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Objective
This Program Announcement (PA) will support the development and conduct of scientific conferences relevant to stem cell research. A scientific conference is defined as an organized event where persons physically assemble to exchange scientific information or explore a defined scientific subject. Support of such conferences is contingent on the fiscal and programmatic priorities of CIRM. Conference grant awards are open to non-profit organizations in California.
CIRM plans to allocate up to $300,000 annually for this program. The total amount awarded and the number of awards will depend upon the number, quality, timing, and costs of the proposals received, and on CIRM programmatic priorities.The maximum award (i.e., total for all years requested) that will be supported under this PA is the lesser of $50,000 or 50% of the total conference budget, unless otherwise approved by the ICOC.
Application Instructions and Forms
Applications for conference grants will be accepted, reviewed and approved periodically as indicated in the table below. The application form is available through the CIRM Grants Management Portal at https://grants.cirm.ca.gov/login/login .
The application for CIRM Conference Grants consists of two parts:
- Part A: Application Information and Proposal [Web-based document]
- Part B: Supporting Documentation
The Conference Grant application must be submitted by the Program Director via the CIRM Grants Management Portal, as follows:
- Go to the Grants Management Portal (https://grants.cirm.ca.gov/login/upgrade_browser) and log in with your existing CIRM Username and Password. If you do not have a Username, Click on the “New User” link and follow the instructions to create a CIRM Username and password.
- After logging in, click on the “Open Programs” tab and look for the section labeled “RFAs and Programs Open for Applications“. Click on the “Start a Grant Application” link corresponding to the “PA 08-06 CIRM Conference Awards: Grant Application” section.
- Using the drop down menu, identify the Institution from which you intend to apply and click “Save“.
- Complete each section of the application by clicking on the appropriate link and following the posted instructions. Part B of the application must be uploaded by clicking on the “Upload Required Documents” link. The signature page template (an html print screen) can also be found and submitted in the “Upload Required Documents” section.
- To submit your application, click on the “Done with Grant Application” button. The “Done with Grant Application” button will be enabled when all required sections have been completed and the signature page uploaded. Please note that once this has been selected, you will no longer be able to make changes to your Grant Application.
- To confirm submission of your Grant Application, go back to your home page and check the list under the section labled “Your Submitted Applications“. You will see your Grant Application number and meeting title entered for PA 08-06 CIRM Conference Awards: Grant Application uder this section once the submission process has been completed.
Application Submission Deadlines
| Conference Start Date |
Submission Deadline |
| July – September 2013 |
July 31, 2013 |
| October – December 2013 |
August 21, 2013 |
| January – March 2014 |
October 1, 2013 |
| April – June 2014 |
January 1, 2014 |
| July – September 2014 |
April 1, 2014 |
| October – December 2014 |
July 1, 2014 |
| January – March 2015 |
October 1, 2014 |
| April – June 2015 |
January 1, 2015 |
For information about this program please contact:
Patricia Chavira
Grants Review Specialist
California Institute for Regenerative Medicine
Email: tchavira@cirm.ca.gov
Phone: (415) 396-9109
FAX: (415) 396-9142
Rahul Thakar, Ph.D.
