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.

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Institution Researcher name Grant Type Grant Title Award Value
California Institute of Technology Dr. David Anthony Tirrell Basic Biology V Engineered matrices for control of lineage commitment in human pancreatic stem cells $526,896
Salk Institute for Biological Studies Ronald Mark Evans Basic Biology V Metabolically-driven epigenetic changes in iPSC reprogramming $1,491,900
University of California, San Diego Dr. Dianne McKay Basic Biology V Role of intracytoplasmic pattern recognition receptors in HSC engraftment $615,639
Stanford University Dr. Gary Steinberg Basic Biology V Paracrine and synaptic mechanisms underlying neural stem cell-mediated stroke recovery $1,178,370
University of California, San Diego Christian Metallo Basic Biology V Metabolic regulation of cardiac differentiation and maturation $1,124,834
University of California, Los Angeles Dr Samantha J Butler Ph.D. Basic Biology V Assessing the mechanism by which the Bone Morphogenetic Proteins direct stem cell fate $515,730
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Paul W Noble Basic Biology V Innate Immune Regulation of Lung Alveolar Stem Cell Renewal in Mouse and Man $617,662
Gladstone Institutes, J. David Sheng Ding PhD Basic Biology V A novel druggable mechanism to safeguard stem cell genome $1,294,495
University of California, San Francisco Dr. Mark S. Anderson Basic Biology V Generation of a functional thymus to induce immune tolerance to stem cell derivatives $1,191,000
University of California, Irvine Dr. Lisa A Flanagan Basic Biology V Molecular basis of plasma membrane characteristics reflecting stem cell fate potential $994,108
University of California, San Diego Maike Sander Basic Biology V Defining links between chromatin state and developmental competence $1,050,300
University of Southern California Dr. Denis A Evseenko Dr. Basic Biology V Promoting survival and countering hypertrophy of pluripotent stem cell (PSC)-derived chondrocytes $735,138
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. Denis A Evseenko Dr. Basic Biology V Promoting survival and countering hypertrophy of pluripotent stem cell (PSC)-derived chondrocytes $411,330
University of California, San Diego Miles F Wilkinson Basic Biology V New Regulators of Spermatogonial Stem Cells: RHOX Homeobox Transcription Factors $552,811
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. Lili Yang Basic Biology V Differentiation of Human Hematopoietic Stem Cells into iNKT Cells $614,400
University of California, San Diego Dr. Cornelis Murre Basic Biology V Epigenetic mechanisms that enforce pluripotency in embryonic stem cells $1,160,997
University of California, San Diego Dr. Wei Wang Basic Biology V Systems-level discovery of the regulatory mechanisms directing differentiation of hESC $1,161,000
University of California, San Diego Dr. Lawrence S. B. Goldstein Basic Biology V Elucidating pathways from hereditary Alzheimer mutations to pathological tau phenotypes $1,050,300
University of California, San Diego Dr. David A. Cheresh Basic Biology V CD61-driven stemness program in epithelial cancer $1,161,000
University of California, Berkeley Dr. Andrew Dillin Basic Biology V A Requirement for Protein Homeostasis in the Mediation of Stem Cell Health $1,034,100
Stanford University Xinnan Wang Basic Biology V Misregulated Mitophagy in Parkinsonian Neurodegeneration $1,174,943
University of California, San Diego Jonathan Sebat ReMIND – Discovery Stage ReMIND Modeling the genetic basis of psychopathology in schizophrenia and autism $12,703,708
University of California, San Francisco Tomasz Nowakowski ReMIND – Discovery Stage ReMIND CIRM Center for Neuropsychiatric Stem Cell Proteomics $13,781,522
Scripps Research Institute Xin Jin ReMIND – Discovery Stage ReMIND Translational epigenomics: dissecting cell type-specific function of neuropsychiatric risk genes in vivo $11,376,314
Scripps Research Institute Stuart A Lipton ReMIND – Discovery Stage ReMIND Multiomic Studies of Idiopathic Intellectual Disability and Autism Spectrum Disorder (ID/ASD) $17,365,387
University of California, San Francisco Alex Pollen ReMIND – Discovery Stage ReMIND Deep phenotyping of human brain organoid models of autism spectrum disorder to unravel disease heterogeneity and develop biomarkers and treatments $12,297,272
