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
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 Southern California Mark Salman Humayun Disease Team Therapy Development III Phase 1 Safety Assessment of CPCB-RPE1, hESC-derived RPE Cell Coated Parylene Membrane Implants, in Patients with Advanced Dry Age Related Macular Degeneration $16,339,827
University of California, Davis Peter Belafsky Disease Team Therapy Development III Tissue Engineered Recellularized Laryngotracheal Implants $3,181,162
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. Dennis J Slamon Disease Team Therapy Development III A Phase I dose escalation and expansion clinical trial of the novel first-in-class Polo-like Kinase 4 (PLK4) inhibitor, CFI-400945 in patients with advanced solid tumors $5,683,693
Stanford University Professor Irving L Weissman MD Disease Team Therapy Development III Clinical Investigation of a Humanized Anti-CD47 Antibody in Targeting Cancer Stem Cells in Hematologic Malignancies and Solid Tumors $6,505,568
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. Donald B. Kohn Disease Team Therapy Development III Clinical Trial of Stem Cell Gene Therapy for Sickle Cell Disease $10,351,535
University of California, San Diego Thomas J Kipps Disease Team Therapy Development III Therapeutic Eradication of Cancer Stem Cells with UC-961 (Cirmtuzumab) $4,179,598
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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