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
Stanford University Dr. Steven Edward Artandi Basic Biology II Self-renewal and senescence in iPS cells derived from patients with a stem cell disease $931,285
Salk Institute for Biological Studies Ronald Mark Evans Basic Biology II Molecular Characterization and Functional Exploration of Nuclear Receptors in hiPSCs $1,712,880
Calimmune, Inc. Geoff Symonds Disease Team Research I GENE-MODIFIED HEMATOPOIETIC STEM/PROGENITOR CELL BASED THERAPY FOR HIV DISEASE $8,278,722
Stanford University Dr. Gary Steinberg Disease Team Research I Embryonic-Derived Neural Stem Cells for Treatment of Motor Sequelae following Sub-cortical Stroke $17,244,851
University of California, San Diego Dr. Lawrence S. B. Goldstein Disease Team Research I Stem Cell-Derived Astrocyte Precursor Transplants in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis $5,694,308
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. Donald B. Kohn Disease Team Research I Stem Cell Gene Therapy for Sickle Cell Disease $8,833,695
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. Irvin SY Chen Disease Team Research I HPSC based therapy for HIV disease using RNAi to CCR5. $9,905,604
ViaCyte, Inc. Allan Robins Disease Team Research I Cell Therapy for Diabetes $0
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Eduardo Marbán Disease Team Research I Autologous cardiac-derived cells for advanced ischemic cardiomyopathy $5,560,232
University of California, San Francisco Dr. Mitchel S Berger Disease Team Research I Stem Cell-Mediated Oncocidal Gene Therapy of Glioblastoma (GBM) $6,214,914
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
Human BioMolecular Research Institute Dr. John R Cashman Ph.D. Inception – Discovery Stage Research Projects Human Pancreatic Cancer Stem Cells: Developing a Novel Drug for Cancer Eradication $303,785
Stanford University Professor Hiromitsu Nakauchi Inception – Discovery Stage Research Projects Optimizing self-renewal signaling kinetics to stabilize ex vivo hematopoietic stem cell expansion $210,906
University of California, San Diego Gerald P Morris Inception – Discovery Stage Research Projects Identification of antigenic neo-epitopes from in vitro reprogrammed human tissue precursors for regenerative therapy $193,500
University of California, Davis Alyssa Panitch PhD Inception – Discovery Stage Research Projects Development of treatments to improve healing of ischemic wounds $235,099
Stanford University Guillem Pratx Inception – Discovery Stage Research Projects Novel metabolic labeling method for tracking stem cells to irradiated salivary glands using PET $229,227
University of California, San Francisco Semil P Choksi Inception – Discovery Stage Research Projects Generation of human airway stem cells by direct transcriptional reprogramming for disease modeling and regeneration $238,408
University of California, Irvine Janet E Baulch Inception – Discovery Stage Research Projects An exosome-based translational strategy to mitigate Alzheimer’s disease neuropathology $157,650
University of California, San Diego Tannishtha Reya Inception – Discovery Stage Research Projects Reprogramming human stem cells for blood cell generation $210,060
Stanford University Professor Helen M. Blau PhD Inception – Discovery Stage Research Projects Prodrug innovation to target muscle stem cells and enhance muscle regeneration $235,834
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute Dr Alessandra Sacco Inception – Discovery Stage Research Projects Generation of expandable, self-renewing muscle stem cells for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy $252,000
University of California, San Francisco Sonja Schrepfer Inception – Discovery Stage Research Projects Hypo-immunogenic cardiac patches for myocardial regeneration $235,818
University of Southern California Biju B. Thomas Inception – Discovery Stage Research Projects A Novel Tissue Engineering Technique to Repair Degenerated Retina $215,133
Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles Dr. Senta Georgia Inception – Discovery Stage Research Projects Developing a personalized approach to beta cell replacement for patients with a genetic form of diabetes $179,995
Vitalant Research Institute Dr. Marcus Oliver Muench Inception – Discovery Stage Research Projects Modulating Liver Sinusoidal Endothelial Cell Permeability to Enhance Engraftment of Endothelial Cell Progenitors for the Treatment of Hemophilia A $180,000
Stanford University Jeffrey L Goldberg Inception – Discovery Stage Research Projects Embryonic Stem Cells for Corneal Endothelial Degeneration $235,836
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. Owen N Witte M.D. Inception – Discovery Stage Research Projects Identification of stem cell surface markers as potential therapeutic targets for advanced prostate cancer $209,160
University of California, San Diego Professor Alysson R Muotri Inception – Discovery Stage Research Projects Reverse transcriptase inhibitors as a novel therapeutic approach for neurological autoimmune disorders $210,060
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. April Pyle Ph.D. Inception – Discovery Stage Research Projects Novel Platforms to Enhance In Vivo Delivery of Skeletal Muscle Progenitor Cells from Human Pluripotent Stem Cells $230,400
University of California, Los Angeles Bennett G Novitch Inception – Discovery Stage Research Projects Organoid Modeling of Human Cortical Microcircuits $208,916
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Professor Clive Niels Svendsen Inception – Discovery Stage Research Projects Blood Brain Barrier (BBB)-on-Chip: Development and validation of a novel iPS-based microfluidic model of the human BBB $241,992
University of California, San Francisco Dr. Holger F Willenbring Inception – Discovery Stage Research Projects Generation of bile duct-competent transplantable human liver organoids $206,460
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