University of Southern California Dr. Francesca Mariani Conference – 2024 CIRM Trainee Network Conference Manage the 2024 CIRM Annual Trainee Network Conference $400,000
EVERSANA Abbi Kalb Patient Support Program Patient Support Program to Improve Accessibility to Eligible CIRM-Trial Patients $2,485,000
Gladstone Institutes, J. David Dr. Bruce R. Conklin Shared Labs Grant – Enhancing/Expanding SRLs A Center for Stem Cell Disease Modeling and Therapeutics $4,000,000
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Arun Sharma Shared Labs Grant – Enhancing/Expanding SRLs Shared Resource Laboratory for Advanced Stem Cell-Based Modeling $3,999,995
University of California, Santa Barbara Dr. Dennis O. Clegg Dr. Shared Labs Grant – Enhancing/Expanding SRLs Shared Resources Laboratory for Stem Cell-Based Modeling in Stem Cell Biology and Engineering $3,991,879
Salk Institute for Biological Studies Dr. Fred H Gage Shared Labs Grant – Enhancing/Expanding SRLs Shared Resource Laboratory for Stem Cell-Based Modeling: Resources for Exploring the Biological Underpinnings of Aging and Age-Associated Pathologies $3,641,064
University of Southern California Dr. Nils O. Lindstrom Shared Labs Grant – Enhancing/Expanding SRLs CIRM ASCEND Center – Advancing Stem Cell Education and Novel Discoveries $3,663,163
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. Kathrin Plath Dr. Shared Labs Grant – Enhancing/Expanding SRLs A modular automation approach to stem cell modeling to increase throughput, reproducibility and access $3,999,999
University of California, Irvine Craig M. Walsh Shared Labs Grant – Enhancing/Expanding SRLs Shared Resources Laboratories to Enhance In Vitro Stem Cell Modeling and Training $3,641,396
Humboldt State University Sponsored Programs Foundation Dr Amy Sprowles Shared Labs Grant – Establishing SRLs Cal Poly Humboldt Shared Resource Laboratory for Human Stem Cell-Based Modeling (SRL-hSC) $4,399,888
University of California, Merced Dr. Kara E McCloskey Shared Labs Grant – Establishing SRLs UCM Resources for Expanding Stem cell-derived Tissues and Organs for Regenerative Engineering (RESTORE) $5,396,133
Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation at Harbor – UCLA Medical Center Denise Al Alam PhD Shared Labs Grant – Establishing SRLs Stem cell-based Parternship Resource for Investigating Human Diseases and Training (SPRINT) $5,400,000
City of Hope, Beckman Research Institute Dr. Nadia Carlesso Ph.D., M.D. Shared Labs Grant – Establishing SRLs Stem Cell-based Disease Modeling Shared Resource Laboratory $5,400,000
University of California, Davis Brian Fury Manufacturing Network Grant Creating A Collaborative California Cell and Gene Therapy Manufacturing Network $1,543,522
City of Hope, Beckman Research Institute Dr. Taby Ahsan Manufacturing Network Grant Scalable Expansion for Stem Cell-derived Therapies $1,998,174
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. Dawn Ward Manufacturing Network Grant Enhancing California’s Manufacturing of Leading-Edge Cell & Gene Therapies $2,000,000
University of California, San Francisco Dr Brian Rudolph Shy Manufacturing Network Grant Open Manufacturing Network for Cell and Gene Therapies $1,999,933
University of Southern California Mohamed Abou-el-Enein Manufacturing Network Grant Advancing Cell Therapy Manufacturing Through Collaboration $1,999,964
Stanford University Steve Feldman Manufacturing Network Grant Laboratory for Cell and Gene Medicine: A partner in the California Cell and Gene Therapy Manufacturing Network $2,000,000
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Dr. Dhruv Sareen Manufacturing Network Grant A comprehensive biomanufacturing center solving bottlenecks in cell and gene therapy manufacturing to accelerate new therapies for California patients $2,000,000
University of California, Irvine Dr. Aileen J Anderson Manufacturing Network Grant The UCI GMP Cell and Gene Therapy Manufacturing Facility $2,000,000
University of California, San Diego Dan S Kaufman Manufacturing Network Grant UCSD Advanced Cell Therapy Laboratory $2,000,000
Stanford University Xiaojie Qiu Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Mapping and modeling endothelial cell fate decisions for pulmonary arterial hypertension $1,540,798
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
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