Science Officer
California Institute for Regenerative Medicine
Email: rthakar@cirm.ca.gov
Phone: (415) 396-9259
ICOC Approval:
February 9, 2015
Awards
| Institution |
Investigator |
Grant Title |
Award Value |
| University of California, Davis | Randi Hagerman | Pathways of Neurodevelopmental Disorders (C8) |
$29,939 |
| Stanford University | Dr. Joseph C. Wu | Cardiovascular Tissue Engineering Symposium |
$25,000 |
| Ocular Research Symposia Foundation, Inc. | Dr. Gerald Chader | SIGHT RESTORATION THROUGH STEM CELL THERAPY |
$20,000 |
| University of Southern California | Qing Liu-Michael | USC/UCSF/UCLA Tri-Institutional Stem Cell Retreat |
$5,000 |
| Vitalant Research Institute | Dr. Shibani Pati | Cellular Therapies in Trauma and Critical Care Medicine: Forging New Frontiers |
$40,000 |
| City of Hope, Beckman Research Institute | Fouad R Kandeel | 15th Annual Rachmiel Levine Diabetes and Obesity Symposium |
$20,000 |
| University of California, Davis | Dr. Alice F Tarantal | 13th Annual Gene Therapy Symposium for Heart, Lung, and Blood Diseases |
$10,000 |
| Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine | Dr. Edward Holmes | Stem Cell Meeting on the Mesa |
$40,000 |
| Gordon Research Conferences | Leonard I. Zon | 2015 Gordon Research Conference: Stem Cells & Cancer |
$20,000 |
| University of California, San Francisco | Dr Diana Jean Laird | The 2014 Santa Cruz Developmental Biology Meeting |
$3,000 |
| University of California, San Diego | Shu Chien | 10th Annual UC Systemwide Bioengineering Symposium |
$8,000 |
| University of California, San Diego | Shu Chien | The 14th UC Systemwide Bioengineering Symposium |
$5,000 |
| University of California, San Francisco | Dr. Emmanuelle Passegue | CA-HSCI 1st Generation Stem Cell PI Meeting |
$20,000 |
| University of California, San Francisco | Dr. Ophir Klein MD, PhD | Stem Cells Craniofacial Development and Disease |
$4,500 |
| University of California, San Diego | Prof. John M. Ravits | Cell Therapy for amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) -Testing the Limits: What should we use as preclinical standards of clinical trials? |
$7,193 |
| Children’s Neurobiological Solutions (CNS) Foundation | Alex Richmond | The Best Next Steps: Setting a Path for Advancing Pediatric Neurology |
$10,000 |
| Vitalant Research Institute | Shibani Pati | Cell Therapies in Trauma and Critical Care: Barriers in Translation from Pre-clinical to Clinical Development |
$18,440 |
| Research for Cure | Marilyn Smith | Working 2 Walk Science & Advocacy Symposium |
$22,113 |
| University of Southern California | Kathy Rich | The Stem Cell Niche in Development and Regeneration |
$7,476 |
| Buck Institute for Age Research | Victoria Lunyak | Stem Cell Research and Aging |
$30,000 |
| Cedars-Sinai Medical Center | Professor Clive Niels Svendsen | California ALS Summit 2012 |
$6,825 |
| International Symposium on Neural Regeneration, Inc. | Roger Madison | 14th International Symposium on Neural Regeneration |
$20,000 |
| University of California, Los Angeles | Dr. Martina Wiedau-Pazos | California ALS Summit 2011 |
$13,300 |
| Brain Mapping Foundation | Dr. Babak Kateb | 8th Annual World Congress for Brain, Spinal Cord Mapping and Image Guided Therapy at Mission Bay Conference Center of UCSF School of Medicine |
$17,200 |
| University of California, Santa Barbara | Francis J. Doyle | 12th Annual Systemwide Bioengineering Symposium |
$15,000 |
| University of California, Berkeley | Dr. Song Li | University of California Systemwide Bioengineering Symposium 2012 |
$25,200 |
| Cedars-Sinai Medical Center | Dr. John Yu | First Annual Stem Cell Therapies for Neurological Disorders: Overcoming the Current Barriers to Clinical Translation, April 30 (special stem cell program for high school students on April 28) |
