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
University of California, San Francisco Mercedes Paredes ReMIND – Discovery Stage ReMIND Multi-gene modulation to rescue CNS-associated microdeletion syndromes $5,505,959
University of California, San Diego Jonathan Sebat ReMIND – Discovery Stage ReMIND Modeling the genetic basis of psychopathology in schizophrenia and autism $12,703,708
University of California, Los Angeles Aparna Bhaduri ReMIND – Discovery Stage ReMIND Defining Neurovascular Metabolism in Neurodevelopmental and Neuropsychiatric Disorders $10,330,000
University of California, San Francisco Tomasz Nowakowski ReMIND – Discovery Stage ReMIND CIRM Center for Neuropsychiatric Stem Cell Proteomics $13,781,522
Scripps Research Institute Xin Jin ReMIND – Discovery Stage ReMIND Translational epigenomics: dissecting cell type-specific function of neuropsychiatric risk genes in vivo $11,376,314
Scripps Research Institute Stuart A Lipton ReMIND – Discovery Stage ReMIND Multiomic Studies of Idiopathic Intellectual Disability and Autism Spectrum Disorder (ID/ASD) $17,365,387
University of California, San Francisco Alex Pollen ReMIND – Discovery Stage ReMIND Deep phenotyping of human brain organoid models of autism spectrum disorder to unravel disease heterogeneity and develop biomarkers and treatments $12,297,272
Coast to Coast Conferences & Events Calli France Conference – 2025 CIRM Trainee Network Conference 2025 CIRM Trainee Networking Conference $413,145
University of Southern California Dr. Francesca Mariani Conference – 2025 CIRM Trainee Network Conference Manage the 2024 CIRM Annual Trainee Network Conference $348,626
EVERSANA Ms. Liana Rostamian Patient Support Program Patient Support Program to Improve Accessibility to Eligible CIRM-Trial Patients $2,485,000
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Arun Sharma Shared Labs Grant – Enhancing/Expanding SRLs Shared Resource Laboratory for Advanced Stem Cell-Based Modeling $3,991,879
University of California, Santa Barbara Dr. Dennis O. Clegg Dr. Shared Labs Grant – Enhancing/Expanding SRLs Shared Resources Laboratory for Stem Cell-Based Modeling in Stem Cell Biology and Engineering $3,999,995
Gladstone Institutes, J. David Dr. Bruce R. Conklin Shared Labs Grant – Enhancing/Expanding SRLs A Center for Stem Cell Disease Modeling and Therapeutics $4,000,000
Salk Institute for Biological Studies Dr. Fred H Gage Shared Labs Grant – Enhancing/Expanding SRLs Shared Resource Laboratory for Stem Cell-Based Modeling: Resources for Exploring the Biological Underpinnings of Aging and Age-Associated Pathologies $3,641,064
University of Southern California Dr. Nils O. Lindstrom Shared Labs Grant – Enhancing/Expanding SRLs CIRM ASCEND Center – Advancing Stem Cell Education and Novel Discoveries $3,663,163
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. Kathrin Plath Dr. Shared Labs Grant – Enhancing/Expanding SRLs A modular automation approach to stem cell modeling to increase throughput, reproducibility and access $3,999,999
University of California, Irvine Craig M. Walsh Shared Labs Grant – Enhancing/Expanding SRLs Shared Resources Laboratories to Enhance In Vitro Stem Cell Modeling and Training $3,641,396
Humboldt State University Sponsored Programs Foundation Dr Amy Sprowles Shared Labs Grant – Establishing SRLs Cal Poly Humboldt Shared Resource Laboratory for Human Stem Cell-Based Modeling (SRL-hSC) $4,399,888
University of California, Merced Dr. Kara E McCloskey Shared Labs Grant – Establishing SRLs UCM Resources for Expanding Stem cell-derived Tissues and Organs for Regenerative Engineering (RESTORE) $5,396,133
Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation at Harbor – UCLA Medical Center Denise Al Alam Shared Labs Grant – Establishing SRLs Stem cell-based Parternship Resource for Investigating Human Diseases and Training (SPRINT) $5,400,000
City of Hope, Beckman Research Institute Dr. Nadia Carlesso Ph.D., M.D. Shared Labs Grant – Establishing SRLs Stem Cell-based Disease Modeling Shared Resource Laboratory $5,400,000
University of California, Davis Brian Fury Manufacturing Network Grant Creating A Collaborative California Cell and Gene Therapy Manufacturing Network $1,543,522
City of Hope, Beckman Research Institute Dr. Taby Ahsan Manufacturing Network Grant Scalable Expansion for Stem Cell-derived Therapies $1,998,174
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. Dawn Ward Manufacturing Network Grant Enhancing California’s Manufacturing of Leading-Edge Cell & Gene Therapies $2,000,000
University of California, San Francisco Dr Brian Rudolph Shy Manufacturing Network Grant Open Manufacturing Network for Cell and Gene Therapies $1,999,933
University of Southern California Mohamed Abou-el-Enein Manufacturing Network Grant Advancing Cell Therapy Manufacturing Through Collaboration $1,999,964
Stanford University Steve Feldman Manufacturing Network Grant Laboratory for Cell and Gene Medicine: A partner in the California Cell and Gene Therapy Manufacturing Network $2,000,000
