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 Diego Dr. Mana M Parast New Faculty II Molecular Mechanisms of Trophoblast Stem Cell Specification and Self-Renewal $3,077,918
University of Southern California Dr. Gage Crump New Faculty II Skeletogenic Neural Crest Cells in Embryonic Development and Adult Regeneration of the Jaw $2,247,403
University of California, San Diego Catriona Jamieson New Faculty II Derivation and Characterization of Myeloproliferative Disorder Stem Cells from Human ES Cells $3,065,572
Stanford University Dr. Ching-Pin Chang New Faculty II VEGF signaling in adventitial stem cells in vascular physiology and disease $3,005,695
Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research Dr. Bing Ren New Faculty II Mechanisms of chromatin dynamics at enhancers during ES cell differentiation $1,726,564
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. Brigitte N Gomperts New Faculty II Stem Cells in Lung Cancer $2,381,572
University of California, Davis Dr. Paul S. Knoepfler New Faculty II Molecular mechanisms governing hESC and iPS cell self-renewal and pluripotency $2,157,255
University of California, San Francisco Dr. Jeremy Reiter New Faculty II High throughput modeling of human neurodegenerative diseases in embryonic stem cells $2,259,092
Gladstone Institutes, J. David Dr. Benoit Bruneau New Faculty II Induction of cardiogenesis in pluripotent cells via chromatin remodeling factors $2,723,653
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute Dr. Zhuohua Zhang New Cell Lines Derivation of Parkinson’s Disease Coded-Stem Cells (PD-SCs) $1,556,448
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. Jerome A. Zack Ph.D. New Cell Lines Generation of clinical grade human iPS cells $1,341,000
Stanford University Dr. Renee Reijo Pera PhD New Cell Lines Derivation and comparative analysis of human pluripotent ESCs, iPSCs and SSCs: Convergence to an embryonic phenotype $1,409,243
University of Southern California Dr. Martin Pera New Cell Lines New Technology for the Derivation of Human Pluripotent Stem Cell Lines for Clinical Use $1,266,134
Stanford University Michael T. Longaker M.D. 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
Stanford University Dr. Stefan Heller Comprehensive Grant Generation of inner ear sensory cells from human ES cells toward a cure for deafness $2,330,371
University of California, Irvine Dr. Peter John Donovan Comprehensive Grant Improved hES Cell Growth and Differentiation $2,381,713
Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles Dr. Gay M. Crooks Comprehensive Grant Regulated Expansion of Lympho-hematopoietic Stem and Progenitor Cells from Human Embryonic Stem Cells (hESC) $575,994
University of California, Los Angeles UCLA Gay M Crooks Comprehensive Grant Regulated Expansion of Lympho-hematopoietic Stem and Progenitor Cells from Human Embryonic Stem Cells (hESC) $1,653,416
University of California, San Francisco Dr. Samuel Pleasure Comprehensive Grant Human stem cell derived oligodendrocytes for treatment of stroke and MS $2,459,235
University of California, San Francisco Dr. Harold S Bernstein Dr. Comprehensive Grant Modeling Myocardial Therapy with Human Embryonic Stem Cells $2,134,694
Stanford University Dr. Roel Nusse Comprehensive Grant Guiding the developmental program of human embryonic stem cells by isolated Wnt factors $1,710,462
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. Guoping Fan Dr. Comprehensive Grant Epigenetic gene regulation during the differentiation of human embryonic stem cells: Impact on neural repair $2,412,995
University of California, San Diego Prof. Martin Marsala Comprehensive Grant Spinal ischemic paraplegia: modulation by human embryonic stem cell implant. $2,356,090
Gladstone Institutes, J. David Dr. Deepak Srivastava Comprehensive Grant microRNA Regulation of Cardiomyocyte Differentiation from Human Embryonic Stem Cells $2,994,719
Salk Institute for Biological Studies Dr. Fred H Gage Comprehensive Grant Molecular and Cellular Transitions from ES Cells to Mature Functioning Human Neurons $2,749,293
Stanford University Dr. Renee Reijo Pera PhD Comprehensive Grant Human oocyte development for genetic, pharmacological and reprogramming applications $2,298,411
University of California, San Francisco Dr. Susan J Fisher PhD Comprehensive Grant Constructing a fate map of the human embryo $2,430,487
University of California, Irvine Dr. Douglas C. Wallace Comprehensive Grant The Dangers of Mitochondrial DNA Heteroplasmy in Stem Cells Created by Therapeutic Cloning $1,790,133
University of California, San Francisco Dr. Arnold Kriegstein MD, PhD Comprehensive Grant Derivation of Inhibitory Nerve Cells from Human Embryonic Stem Cells $2,410,874
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