$18,500 |
| University of California, Santa Cruz | Dr. Camilla Forsberg | UCSC Frontiers of Stem Cells and Aging Symposium |
$24,405 |
| Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine | Lawrence Goldstein | The Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine Symposium and the investor and Partnering Forum at Stem Cells on the Mesa |
$44,000 |
| University of California, Los Angeles | Dr. Tatiana Segura | 2013 Materials Research Society (MRS) Spring Meeting Symposium
“Design of Cell Instructive Materials” |
$4,000 |
| University of California, San Diego | Dong-Er Zhang | International RUNX Workshop |
$24,000 |
| University of California, Irvine | Dr. Peter J Donovan | Systems Biology of Stem Cells |
$25,000 |
| University of California, San Francisco | Dr. Arnold Kriegstein MD, PhD | UCSF Frontiers of Neural Stem Cells Symposium |
$35,000 |
| Gladstone Institutes, J. David | Dr. Deepak Srivastava | ISSCR – Roddenberry International Symposium on Cellular reprogramming |
$43,000 |
| Vitalant Research Institute | Elizabeth Read | Translation of Stem Cell Therapies: Strategies and Best Practices for PreClinical Developments |
$25,000 |
| Vitalant Research Institute | Elizabeth Read | Translation of Stem Cell Therapies: Best Practices and Regulatory Considerations |
$30,000 |
| International Society for Stem Cell Research | Professor Irving L Weissman MD | ISSCR 8th Annual Meeting – San Francisco |
$62,475 |
| University of California, Davis | Dr. Alice F Tarantal | 10th Annual Gene Therapy Symposium for Heart, Lung, and Blood Diseases |
$18,300 |
| University of California, Davis | Dr. Alice F Tarantal | 9th Annual Gene Therapy Symposium for Heart, Lung and Blood Diseases |
$12,000 |
| University of California, Davis | Dr. Alice F Tarantal | 11th Annual Gene Therapy Symposium for Heart, Lung, and Blood Diseases |
$16,850 |
| University of California, San Diego | Dr. Lawrence S. B. Goldstein | San Diego Stem Cell Science Education Symposium at UCSD |
$6,237 |
| University of California, Los Angeles | Dr. Irvin SY Chen | Stem Cells: A New Avenue of HIV Research and New Approaches to HIV Treatment |
$24,456 |
| Gordon Research Conferences | Catriona Jamieson | 2011 Gordon Conference on Stem Cells and Cancer |
$40,000 |
| Stanford University | Hank Greely | Stem Cell Policy: Understanding the Scientific and Legal Challenges Ahead |
$5,838 |
| Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine | Edward Holmes | Stem Cell Meeting on the Mesa: 6th Annual Scientific Symposium & 1st Annual Investor and Partnering Forum |
$40,000 |
| Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine | Edward Holmes | Stem Cell Meeting on Mesa |
$40,000 |
| Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine | Edward Holmes | Stem Cell Meeting on the Mesa |
$40,000 |
| City of Hope, Beckman Research Institute | Richard Jove | Innovative Partnerships: Bringing Stem Cell Discoveries to the Clinic |
$14,994 |
| City of Hope, Beckman Research Institute | Richard Jove | Innovation and Translational Stem Cell Therapy for Diabetes and Neurological Diseases: Paving the way for real life solutions |
$14,878 |
| City of Hope, Beckman Research Institute | Richard Jove | New Approaches in Cell Based Therapies |
$20,000 |
| University of California, San Francisco | Dr. Brian Black | Weinstein Cardiovascular Development Conference |
$35,000 |
| City of Hope, Beckman Research Institute | Fouad R Kandeel | 2012 Rachmiel Levine Diabetes and Obesity Symposium: Advances in Diabetes Research |
$15,000 |
| City of Hope, Beckman Research Institute | Fouad R Kandeel | 2011 Rachmiel Levine Diabetes and Obesity Symposium: Advances in Diabetes Research |
$15,000 |
