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
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute Dr. Huei-sheng Vincent Chen SEED Grant Development of Neuro-Coupled Human Embryonic Stem Cell-Derived Cardiac Pacemaker Cells. $695,680
University of California, Santa Cruz Dr. David Andrew Feldheim SEED Grant Assessing the role of Eph/ephrin signaling in hESC growth and differentiation $474,161
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute Dr. Gregg Duester SEED Grant Retinoic Acid-FGF Antagonism during Motor Neuron Differentiation of Human ES Cells $695,229
University of California, Irvine Professor Charles L Limoli SEED Grant Using human embryonic stem cells to treat radiation-induced stem cell loss: Benefits vs cancer risk $593,242
Stanford University Dr. Phillip C Yang SEED Grant In Vivo Molecular Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Human Embryonic Stem Cells in Murine Model of Myocardial Infarction $629,952
Gladstone Institutes, J. David Dr. Fen-Biao N. Gao SEED Grant MicroRNAs in Human Stem Cell Differentiation and Mental Disorders $748,800
University of California, San Francisco Dr. Valerie Marie Weaver SEED Grant Force, Dimensionality and Stem Cell Fate $529,762
Stanford University Dr. Joanna Wysocka PhD SEED Grant Role of Chromatin Modifiers in Regulating Human Embryonic Stem Cell Pluripotency $629,952
Stanford University Dr. Thomas Wandless SEED Grant Reprogramming Differentiated Human Cells to a Pluripotent State $380,005
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute Dr. Alexey V. Terskikh SEED Grant Analysis of Candidate Neural Crest Cells Derived from Human ES Cells $703,684
University of Southern California Dr. Peter W Laird SEED Grant Screening for Oncogenic Epigenetic Alterations in Human ES Cells $647,431
Stanford University Dr. John P. Cooke SEED Grant EC regeneration in cerebrovascular ischemia: role of NO $476,995
University of California, Berkeley Dr. Carolyn R Bertozzi SEED Grant Profiling surface glycans and glycoprotein expression of human embryonic stem cells $444,847
The Regents of the University of California on behalf of its Riverside Campus Dr. Frank Sauer SEED Grant Non-coding RNA as tool for the active control of stem cell differentiation $571,650
University of California, San Francisco Dr. Miguel Ramalho-Santos SEED Grant Transcriptional Regulation of Human Embryonic Stem Cells $595,755
City of Hope, Beckman Research Institute Dr. Timothy R. O’Connor SEED Grant Sources of Genetic Instability in Human Embryonic Stem Cells. $327,311
University of California, San Francisco Dr. Heike E Daldrup-Link SEED Grant Labeling of human embryonic stem cells with iron oxide nanoparticles and fluorescent dyes for a non-invasive cell depiction with MR imaging and optical imaging $240,214
University of California, Irvine Dr. Brian J. Cummings SEED Grant The Immunological Niche: Effect of immunosuppressant drugs on stem cell proliferation, gene expression, and differentiation in a model of spinal cord injury. $595,345
Gladstone Institutes, J. David Dr. Eric Verdin SEED Grant Role of HDAC in human stem cells pluripotentiality and differentiation $590,997
University of California, San Francisco Dr. Didier Y Stainier SEED Grant Endodermal differentiation of human ES cells $611,027
Scripps Research Institute Peter G. Schultz SEED Grant A Chemical Approach to Stem Cell Biology $748,944
Stanford University Dr. Julien Sage SEED Grant Functions of RB family proteins in human embryonic stem cells $498,609
Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research Dr. Bing Ren SEED Grant Mapping the transcriptional regulatory elements in the genome of hESC $653,823
The Regents of the University of California on behalf of its Riverside Campus Professor Michael C Pirrung SEED Grant Stem Cell Survival and Differentiation Through Chemical Genetics $522,933
University of Southern California Dr. Wange Lu SEED Grant Regulation of human neural progenitor cell proliferation by Ryk-mediated Wnt signaling $624,000
University of California, San Diego Dr. Cornelis Murre SEED Grant Generation of long-term cultures of human hematopoietic multipotent progenitors from embryonic stem cells $473,952
Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles Dr. Elizabeth Rachel Lawlor SEED Grant hESC as tools to investigate the neural crest origin of Ewing’s sarcoma $595,576
