thymic Regeneration to Induce Tolerance $1,235,445
University of California, Davis Dr. William J Murphy Transplantation Immunology Donor natural killer (NK) cells as “veto” cells to promote donor-specific tolerance $1,257,601
Palo Alto Veterans Institute for Research Dr. Husein Hadeiba Transplantation Immunology Application of Tolerogenic Dendritic Cells for Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation $733,061
Escape Therapeutics, Inc Basil M Hantash Transplantation Immunology Development of an immune tolerant hESC source for allogeneic cell therapy applications $1,453,040
La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology Dr. Anjana Rao Transplantation Immunology Generation of regulatory T cells by reprogramming $1,464,446
University of California, San Francisco Dr. Tippi C. MacKenzie Transplantation Immunology Maternal and Fetal Immune Responses to In Utero Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation $1,230,869

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