| City of Hope, Beckman Research Institute | Fouad R Kandeel | 2013 Rachmiel Diabetes and Obesity Levine Symposium – Advances in Diabetes Research |
$27,750 |
| City of Hope, Beckman Research Institute | Fouad R Kandeel | 2009 Rachmiel Levine Diabetes and Obesity Symposium: Advances in Diabetes Biology, Immunology and Cell Therapy |
$15,000 |
| Stanford University | Dr. Thomas A. Rando MD, PhD | Keystone Symposia, ‘The Life of a Stem Cell: From Birth to Death’ |
$50,000 |
| California Institute of Technology | Paul H. Patterson | World Stem Cell Summit |
$50,000 |
| Children’s Hospital of Orange County | Dr. Philip H Schwartz | Stem Cell Therapies for Pediatric Diseases and Injuries: A Critial Evaluation |
$786 |
| Gladstone Institutes, J. David | Dr. Steve M. Finkbeiner | THE 5TH ANNUAL CALIFORNIA ALS PAC10 AND RESEARCH NETWORK MEETING |
$9,529 |
| University of California, Irvine | Dr. Michelle Khine | UC Systemwide Bioengineering Symposium |
$7,525 |
| Biocom Institute | Jennifer Landress | The 2014 BIO International Convention |
$50,000 |
| Stanford University | Dr. Joseph C. Wu | Cardiovascular Regenerative Medicine Symposium |
$9,000 |
| University of California, San Francisco | Jason R. Rock | Tri-Institutional Stem Cell Retreat |
$3,500 |
| University of California, San Francisco | Dr. Tippi C. MacKenzie | In Utero Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation and Maternal-Fetal Tolerance |
$17,526 |
| Stanford University | Dr. Fan Yang PhD | 2014 Materials Research Society (MRS) Spring Meeting:
Symposium Y: Biomaterials for Biomolecule Delivery and Understanding Cell-Niche Interactions |
$10,000 |
| Human Organ Project | Anita Caufield | Regenerative Medicine Foundation 2014 Conference |
$50,000 |
| University of California, San Francisco | Jeffrey Rosenfeld | California ALS Research Summit 2014 |
$8,563 |
| University of California, Davis | Dr. Mark Yarborough PhD | Stem Cell Research for Neurological Disorders: A Case Study in Ethical and Policy Issues in ALS Research |
$1,020 |
| University of California, San Francisco | Regis Kelly | The Science of Staying Younger Longer |
$6,500 |
| Gladstone Institutes, J. David | Dr. Deepak Srivastava | Keystone Symposia, “Stem Cells and Reprogramming” |
$50,000 |
| Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine | Dr. Edward Holmes | The Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine’s Scientific Symposium and the Regen Med Partnering Forum at Stem Cell Meeting on the Mesa VIII |
$35,000 |
| University of California, San Francisco | Dr. Susan J Fisher PhD | The Stem Cell Niche in Development and Disease |
$5,000 |
| University of California, San Francisco | Dr. Peter G. Stock | IPITA 2013 – 14th World Congress of the International Pancreas and Islet transplant Association |
$10,000 |
| University of California, Los Angeles | Dr. Dana Leanne Jones | 7th CA/HSCI Junior PI Conference: Stem Cells 2.0 |
$2,500 |
| Stanford University | Dr. Thomas A. Rando | Third Annual Symposium on Regenerative Rehabilitation |
$20,000 |
| OCTANe Foundation for Innovation | Matthew Jenusaitis | Orange County Summit on Regenerative Medicine (OCSRM) |
$2,500 |
| Alliance Forum Foundation | George Hara | 2013 World Alliance Forum in San Francisco |
$3,500 |
| University of California, San Diego | Dr. Joan Heller Brown | International Society for Heart Research (ISHR) XX1 World Congress |
$10,000 |
| Scripps Research Institute | Dr. Jeanne F Loring | World Stem Cell Summit |
$30,000 |
| University of California, Davis | Dr. Alice F Tarantal | 12th Annual Gene Therapy Symposium for Heart, Lung, and Blood Diseases |
$8,000 |
| Stanford University | Dr. Julien Sage | 3rd International RB conference |
$10,000 |
| | | Total:
$1,640,318.25 |
