Previous Funding Opportunities
Below is a list of all past Requests for Applications (RFAs) and Program Announcements (PAs), along with summaries of review reports, where applicable.
Recurring Program Announcements
DISC: Discovery Stage Projects
DISC0: The Foundation Awards
DISC1: The Inception Awards
CLIN: Clinical Trial Stage Projects
CLIN1: Late Stage Preclinical Projects
CLIN2: Clinical Trial Stage Projects
CLIN3: Stem Cell Therapy Registration Trials
EDUC: Conference Grants
Past RFAs and PAs
INFR 4: Alpha Clinics Network Expansion Award
EDUC 5: Funding Opportunity for Creating Opportunities through Mentorship and Partnership Across Stem Cell Science (COMPASS)
EDUC 4: Funding Opportunity for "CIRM Scholar" Research Training Awards
EDUC 3: Funding Opportunity for Summer Program To Accelerate Regenerative Medicine Knowledge (SPARK)
EDUC 2: Funding Opportunity For Bridges to Stem Cell Research and Therapy Awards
EDUC 1.11: Funding Opportunity for the 2020 CIRM Grantee Meeting
Special Call for COVID-19 Projects
EDUC 1.10: Funding Opportunity for the 2020 Alpha Stem Cell Clinic Symposium
EDUC 1.9: Funding Opportunity for the 2019 Alpha Stem Cell Clinic Symposium
EDUC 1.8: Funding Opportunity for the 2018 Alpha Stem Cell Clinic Symposium
EDUC 1.7: Funding Opportunity to Manage a Symposium on Pluripotent Stem Cell Manufacturing
INFR4: Alpha Clinics Network Expansion Award
EDUC 1.6: Funding Opportunity for the 2017 Alpha Stem Cell Clinic Annual Symposium
EDUC 1.5: Funding Opportunity to Manage the SPARK Annual Meeting
- Read the RFA (2017)
- Read the RFA (2018)
- Read the RFA (2019)
- Read the RFA (2020)
- Read the RFA (2022)
- Read the RFA (2023)
INFR3: Accelerating Therapies: Public-Private Partnership (ATP3)
- Read the RFA
- CIRM's Development Portfolio (Updated 8.31.16)
EDUC 1.4: Funding Opportunity to Manage the Bridges Annual Meeting
- Read the RFA (2017)
- Read the RFA (2018/2019)
- Read the RFA (2020/2021)
- Read the RFA (2022)
- Read the RFA (2023)
INFR2: Partnering Opportunity to Create a CIRM Translating Center
- Read the RFA
- INFR2: Translating Center Background Presentation
- INFR2: Frequently Asked Questions & CIRM Responses (Updated 7.21.16)
EDUC 1.3: Funding Opportunity for a Lung Regenerative Medicine Workshop
RFA INFR 1: Partnering Opportunity to Create a CIRM Accelerating Center
- Read the RFA (updated 3.1.16)
- Appendix A: Sample Accelerating and Value Added Resources (AVARs) for the Alpha Stem Cell Clinic Network
- INFR1: Accelerating Center Background Presentation
- INFR1: Frequently Asked Questions & CIRM Responses (updated 4.11.16)
RFA DISC 3.1: Genetic Profiling of CIRM’s Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell (hiPSC) Repository to Accelerate Discovery, Diagnostics, and Therapeutic Development
RFA EDUC 1.1: Funding Opportunity to Manage the 2016 Bridges and SPARK Annual Meetings
RFA EDUC 1.2: Funding Opportunity for the 2016 Alpha Clinic Annual Symposium
RFA 15-05: Bridges to Stem Cell Research and Therapy Awards program
RFA 15-06: Summer Program to Accelerate Regenerative Medicine Knowledge (SPARK)
Genomics Initiative: Request for Collaborate Research Projects
PA 14-04: CIRM Extraordinary Supplement Awards
RFA 14-03: CIRM Strategic Partnership IV Awards
RFA 14-02: CIRM Preclinical Development I Awards
