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
Stanford University Dr Michael T Longaker New Cell Lines Derivation and analysis of pluripotent stem cell lines with inherited TGF-b mediated disorders from donated IVF embryos and reprogrammed adult skin fibroblasts $1,406,636
Stanford University Dr. Julie Baker New Cell Lines Derivation of hESC Lines with Disease Lesions $1,404,725
Scripps Research Institute Dr. Sheng Ding Dr. New Cell Lines Derivation of New ICM-stage hESCs $936,973
Gladstone Institutes, J. David Sheng Ding PhD New Cell Lines Derivation of New ICM-stage hESCs $778,859
Gladstone Institutes, J. David Dr. Bruce R. Conklin New Cell Lines Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells for Cardiovascular Diagnostics $1,708,560
Stanford University Dr. Michele Calos New Cell Lines Safe, efficient creation of human induced pluripotent stem cells without the use of retroviruses $1,406,875
University of California, San Francisco Dr. Susan J Fisher PhD New Cell Lines Optimization of Human Embryonic Stem Cell Derivation Techniques and Production/Distribution of GMP-Grade Lines $1,383,419
University of California, San Francisco Dr. Miguel Ramalho-Santos New Cell Lines Somatic cell age and memory in the generation of iPS cells $1,307,201
University of California, San Francisco Dr. Long-cheng Li New Cell Lines Induction of pluripotent stem cells by small RNA-guided transcriptional activation $1,368,461
Gladstone Institutes, J. David Robert V Farese New Cell Lines Establishment of Frontotemporal Dementia Patient-Specific Induced Pluripotent Stem (iPS) Cell Lines with Defined Genetic Mutations $1,696,424
Salk Institute for Biological Studies Dr. Fred H Gage New Cell Lines Development of Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells for Modeling Human Disease $1,737,720
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. Amander Clark Dr. New Cell Lines Generation of Pluripotent Cell Lines from Human Embryos $1,167,416
University of California, Irvine Dr. Leslie M Thompson New Cell Lines New Cell Lines for Huntington’s Disease $1,302,526
University of California, San Diego Dr. Steven F Dowdy New Cell Lines Protein transduction of transcription factors: a non-genetic approach to generate new pluripotent cell lines from human skin. $1,073,585
University of California, Davis Dr. Mark Zern Comprehensive Grant An in vitro and in vivo comparison among three different human hepatic stem cell populations. $2,251,223
Stanford University Professor Irving L Weissman MD Comprehensive Grant Prospective isolation of hESC-derived hematopoietic and cardiomyocyte stem cells $2,471,386
University of California, San Francisco Dr. Andrew D. Leavitt MD Comprehensive Grant Understanding hESC-based Hematopoiesis for Therapeutic Benefit $2,460,822
University of California, Irvine Dr Hans S Keirstead Comprehensive Grant hESC-Derived Motor Neurons For the Treatment of Cervical Spinal Cord Injury $2,158,445
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. Jerome A. Zack Ph.D. Comprehensive Grant Human Embryonic Stem Cell Therapeutic Strategies to Target HIV Disease $2,401,903
University of California, San Diego Dr Yang Xu Comprehensive Grant Mechanisms to maintain the self-renewal and genetic stability of human embryonic stem cells $2,467,200
University of California, Davis Dr. Alice F Tarantal Comprehensive Grant Preclinical Model for Labeling, Transplant, and In Vivo Imaging of Differentiated Human Embryonic Stem Cells $2,166,757
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute Dr. Stuart A Lipton Comprehensive Grant MEF2C-Directed Neurogenesis From Human Embryonic Stem Cells $2,832,000
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
Scripps Research Institute Peter G. Schultz Research Training Grant Training Scholars in Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research $5,304,759
University of California, San Diego Professor Alysson R Muotri Research Training Grant Interdisciplinary Stem Cell Training Grant at UCSD III $5,366,188
Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles Dr Ching-Ling Lien Ph.D. Research Training Grant CIRM Training Program for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Research $5,373,242
University of California, Davis Dr Jan A Nolta Research Training Grant CIRM Cell and Gene Therapy Training Program 2.0 $5,013,550
University of California, Berkeley Dirk Hockemeyer Research Training Grant Training the Next Generation of Biologists and Engineers for Regenerative Medicine $5,327,980
Stanford University Tushar Desai Research Training Grant CIRM Scholar Training Program $5,347,815
City of Hope, Beckman Research Institute Dr. Michael E. Barish Ph, D. Research Training Grant Research Training Program in Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine $5,234,731
Gladstone Institutes, J. David Dr. Bruce R. Conklin Research Training Grant CIRM Regenerative Medicine Research Training Program $5,373,742
University of California, Santa Cruz Dr. Camilla Forsberg Research Training Grant CIRM Training Program in Systems Biology of Stem Cells $5,278,566
University of Southern California Dr. Francesca Mariani Research Training Grant Training Program Bridging Stem Cell Research with Clinical Applications in Regenerative Medicine $5,373,742
University of California, Los Angeles William Lowry Research Training Grant UCLA Training Program in Stem Cell Biology $5,373,742
The Regents of the University of California on behalf of its Riverside Campus Dr. Prue Talbot Research Training Grant TRANSCEND – Training Program to Advance Interdisciplinary Stem Cell Research, Education, and Workforce Diversity $5,344,306
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Wafa Tawackoli Research Training Grant CIRM Training Program in Translational Regenerative Medicine $5,373,075
University of California, San Diego Dr. Steven F Dowdy Discovery Research Projects Development of Anti-COVID RNAi Therapeutics Using Human iPSC-Derived Alveolar Epithelial Cells $150,000
Celularity Inc. William van der Touw Clinical Trial Stage Projects A phase I/II study of human placental hematopoietic stem cell derived natural killer cells (CYNK-001) for the treatment of adults with COVID-19 $315,000
University of California, San Francisco Dr. Michael Matthay MD Clinical Trial Stage Projects Mesenchymal Stromal Cells for ARDS (COVID positive and COVID negative) $699,798
City of Hope, Beckman Research Institute Prof. John A. Zaia Clinical Trial Stage Projects Evaluation and Characterization of SARS-CoV-2 Antibody in Convalescent Volunteer Plasma Donors for Potential Therapeutic Use $999,999
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. Vaithilingaraja Arumugaswami PhD Therapeutic Translational Research Projects COVID-19 Antiviral Therapy to Block Direct Cell Injury and Associated Tissue Damage $349,999
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute Dr. Evan Y. Snyder Discovery Research Projects Using hiPSC-derived lung organoids, a clinically-relevant system, to validate & winnow a list of approved drugs that inhibit SARS-CoV-2 cytopathy $219,006
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. Lili Yang Discovery Research Projects Battling COVID-19 Using Off-The-Shelf HSC-Engineered iNKT Cells $250,000
University of Southern California Preet M Chaudhary Discovery Research Projects Chimeric Antigen Receptor Targeting Spike Glycoprotein of SARS-cov2 $248,125
University of California, San Diego Dr Karen Christman Discovery Research Projects Pro-healing biomaterial for treating lung inflammation associated with COVID-19 $221,758
City of Hope, Beckman Research Institute Dr Jianhua Yu Discovery Research Projects Persistent Off-the-Shelf meACE2-CAR-IL-15 NK Cells Derived from CD34(+) Cord Blood Stem Cells to Prevent and Treat COVID-19 $150,000
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