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.
All CIRM Grants
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Institution |
Researcher name |
Grant Type |
Grant Title |
Award Value |
University of California, Los Angeles |
Dr. Owen N Witte M.D. |
Basic Biology IV |
Trop2 dependent and independent mechanisms of self-renewal in human cancer stem cells |
$1,254,960 |
Stanford University |
Ben A Barres |
Basic Biology IV |
Phenotyping Human Astrocytes in Health and Disease |
$0 |
University of California, Berkeley |
Dr. Robert Tjian |
Basic Biology IV |
Transcriptional regulation of pluripotency in human embryonic stem cells |
$1,220,968 |
University of California, Los Angeles |
Dr. Kathrin Plath Dr. |
Basic Biology IV |
Understanding the status of the X chromosomes in human ESCs and preimplantation embryos |
$1,382,400 |
Gladstone Institutes, J. David |
Dr. Steve M. Finkbeiner |
Basic Biology IV |
Common molecular mechanisms in neurodegenerative diseases using patient based iPSC neurons |
$1,395,184 |
Stanford University |
Alexander Robert Dunn |
Basic Biology IV |
Role of mechanical signaling in stem cell self-renewal and differentiation |
$1,062,998 |
Stanford University |
Dr. Anne Brunet |
Basic Biology IV |
Energy metabolism and aging pathways in human stem cell reprogramming and differentiation |
$1,414,044 |
University of California, San Francisco |
Dr. Miguel Ramalho-Santos |
Basic Biology IV |
Genetic dissection of human cellular reprogramming to pluripotency |
$1,184,883 |
Gladstone Institutes, J. David |
Sheng Ding PhD |
Basic Biology IV |
A new paradigm of lineage-specific reprogramming |
$1,568,395 |
Stanford University |
Michael Cleary |
Basic Biology IV |
Prostaglandin pathway regulation of self-renwal in hematopoietic and leukemia stem cells |
$1,244,455 |
Stanford University |
Michelle Monje |
Basic Biology IV |
Stem Cell Mechanisms Governing Discrete Waves of Gliogenesis in the Childhood Brain |
$1,264,248 |
University of California, San Diego |
Gene Wei-Ming Yeo |
Basic Biology IV |
Stem cell models to analyze the role of mutated C9ORF72 in neurodegeneration |
$1,260,360 |
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center |
Professor Clive Niels Svendsen |
iPSC Consortia Award |
The HD iPSC Consortium: Repeat Length Dependent Phenotypes for Assay Development |
$300,000 |
Stanford University |
Dr. Joseph C. Wu |
Disease Team Therapy Development – Research |
Human Embryonic Stem Cell-Derived Cardiomyocytes for Patients with End Stage Heart Failure |
$19,060,330 |
Capricor, Inc |
Dr. Rachel Ruckdeschel Smith |
Disease Team Therapy Development – Research |
Allogeneic Cardiac-Derived Stem Cells for Patients Following a Myocardial Infarction |
$14,405,857 |
University of California, Los Angeles |
Dr. Antoni Ribas MD/PhD |
Disease Team Therapy Development – Research |
Genetic Re-programming of Stem Cells to Fight Cancer |
$14,144,221 |
University of California, Los Angeles |
Dr. Stanley Nelson |
Disease Team Therapy Development – Research |
Combination Therapy to Enhance Antisense Mediated Exon Skipping for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy |
$0 |
University of California, Irvine |
Dr. Henry John Klassen |
Disease Team Therapy Development – Research |
Retinal progenitor cells for treatment of retinitis pigmentosa |
$17,144,825 |
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center |
Professor Clive Niels Svendsen |
Disease Team Therapy Development – Research |
Progenitor Cells Secreting GDNF for the Treatment of ALS |
$16,168,464 |
StemCells, Inc. |
Dr. Alexandra Capela |
Disease Team Therapy Development – Research |
Restoration of memory in Alzheimer’s disease: a new paradigm using neural stem cell therapy |
$8,901,641 |
Stanford University |
Dr. Judith A Shizuru |
Disease Team Therapy Development – Research |
A monoclonal antibody that depletes blood stem cells and enables chemotherapy free transplants |
$18,990,683 |
University of California, Davis |
Dr. John Laird |
Disease Team Therapy Development – Research |
Phase I study of IM Injection of VEGF-Producing MSC for the Treatment of Critical Limb Ischemia |
$3,728,384 |
University of California, Davis |
Dr. Vicki Wheelock |
Disease Team Therapy Development – Research |
MSC engineered to produce BDNF for the treatment of Huntington’s disease |
$8,924,235 |
StemCells, Inc. |
Dr. Nobuko Uchida |
Disease Team Therapy Development – Research |
Neural stem cell transplantation for chronic cervical spinal cord injury |
$0 |
University of California, Davis |
Nancy E. Lane |
