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.

See our complete portfolio of awards below.

All CIRM Grants

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Institution Researcher name Grant Type Grant Title Award Value
University of California, Merced John O. White Major Facilities Stem Cell Instrumentation Foundry $4,341,321
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. Gene D. Block Major Facilities UCLA CIRM Institute $19,854,900
University of California, Irvine Dr. Michael V Drake Major Facilities UC Irvine CIRM Institute $27,156,000
University of California, Davis Dr. Larry N. Vanderhoef Major Facilities UC Davis CIRM Institute $20,082,400
University of California, Berkeley Dr. George W. Breslauer Major Facilities UC Berkeley CIRM Center of Excellence $20,183,500
Stanford University Dr. John L. Hennessy Major Facilities Stanford SIM1 Building $43,578,000
Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine Edward Holmes Major Facilities Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine $42,827,439
Buck Institute for Age Research Mary McEachron Major Facilities CIRM Center of Excellence at Buck Institute for Age Research $20,500,000
University of California, Los Angeles Bennett G Novitch Basic Biology V In vitro modeling of human motor neuron disease $1,148,758
Stanford University Professor Helen M. Blau PhD Basic Biology V Mass Cytometry to Delineate the Human Muscle Stem Cell Hierarchy and Dysfunction in Aging $1,175,357
Stanford University Dr. Marius Wernig MD, PhD Basic Biology V Mechanisms of human induced neuronal cell reprogramming $1,178,370
University of California, Irvine Dr. Peter J Donovan Basic Biology V Non-invasive live imaging of stem cell signature metabolic states $516,366
Palo Alto Veterans Institute for Research Dr. Thomas A. Rando Basic Biology V Molecular regulation of stem cell potency $966,510
University of California, Merced Dr. Kara E McCloskey Basic Biology V Directed Differentiation of Specialized Endothelial Cells $475,686
University of California, San Francisco Dr. Valerie Marie Weaver Basic Biology V Biophysical Determinants of Early Embryonic Stem Cell Fate Specification $1,186,500
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
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