PA 14-01: CIRM Accelerated Development Pathway
RFA 13-07: CIRM Alpha Stem Cell Clinics Network: Coordinating and Information Management Center
RFA 13-06: CIRM Alpha Stem Cell Clinics Network: Alpha Stem Cell Clinics
RFA 13-05: CIRM Tools and Technologies III Awards
RFA 13-04: External Innovation Pilot Program
RFA 13-03A/B: CIRM Strategic Partnership III Awards
RFA 13-02: CIRM Basic Biology Awards V
RFA 13-01: CIRM Disease Team Therapy Development III Awards
RFA 12-09: CIRM Strategic Partnership II Awards
PA 12-08: CIRM Patent Assistance Fund Awards
RFA 12-07: CIRM Early Translational IV Research Awards
RFA 12-06: CIRM Stem Cell Genomics Centers of Excellence Awards
RFA 12-05: CIRM Strategic Partnership I Awards
RFA 12-04: CIRM hPSC Repository Award
RFA 12-03: CIRM hiPSC Derivation Award
RFA 12-02: CIRM Tissue Collection for Disease Modeling Awards
RFA 12-01: CIRM New Faculty Physician Scientist Translational Research Awards
RFA 11-04: CIRM Creativity Awards
RFA 11-03: CIRM Basic Biology Awards IV
RFA 11-02: CIRM Early Translational III Research Awards
RFA 10-05: CIRM Disease Team Therapy Development Awards
RFA 10-05: CIRM Disease Team Therapy Development Awards - Part I Planning Award
RFA 10-04: CIRM Basic Biology Awards III
RFA 10-03: CIRM Targeted Clinical Development Awards
RFA 10-02: CIRM Tools and Technologies Awards II
RFA 10-01: CIRM Early Translational II Research Awards
RFA 09-04: CIRM Research Leadership Awards
- RFA
- Cycle 1: Summaries of Review Reports
- Cycle 2: Summaries of Review Reports
- Cycle 8: Summaries of Review Reports
- Cycle 10: Summaries of Review Reports
- Cycle 12: Summaries of Review Reports
- Cycle 14: Summaries of Review Reports
RFA 09-03: CIRM Stem Cell Transplantation Immunology Awards
RFA 09-02: CIRM Basic Biology Awards II
RFA 09-01: CIRM Disease Team Research Awards
RFA 08-07: CIRM Basic Biology Awards I
RFA 08-05 : CIRM Early Translational Research Awards
RFA 08-04: CIRM Bridges to Stem Cell Research Awards
RFA 08-03: CIRM Research Training Program II
RFA 08-02: CIRM Tools and Technologies Awards
RFA 08-01: CIRM New Faculty Awards II
RFA 07-05: CIRM New Cell Lines Awards
RFA 07-04: CIRM Disease Team Planning Awards
RFA 07-03: CIRM Major Facilities Grant Program
RFA 07-02: CIRM New Faculty Awards
RFA 07-01: CIRM Shared Labs and Stem Cell Techniques Course Grant
RFA 06-02: CIRM Comprehensive Research Grant
RFA 06-01: CIRM SEED Grant
RFA 05-01: CIRM Training Grant
- RFA
- Summaries of Review Reports (Type I)
- Summaries of Review Reports (Type II)
- Summaries of Review Reports (Type III)
Latest Press Releases
CIRM-funded research programs are helping turn stem cells into cures. Browse our press release archive below to find out the latest advances. For even more breaking news, visit our blog, The Stem Cellar.
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Workshop Reports
CIRM holds regular scientific workshops and meetings to update the scientific staff and CIRM grantees about particular areas of stem cell and related research.
- Engineering Strategies, Opportunities, and Challenges for Tissue Repair and Regeneration: CIRM Workshop Summary and Recommendati [pdf]
- Cell Therapies for Parkinson’s Disease from Discovery to Clinic [pdf]
- Alpha Stem Cell Clinics: Delivering a New Kind of Medicine [pdf]
- Cerebral Palsy Workshop Report [pdf]