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
Gladstone Institutes, J. David Dr. Steve M. Finkbeiner Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Lewy body dementia, 𝛼-synuclein, and cell-specific mechanisms of neurodegeneration $1,739,760
Minutia, Inc. Katy Digovich Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Immune cloaking of human stem cell-derived insulin-producing cells for curative cell therapy without immunosuppression $1,192,586
University of California, San Francisco Tomasz Nowakowski Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Neuroimmune interactions in the developing human brain $1,626,000
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. M. Carrie Miceli Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Interrogating Satellite Cell and Myofiber Defects and Repair in Human DMD using Single Nuclei/Single Cell RNA Sequencing of Muscle Resident Cells $1,578,000
University of California, San Diego Dr Marianna Alperin Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Harnessing the rejuvenating capacity of pregnancy-associated factors to restore aged stem cell function $1,539,520
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute Aniruddha Deshpande Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Investigating the SGF29/SAGA complex in regulation of normal and cancer stem cells $1,547,999
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Tyler Mark Pierson Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Modeling of GATAD2B-associated neurodevelopmental disorder and NuRDopathies: Investigation of cellular & molecular anomalies altering neurodevelopment $1,318,441
University of California, Los Angeles Michael F Wells Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Village-based identification of human risk factors for viral neuropathogenesis $1,577,448
City of Hope, Beckman Research Institute Qiong Annabel Wang Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Utilizing Age-Specific Adipocyte Progenitor Cells for Cell Therapy in Older Patients $1,508,997
Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation at Harbor – UCLA Medical Center Denise Al Alam PhD Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Modeling and understanding alveolar hypoplasia in Down syndrome using iPSCs-derived alveolar type II cells $1,524,196
University of California, San Francisco Faranak Fattahi Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects hPSC-derived enteric ganglioids for cell therapy in gastrointestinal motility disorders $1,589,307
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. William Lowry Dr. Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Defining the source of dysfunction in monogenic Intellectual Disability Syndrome neurons $1,500,337
University of California, Santa Cruz Maximilian Haeussler Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects An interactive data resource for hypothesis testing in stem cell single-cell gene expression and validation of the results with brain organoids $1,160,126
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. Kathrin Plath Dr. Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Characterization and applications of human blastoids for understanding early human embryogenesis $1,402,137
University of California, San Francisco Tien Peng Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Ex vivo fate mapping of human lung stem cell plasticity in fibrotic disease $1,625,998
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. Brigitte N Gomperts Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Overcoming barriers for airway stem cell gene therapy for Cystic Fibrosis $1,472,858
University of California, San Francisco Erik Ullian Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Modeling Retinitis Pigmentosa using patient-derived human iPSC organoids $1,380,543
University of California, Irvine Albert La Spada Ph.D. Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Role of ataxin-3 polyadenylation site selection in ALS neuron toxicity and disease pathogenesis $1,514,416
University of California, Irvine Dr. Brian J. Cummings Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Mapping the spatial and temporal responses of hESC-derived microglia to repeat mild closed head injury to identify therapeutic targets and mechanisms $1,339,685
University of California, San Francisco Tomasz Nowakowski Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Identifying roadblocks to neural stem cell transplantation into human tissues. $1,551,394
Scripps Research Institute Xin Jin Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Functional genomics to study cellular convergence across ASD risk genes in neurodevelopment $1,575,001
University of California, Los Angeles UCLA Gay M Crooks Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Engineering pluripotent stem cells for universally available, off-the-shelf T cell therapies $1,352,753
University of California, San Diego Dr. Alon Goren Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Establishment of a novel approach to systematically study the dynamic organization of protein complexes in stem cells $1,515,601
University of California, San Francisco Dr. Elizabeth Crouch Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Harnessing vascular stem cells to grow and protect the human brain $1,391,998