Disease Team Therapy Development – Research |
Treatment of non-traumatic osteonecrosis with endogenous Mesenchymal stem cells |
$18,227,898 |
Salk Institute for Biological Studies |
Dr. David R Schubert |
Early Translational III |
Stem cell based small molecule therapy for Alzheimer’s disease |
$1,673,757 |
City of Hope, Beckman Research Institute |
Dr. Stephen J Forman |
Early Translational III |
Targeting glioma cancer stem cells with receptor-engineered self-renewing memory T cells |
$5,215,447 |
Gladstone Institutes, J. David |
Dr. Deepak Srivastava |
Early Translational III |
Direct Cardiac Reprogramming for Heart Regeneration |
$5,795,871 |
University of California, San Diego |
Dr. Lawrence S. B. Goldstein |
Early Translational III |
Identifying Drugs for Alzheimer’s Disease with Human Neurons Made From Human IPS cells |
$1,774,420 |
University of California, San Diego |
Dr. Yang Xu |
Early Translational III |
Human ES cell based therapy of heart failure without allogenic immune rejection |
$1,857,600 |
Stanford University |
Dr. Joseph C. Wu |
Early Translational III |
Heart Repair with Human Tissue Engineered Myocardium |
$4,395,080 |
University of California, San Francisco |
Mort Cowan |
Early Translational III |
Gene Correction of Autologous Hematopoietic Stem Cells in Artemis Deficient SCID |
$3,862,367 |
Stanford University |
Professor Helen M. Blau PhD |
Early Translational III |
Local Delivery of Rejuvenated Old Muscle Stem Cells to Increase Strength in Aged Patients |
$1,825,283 |
University of Southern California |
Dr. Toshio Miki |
Early Translational III |
Generation of hepatic cell from placental stem cell for congenital metabolic disorders |
$1,750,375 |
Children’s Hospital of Orange County |
Dr. Philip H Schwartz |
Early Translational III |
Immune-Matched Neural Stem Cell Transplantation for Pediatric Neurodegenerative Disease |
$4,266,015 |
University of California, San Francisco |
Dr. Holger F Willenbring |
Early Translational III |
Generation of safe and therapeutically effective human induced hepatocyte-like cells |
$1,544,170 |
Salk Institute for Biological Studies |
Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte |
Early Translational III |
Direct reprogramming towards vascular progenitors for the treatment of ischemia |
$2,340,000 |
University of California, San Diego |
Dr. Eric D. Adler MD |
Early Translational III |
Identification of Novel Therapeutics for Danon Disease Using an iPS Model of the Disease |
$1,701,575 |
University of California, Davis |
Walter Douglas Boyd |
Early Translational III |
Extracellular Matrix Bioscaffold Augmented with Human Stem Cells for Cardiovascular Repair |
$4,631,754 |
Stanford University |
Dr. Bertha Chen |
Early Translational III |
Autologous iPSC Therapy for Urinary Incontinence |
$4,715,738 |
University of California, San Diego |
Mark H Tuszynski |
Early Translational III |
Functional Neural Relay Formation by Human Neural Stem Cell Grafting in Spinal Cord Injury |
$4,600,447 |
University of California, Davis |
Prof. Kyriacos A. Athanasiou Ph.D |
Early Translational III |
Tissue engineered cartilage from autologous, dermis-isolated, adult, stem (DIAS) cells |
$1,735,703 |
University of California, Irvine |
Craig M. Walsh |
Early Translational III |
Multiple Sclerosis therapy: Human Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Neural Progenitor Cells |
$4,535,005 |
Scripps Research Institute |
Peter G. Schultz |
Early Translational III |
Targeting Stem Cells to Enhance Remyelination in the Treatment of Multiple Sclerosis |
$2,559,333 |
University of California, San Francisco |
Dr. Arnold Kriegstein |
Early Translational III |
Human ES cell-derived MGE inhibitory interneuron transplantation for spinal cord injury |
$1,623,251 |
University of California, San Diego |
Gene Wei-Ming Yeo |
Early Translational III |
Molecules to Correct Aberrant RNA Signature in Human Diseased Neurons |
$1,532,323 |
University of California, Santa Cruz |
Dr. David Haussler |
Training Grant I-3 |
Training Program in Systems Biology of Stem Cells |
$1,133,701 |
University of California, Santa Barbara |
Dr. Dennis O. Clegg |
Training Grant I-3 |
UCSB Stem Cell Biology Training Program |
$975,334 |
Salk Institute for Biological Studies |
Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte |
Training Grant I-3 |
Training in the Biology of Human Enbryonic Stem Cells and Emerging Technologies |
$1,261,333 |
California Institute of Technology |
Paul H. Patterson |
Training Grant I-2 |
Training in Stem Cell Biology at CIT |
$1,817,214 |