Stanford University Dr. Calvin Jay Kuo SEED Grant Differentiation of Human Embryonic Stem Cells to Intestinal Fates $554,176
Stanford University Dr. Krishna Shenoy SEED Grant Technology for hESC-Derived Cardiomyocyte Differentiation and Optimization of Graft-Host Integration in Adult Myocardium $572,891
Solano Community College James DeKloe COMPASS Training Grant IDEA-CBMS – Increase Diversity, Equity, and Advancement in Cell Based Manufacturing Sciences $2,894,500
University of Southern California Dr. Senta Georgia COMPASS Training Grant USC COMPASS: Guiding Undergraduates to Careers in Regenerative Medicine $2,899,999
University of California, Berkeley John Matsui COMPASS Training Grant The COMPASS Scholars Program – Developing Today’s Untapped Talent into Tomorrow’s STEM Cell Researchers $2,889,750
University of California, Los Angeles Tracy L Johnson COMPASS Training Grant COMPASS: Accelerating Stem Cell Research by Educating and Empowering New Stem Cell Researchers $2,910,000
University of California, Santa Barbara Dr. Dennis O. Clegg Dr. COMPASS Training Grant Training and mentorship program in stem cell biology and engineering: A COMPASS for the future $2,746,000
Cal Poly Corporation, an Auxiliary of California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo Dr. Kristen OHalloran Cardinal COMPASS Training Grant A COMPASS to guide the growth of a diverse regenerative medicine workforce that represents California and benefits the world $2,887,939
University of California, Merced Dr. Kara E McCloskey COMPASS Training Grant Training Undergraduates in Stem Cell Engineering and Biology (TUSCEB) $2,909,999
San Francisco State University Dr. Lily Chen COMPASS Training Grant Inclusive Pathways for a Stem Cell Scholar (iPSCS) Undergraduate Training Program $2,894,500
California State University San Marcos Corporation Dr. Bianca Romina Mothé COMPASS Training Grant COMPASS Program for Southern California Hispanic Serving Institution $2,786,300
The University Corporation at California State University, Northridge Cindy S Malone COMPASS Training Grant CSUN CIRM COMPASS Training Program (N-COMPASS) $2,746,805
Cal State Univ, San Bernadino Daniel Nickerson COMPASS Training Grant Student Pluripotency: Realizing Untapped Undergraduate Potential in Regenerative Medicine $2,909,853
Cal State Univ, Fullerton Alison Miyamoto COMPASS Training Grant COMPASS: an inclusive Pipeline for Research and Other Stem cell-based Professions in Regenerative medicine (iPROSPR) $2,856,015
University of California, Irvine Dr. Brian J. Cummings COMPASS Training Grant Research Mentorship Program in Regenerative Medicine Careers for a Diverse Undergraduate Student Body $2,729,900
The Regents of the University of California on behalf of its Riverside Campus Dr. Huinan Hannah Liu COMPASS Training Grant Research Training and Mentorship Program to Inspire Diverse Undergraduates toward Regenerative Medicine Careers (RAMP) $2,910,000
University of California, Davis Dr. Alice F Tarantal COMPASS Training Grant COMPASS Undergraduate Program $2,909,950
MiraCosta College Dr. Michael Fino COMPASS Training Grant Increase Diversity, Equity, and Advancement in Cell Based Manufacturing Sciences (IDEA-CBMS) $2,878,000
Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation at Harbor – UCLA Medical Center Dr. Virender K. Rehan M.D. Research Training Grant Stem Cell Training Program at the Lundquist Institute $5,349,109
University of California, Irvine Dr. Peter J Donovan Research Training Grant CIRM Scholars Comprehensive Research Training Program $5,373,742
University of California, Santa Barbara Dr. Dennis O. Clegg Dr. Research Training Grant CIRM Training Program in Stem Cell Biology and Engineering $2,298,239
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute Dr. Evan Y. Snyder Research Training Grant A Multidisciplinary Stem Cell Training Program at Sanford Burnham Prebys Institute, A Critical Component of the La Jolla Mesa Educational Network $5,289,413
University of California, San Francisco Dr. Robert Blelloch MD, PHD. Research Training Grant Scholars Research Training Program in Regenerative Medicine, Gene Therapy, and Stem Cell Research $5,373,742
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