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
ImmunoCellular Therapeutics Anthony J. Gringeri Clinical Trial Stage Projects A Phase III randomized double-blind, controlled study of ICT 107 with maintenance temozolomide (TMZ) in newly diagnosed glioblastoma following resection and concomitant TMZ chemoradiotherapy $5,391,016
Caladrius Biosciences Robert Dillman Clinical Trial Stage Projects Tumor stem cell-targeted immunotherapy for metastatic melanoma –a randomized phase 3 clinical trial. $3,000,000
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. Donald B. Kohn Clinical Trial Stage Projects A Phase I/II, Non Randomized, Multicenter, Open-Label Study of G1XCGD (Lentiviral Vector Transduced CD34+ Cells) in Patients With X-Linked Chronic Granulomatous Disease $6,846,964
Cure Rare Disease Dr. Susan Perlman Late Stage Preclinical Projects Advancing a novel antisense oligonucleotide for the treatment of SCA3, a devastating neurodegenerative disease $5,692,538
University of California, Davis Dr. Joseph S Anderson Late Stage Preclinical Projects Expression of Ube3a by the hematopoietic system for the treatment of Angelman syndrome $4,487,656
Blue Gen Therapeutics Foundation Aaron Nagiel Late Stage Preclinical Projects Development of a novel intravitreal AAV gene therapy for the rare disease blue cone monochromacy. $4,691,936
Rejuvenate Bio Noah Davidsohn Late Stage Preclinical Projects Novel Gene Therapy Targeting Multiple Pathological Drivers of Desmoplakin Associated Arrhythmogenic Cardiomyopathy $570,000
Amplo Biotechnology Patricio Sepulveda Late Stage Preclinical Projects Targeted DOK7 gene therapy for Congenital Myasthenic Syndromes $2,894,305
University of California, San Diego Mark H Tuszynski Late Stage Preclinical Projects Human Embryonic Stem Cell-Derived Neural Stem Cells for Severe Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) $6,000,000
University of California, Los Angeles Arjun Deb Late Stage Preclinical Projects Development of a therapeutic monoclonal antibody for the treatment of myocardial infarction and heart failure $5,999,998
Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles Shahab Asgharzadeh Late Stage Preclinical Projects Chimeric TGFB Signaling Receptor (CTSR) Enabled Anti-B7H3 CAR T-cell Therapy in Children and AYA with Recurrent Solid Tumors $6,000,000
University of California, San Francisco Thomas Martin Late Stage Preclinical Projects A 1XX-enhanced and fully non-viral BCMA CAR T cell therapy for Relapsed and Refractory Multiple Myeloma (UCCT-BCMA-1) $4,585,501
Elpida Therapeutics Mr Terry Pirovolakis Late Stage Preclinical Projects Pre-Clinical To Clinical Gene Therapy Development For CMT4J $3,930,964
AcuraStem Incorporated Mr. Samuel V. Alworth MS, MBA Late Stage Preclinical Projects Manufacturing of AS-202, an Antisense oligonucleotides for a Phase 1/2 Clinical Trial for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis $0
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Dr. Eugenio Cingolani Late Stage Preclinical Projects Extracellular Vesicles for Ventricular Tachycardia $1,050,000
City of Hope, Beckman Research Institute Prof. Karen S Aboody M.D. Late Stage Preclinical Projects Neural stem cell delivered CRAd-S-pk7 oncolytic viro-immunotherapy for ovarian cancer $5,314,547
Tr1X Inc. Maria Grazia Roncarolo Late Stage Preclinical Projects TRX103 for prevention of GvHD in patients receiving HLA mismatched related or unrelated allogeneic HSCT for the treatment of hematologic malignancies. $4,000,000
Mahzi Therapeutics Dr. Yael Weiss Late Stage Preclinical Projects Development of a Gene Therapy for the Treatment of WWOX related epileptic encephalopathy (WOREE) $4,000,000
University of California, Davis Mehrdad Abedi Late Stage Preclinical Projects Superior forward-oriented b-globin vector for treating Sickle Cell Disease $4,598,398
University of Southern California Mark Salman Humayun Late Stage Preclinical Projects IND-enabling program for PRPE-SF, the secretome from polarized stem cell-derived RPE cells, for the treatment of dry-age related macular degeneration $5,993,562
Stanford University Dr. Matthew H Porteus Late Stage Preclinical Projects Autologous Gene Corrected Sinus Basal Cells to Treat Serious Cystic Fibrosis Sinus Disease $6,000,000
University of California, Irvine Kyriacos A Athanasiou Late Stage Preclinical Projects Treatment of the TMJ disc complex $6,000,000
Aspera Biomedicines, Inc Catriona Jamieson Late Stage Preclinical Projects Cancer Stem Cell Interception with Rebecsinib: A First-in-Class ADAR1 Inhibitor $3,200,000
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. Jerome A. Zack Ph.D. Late Stage Preclinical Projects Clinical Translation of Autologous Regenerative Pluripotent Stem Cell Therapy for Blindness $6,000,000
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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