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May 30, 2025
Statement from CIRM’s President Re: Rocket Pharmaceuticals’ Danon Disease Gene Therapy Trial Update
May 29, 2025
CIRM awards $4.7 million for vision loss gene therapy
April 24, 2025
CIRM awards $8 million to advance vision loss gene therapy to clinical trials
March 27, 2025
CIRM Approves New and Updated Funding Programs, Awards $26.5 Million for Clinical Research and Development
CIRM’s Blog: The Stem Cellar
The Stem Cellar
- CIRM COMPASS scholar Maya Singh shares how the program helped paved the way for her career as a physician August 27, 2025Written by Holly Alyssa MacCormick Many paths can lead to a career as a physician. For undergraduate Maya Singh, the road to becoming a doctor begins at a laboratory bench in the University of California, Berkeley. “I believe that being a part of research is a huge step toward being a practicing physician,” said Singh. […]
- Winner of Beast Games becomes champion for his son’s rare disease August 15, 2025Written by Holly Alyssa MacCormick You can do a lot with $10 million. Yet, when Jeffrey Randall Allen won the largest prize in game show history on Amazon Prime Video’s Beast Games there was only one thing he wanted to spend his $10 million on—research that might help find a cure for his son’s rare […]
- 20 Years of CIRM: Building the Workforce July 21, 2025In celebration of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM)’s 20th anniversary, we have been reflecting on some of the early projects we supported and their outcomes. Today, we’re looking at our first set of grants, which we awarded in 2006 to support training programs for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. Not long after, CIRM […]