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Dr. Dhruv Sareen Manufacturing Network Grant A comprehensive biomanufacturing center solving bottlenecks in cell and gene therapy manufacturing to accelerate new therapies for California patients $2,000,000
University of California, Irvine Dr. Aileen J Anderson Manufacturing Network Grant The UCI GMP Cell and Gene Therapy Manufacturing Facility $2,000,000
University of California, San Diego Dan S Kaufman Manufacturing Network Grant UCSD Advanced Cell Therapy Laboratory $2,000,000
Stanford University Xiaojie Qiu Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Mapping and modeling endothelial cell fate decisions for pulmonary arterial hypertension $1,540,798
Gladstone Institutes, J. David Dr. Steve M. Finkbeiner Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Lewy body dementia, 𝛼-synuclein, and cell-specific mechanisms of neurodegeneration $1,739,760
Minutia, Inc. Katy Digovich Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Immune cloaking of human stem cell-derived insulin-producing cells for curative cell therapy without immunosuppression $1,192,586
University of California, San Francisco Tomasz Nowakowski Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Neuroimmune interactions in the developing human brain $1,626,000
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. M. Carrie Miceli Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Interrogating Satellite Cell and Myofiber Defects and Repair in Human DMD using Single Nuclei/Single Cell RNA Sequencing of Muscle Resident Cells $1,578,000
University of California, San Diego Dr Marianna Alperin Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Harnessing the rejuvenating capacity of pregnancy-associated factors to restore aged stem cell function $1,539,520
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute Aniruddha Deshpande Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Investigating the SGF29/SAGA complex in regulation of normal and cancer stem cells $1,547,999
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Tyler Mark Pierson Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Modeling of GATAD2B-associated neurodevelopmental disorder and NuRDopathies: Investigation of cellular & molecular anomalies altering neurodevelopment $1,318,441
University of California, Los Angeles Michael F Wells Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Village-based identification of human risk factors for viral neuropathogenesis $1,577,448
City of Hope, Beckman Research Institute Qiong Annabel Wang Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Utilizing Age-Specific Adipocyte Progenitor Cells for Cell Therapy in Older Patients $1,508,997
Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation at Harbor – UCLA Medical Center Denise Al Alam Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Modeling and understanding alveolar hypoplasia in Down syndrome using iPSCs-derived alveolar type II cells $1,524,196
University of California, San Francisco Faranak Fattahi Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects hPSC-derived enteric ganglioids for cell therapy in gastrointestinal motility disorders $1,589,307
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. William Lowry Dr. Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Defining the source of dysfunction in monogenic Intellectual Disability Syndrome neurons $1,500,337
University of California, Santa Cruz Maximilian Haeussler Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects An interactive data resource for hypothesis testing in stem cell single-cell gene expression and validation of the results with brain organoids $1,160,126
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. Kathrin Plath Dr. Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Characterization and applications of human blastoids for understanding early human embryogenesis $1,402,137
University of California, San Francisco Tien Peng Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Ex vivo fate mapping of human lung stem cell plasticity in fibrotic disease $1,625,998
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. Brigitte Gomperts Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Overcoming barriers for airway stem cell gene therapy for Cystic Fibrosis $1,472,858
University of California, San Francisco Erik Ullian Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Modeling Retinitis Pigmentosa using patient-derived human iPSC organoids $1,380,543
University of California, Irvine Albert La Spada Ph.D. Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Role of ataxin-3 polyadenylation site selection in ALS neuron toxicity and disease pathogenesis $1,514,416
University of California, Irvine Dr. Brian J. Cummings Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Mapping the spatial and temporal responses of hESC-derived microglia to repeat mild closed head injury to identify therapeutic targets and mechanisms $1,339,685
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