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
University of California, Irvine Dr. Mathew Blurton-Jones Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Transplantation of Pluripotent Stem Cell Derived Microglia for the Treatment of Adult-onset Leukoencephalopathy (HDLS/ALSP) $214,668
Vitabolus, Inc. Aline M Betancourt Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects The First Orally Delivered Cell Therapy for the Treatment of Inflammatory Bowel Disease $249,000
Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation at Harbor – UCLA Medical Center Dr Eiji Yoshihara PhD Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Dual angiogenic and immunomodulating nanotechnology for subcutaneous stem cell derived islet transplantation for the treatment of diabetes $250,000
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. Donald B. Kohn Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Hematopoietic Stem Cell Gene Therapy for X-linked Agammaglobulinemia $219,230
University of California, San Diego Dan S Kaufman Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Human iPSC-derived chimeric antigen receptor-expressing macrophages for cancer treatment $222,200
Stanford University Alan G Cheng Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Modulation of the Wnt pathway to restore inner ear function $1,389,416
University of California, San Diego Prof James S Hagood Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Mesenchymal stem cell extracellular vesicles as therapy for pulmonary fibrosis $0
University of Southern California Dr. Neil Segil Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects A screen for drugs to protect against chemotherapy-induced hearing loss, using sensory hair cells derived by direct lineage reprogramming from hiPSCs $741,574
Salk Institute for Biological Studies Ronald Mark Evans Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Therapeutic immune tolerant human islet-like organoids (HILOs) for Type 1 Diabetes $1,637,209
Gladstone Institutes, J. David Li Gan Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Develop iPSC-derived microglia to treat progranulin-deficient Frontotemporal Dementia $1,547,157
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. Lili Yang Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Preclinical Development of An HSC-Engineered Off-The-Shelf iNKT Cell Therapy for Cancer $1,404,000
University of California, San Diego Dr. Eric D. Adler Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Genetically Modified Hematopoietic Stem Cells for the Treatment of Danon Disease $1,393,200
Stanford University Dr. Katja Weinacht Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Regenerative Thymic Tissues as Curative Cell Therapy for Patients with 22q11 Deletion Syndrome $1,251,720
City of Hope, Beckman Research Institute Dr Saul J Priceman Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Chimeric Antigen Receptor-Engineered Stem/Memory T Cells for the Treatment of Recurrent Ovarian Cancer $1,351,174
Stanford University Dr. Philip Arden Beachy PhD Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Pluripotent stem cell-derived bladder epithelial progenitors for definitive cell replacement therapy of bladder cancer $1,265,436
Scripps Research Institute Stuart A Lipton Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Drug Development for Autism Spectrum Disorder Using Human Patient iPSCs $1,827,576
University of California, San Francisco Dr. Hideho Okada Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Non-viral reprogramming of the endogenous TCRα locus to direct stem memory T cells against shared neoantigens in malignant gliomas $900,000
Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles Dr. Mark R Frey Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Universal Pluripotent Liver Failure Therapy (UPLiFT) $1,297,512
University of California, San Diego Dr. Jonathan H Lin Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Small Molecule Proteostasis Regulators to Treat Photoreceptor Diseases $1,153,937
University of California, Irvine Dr. Aileen J Anderson Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Generation and in vitro profiling of neural stem cell lines to predict in vivo efficacy for chronic cervical spinal cord injury. $1,575,613
University of California, San Francisco Dr. Shuvo Roy Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Silicon Nanopore Membrane encapsulated enriched-Beta Clusters for Type 1 Diabetes treatment $1,113,000
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. Scott G Kitchen Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Engineering Lifelong Cellular Immunity to HIV $1,701,178
University of California, San Diego Tannishtha Reya Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Targeting Cancer Stem Cells in Hematologic Malignancies $1,960,560
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. Thomas Carmichael M.D., Ph.D. Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects iPS Glial Therapy for White Matter Stroke and Vascular Dementia $2,086,130
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. April Pyle Ph.D. Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Identification and Generation of Long Term Repopulating Human Muscle Stem Cells from Human Pluripotent Stem Cells $2,148,519
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Professor Clive Niels Svendsen Disease Team Therapy Planning I Stem Cells Secreting GDNF for the Treatment of ALS $63,487
University of California, San Diego Armin Blesch Progression Award – Discovery Stage Research Projects Simplification of Excipient Solution for Implanting Candidate Human H9-scNSC Cell Line for Spinal Cord Injury $180,000
Stanford University Dr. Helen M Blau Progression Award – Discovery Stage Research Projects Stimulating endogenous muscle stem cells to counter muscle wasting $237,060
University of California, Irvine Dr. Brian J. Cummings Progression Award – Discovery Stage Research Projects Human neural stem cell (hNSC) derived exosomes vs CSC14 hNSCs for the treatment of traumatic brain injury (TBI) $202,667
University of California, Berkeley Kevin E. Healy Progression Award – Discovery Stage Research Projects Safety “Clinical Trial” of the Cardiac Liability of COVID19 Polytherapy $224,500
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. Caroline Y. Kuo Progression Award – Discovery Stage Research Projects Evaluation of Gene Therapy Approaches for Autosomal Recessive Hyper IgE Syndrome Due to Mutations in DOCK8 $234,000
Neurona Therapeutics Dr. Cory R Nicholas Progression Award – Discovery Stage Research Projects Global gene expression profiling of single inhibitory neurons derived from human stem cells $202,500
Stanford University Professor Hiromitsu Nakauchi Progression Award – Discovery Stage Research Projects Using metabolic pausing for maintaining stable and high-quality pluripotent stem cells $208,422
Aspen Neuroscience Dr. Andres Bratt-Leal Progression Award – Discovery Stage Research Projects Autologous therapy for Parkinson’s disease: single cell RNAseq for in depth characterization of transplanted cells $177,579
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