University of California, Santa Cruz Dr. Camilla Forsberg Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Determining how age-specific heterogeneity of human hematopoietic stem cells and megakaryocyte progenitors contribute to thrombotic disease upon aging $1,336,800
University of California, San Francisco Yin Shen PhD Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Understanding Chemotherapy-Induced Peripheral Neuropathy Mechanisms using CRISPRi and Chemical Screens in Human iPSC-Derived Sensory Neurons $1,621,913
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Dmitriy Sheyn Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects The role of WNT and BMP signaling pathways in iPSC to iTenocyte step-wise differentiation for tendon repair $1,516,563
Gladstone Institutes, J. David Julia Kaye Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Developing a Human Model of Sporadic ALS Using Machine Learning and Robotic Microscopy $1,406,622
Greenstone Biosciences, Inc. Dr. Mukhtar Ahmed Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Drug Discovery for Dilated Cardiomyopathy using Patient-Derived Human iPSCs $1,350,000
Stanford University Dr. Marius Wernig MD, PhD Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Developing a microglia replacement therapy $1,378,365
University of California, San Diego Heidi Cook-Andersen Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Towards a trophectoderm stem-cell model representing human blastocysts of the highest implantation potential $1,584,000
University of California, San Diego Dr. Alexis Komor Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Development of a stem-cell based approach to interpret global effects of genetic variants contributing to neurodevelopmental disease risk $1,518,982
University of California, San Francisco Dr. Robert Blelloch MD, PHD. Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Development of universal off-the-shelf iPSC derived dendritic cells for use as patient specific anti-tumor vaccine $1,391,999
University of California, Berkeley Dr. Michael P. Rapé Dr. Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Control of OCT4 abundance and function in human stem cells $1,234,023
University of California, San Francisco Harold A. Chapman Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Modulation of human alveolar stem cells to promote lung regeneration and avoid pulmonary fibrosis $1,626,001
University of California, Los Angeles Dr Melissa Jan Spencer Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Engineering AAV capsids for transduction of neural and muscle stem cells $999,999
University of California, San Diego Francesca Soncin Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Drivers of trophoblast stem/progenitor cell identity in human placenta $993,881
University of California, Irvine Momoko Watanabe Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Generation of cortical organoids with tunable areal identities by spatial engineering of morphogens $0
University of California, San Diego Dr. Steven F Dowdy Discovery Research Projects Development of Anti-COVID RNAi Therapeutics Using Human iPSC-Derived Alveolar Epithelial Cells $150,000
Celularity Inc. William van der Touw Clinical Trial Stage Projects A phase I/II study of human placental hematopoietic stem cell derived natural killer cells (CYNK-001) for the treatment of adults with COVID-19 $315,000
University of California, San Francisco Dr. Michael Matthay MD Clinical Trial Stage Projects Mesenchymal Stromal Cells for ARDS (COVID positive and COVID negative) $699,798
City of Hope, Beckman Research Institute Prof. John A. Zaia Clinical Trial Stage Projects Evaluation and Characterization of SARS-CoV-2 Antibody in Convalescent Volunteer Plasma Donors for Potential Therapeutic Use $999,999
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. Vaithilingaraja Arumugaswami PhD Therapeutic Translational Research Projects COVID-19 Antiviral Therapy to Block Direct Cell Injury and Associated Tissue Damage $349,999
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute Dr. Evan Y. Snyder Discovery Research Projects Using hiPSC-derived lung organoids, a clinically-relevant system, to validate & winnow a list of approved drugs that inhibit SARS-CoV-2 cytopathy $228,229
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. Lili Yang Discovery Research Projects Battling COVID-19 Using Off-The-Shelf HSC-Engineered iNKT Cells $250,000
University of Southern California Preet M Chaudhary Discovery Research Projects Chimeric Antigen Receptor Targeting Spike Glycoprotein of SARS-cov2 $248,125
University of California, San Diego Dr Karen Christman Discovery Research Projects Pro-healing biomaterial for treating lung inflammation associated with COVID-19 $221,758
City of Hope, Beckman Research Institute Dr Jianhua Yu Discovery Research Projects Persistent Off-the-Shelf meACE2-CAR-IL-15 NK Cells Derived from CD34(+) Cord Blood Stem Cells to Prevent and Treat COVID-19 $150,000
Stanford University Dr. Albert J Wong Discovery Research Projects Identifying HLA Class I Restricted Peptides That Induce CD8+ T Cells Against SARS-CoV-2 $249,999
Stanford University Dr. Helen M Blau Discovery Research Projects Application of PGE2/BPV, a muscle stem cell targeting therapeutic, to the treatment of COVID-19 associated diaphragm atrophy $149,996
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