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
City of Hope, Beckman Research Institute Prof. Karen S Aboody M.D. Disease Team Research I Stem Cell-mediated Therapy for High-grade Glioma: Toward Phase I-II Clinical Trials $17,890,623
Stanford University Dr. Alfred T Lane Disease Team Research I iPS Cell-Based Treatment of Dominant Dystrophic Epidermolysis Bullosa $11,039,208
Stanford University Professor Irving L Weissman MD Disease Team Research I Development of Therapeutic Antibodies Targeting Human Acute Myeloid Leukemia Stem Cells $18,759,276
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. Dennis J Slamon Disease Team Research I Therapeutic Opportunities To Target Tumor Initiating Cells in Solid Tumors $19,979,660
City of Hope, Beckman Research Institute Prof. John A. Zaia Disease Team Research I ZINC FINGER NUCLEASE-BASED STEM CELL THERAPY FOR AIDS $14,536,969
University of Southern California Mark Salman Humayun Disease Team Research I Stem cell based treatment strategy for Age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD) $18,904,916
University of California, San Diego Dr. Dennis A Carson Disease Team Research I Development of Highly Active Anti-Leukemia Stem Cell Therapy (HALT) $19,999,826
University of California, San Diego Dr. Gene Wei-Ming Yeo Basic Biology I RNA Binding Protein-mediated Post-transcriptional Networks Regulating HPSC Pluripotency $1,308,901
University of California, San Diego Karl H. Willert Basic Biology I WNT signaling and the control of cell fate decisions in human pluripotent stem cells. $1,329,298
University of California, Davis Dr. Min Zhao Basic Biology I Directing migration of human stem cells with electric fields $816,228
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. Michael A. Teitell Basic Biology I Mitochondrial Metabolism in hESC and hiPSC Differentiation, Reprogramming, and Cancer $1,323,029
University of Southern California Dr. Martin Pera Basic Biology I The stem cell microenvironment in the maintenance of pluripotency and reprogramming $1,325,723
Stanford University Dr. Julien Sage Basic Biology I The retinoblastoma (RB) gene family in cellular reprogramming $1,357,085
Stanford University Dr. Susan K McConnell Basic Biology I Identification and characterization of human ES-derived DA neuronal subtypes $1,404,853
University of California, Los Angeles Bennett G Novitch Basic Biology I Molecular Characterization of hESC and hIPSC-Derived Spinal Motor Neurons $1,228,278
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. Robb Maclellan Dr. Basic Biology I Human Cardiovascular Progenitors, their Niches and Control of Self-renewal and Cell Fate $917,667
University of Southern California Dr. Wange Lu Basic Biology I Defining the molecular mechanisms of somatic cell reprogramming $1,365,580
Stanford University Professor Helen M. Blau PhD Basic Biology I Molecular Mechanisms of Reprogramming towards Pluripotency $1,408,332
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. Luisa Iruela-Arispe Basic Biology I Molecular Characterization and Functional Exploration of Hemogenic Endothelium $1,371,477
Stanford University Dr. Theo D. Palmer PhD Research Training II Stanford CIRM Training Program $7,017,629
University of California, San Diego Dr Sylvia Evans Research Training II Interdisciplinary Stem Cell Training Program at UCSD II $7,432,600
Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles Dr. David Warburton Research Training II CHLA Stem Cell Training Grant $5,020,920
University of California, Los Angeles Kenneth Dorshkind Research Training II UCLA CIRM Research Training Program II $7,790,488
Scripps Research Institute Dr. Ulrich Mueller Research Training II Training Stem Cell Researchers at the Chemistry-Biology Interface $3,697,326
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute Dr Alessandra Sacco Research Training II Type III CIRM Stem Cell Research Training Program $2,781,376
Gladstone Institutes, J. David Dr. Robert W Mahley Research Training II Gladstone CIRM Scholars Program $4,869,300
Buck Institute for Age Research Dr. Xianmin Zeng Research Training II CIRM Research Training Program in Stem Cells and Aging $1,472,416
University of California, Davis Dr. Frederick J Meyers MD Research Training II UC Davis Stem Cell Training Program $4,838,291
University of California, Santa Barbara Dr. Dennis O. Clegg Research Training II Training Program in Stem Cell Biology and Engineering $2,448,823
University of California, San Francisco Dr. Susan J Fisher PhD Research Training II Training Program in Stem Cell Research at UCSF $7,814,027
University of California, Berkeley Ellen Robey Research Training II Interdisciplinary Training in Stem Cell Biology, Engineering and Medicine $6,888,557
University of Southern California Dr. Robert E Maxson Research Training II CIRM Stem Cell Biology Training Program $5,827,817
Salk Institute for Biological Studies Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte Research Training II Training in the Biology of Human Embryonic Stem Cells and Emerging Technologies II $2,886,221
University of California, Santa Cruz Dr. David Haussler Research Training II UCSC CIRM Training Program in Systems Biology of Stem cells $4,397,002
University of California, Irvine Dr. Peter John Donovan Dr. Research Training II UCI-CIRM Research Training Program II $6,067,550
City of Hope, Beckman Research Institute Dr. Michael E. Barish Ph, D. Research Training II City of Hope Research Training Program in Stem Cell Biology $2,197,782
Geron Corporation Dr. Jane Stephanie Lebkowski Dr. Targeted Clinical Development Evaluation of Safety and Preliminary Efficacy of Escalating Doses of GRNOPC1 in Subacute Spinal Cord Injury $0
City of Hope, Beckman Research Institute Dr. Jiing-Kuan Yee Ph.D. Basic Biology III Use of human iPS cells to study spinal muscular atrophy $1,268,868
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. Yi Eve Sun Basic Biology III Studying neurotransmission of normal and diseased human ES cell-derived neurons in vivo $1,382,400
University of California, San Diego Dr. Deborah H Spector Dr. Basic Biology III Viral-host interactions affecting neural differentiation of human progenitors $1,372,660
Stanford University Dr. Aaron J Hsueh Basic Biology III Correlated time-lapse imaging and single cell molecular analysis of human embryo development $1,259,733
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. Kathrin Plath Dr. Basic Biology III Discovery of mechanisms that control epigenetic states in human reprogramming and pluripotent cells $1,364,598
University of California, San Diego Dr. David A. Cheresh Basic Biology III Molecular basis of human ES cell neurovascular differentiation and co-patterning $1,359,996
University of California, San Diego Dr. Anirvan Ghosh Dr. Basic Biology III Investigation of synaptic defects in autism using patient-derived induced pluripotent stem cells $843,597
University of California, San Diego Dr. Kun Zhang Basic Biology III Functional characterization of mutational load in nuclear reprogramming and differentiation $1,295,318
University of California, San Francisco Jason Harris Pomerantz Basic Biology III Phenotypic Analysis of Human ES Cell-Derived Muscle Stem Cells $1,381,296
Scripps Research Institute Dr. Joel M Gottesfeld Basic Biology III Triplet Repeat Instability in Human iPSCs $1,705,494
University of California, San Diego Dr. Gene Wei-Ming Yeo Basic Biology III Neural and general splicing factors control self-renewal, neural survival and differentiation $1,287,619
Gladstone Institutes, J. David Dr. Deepak Srivastava Basic Biology III Mechanisms of Direct Cardiac Reprogramming $1,572,380
Stanford University Sean M. Wu Basic Biology III Elucidating Molecular Basis of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy with Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells $1,260,537
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