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Institution Researcher name Grant Type Grant Title Committed Funds
Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute Evan Snyder Early Translational 'Developmental Candidates' for Cell-Based Therapies for Parkinson's Disease (PD) $3,562,824
Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute Mark Mercola Disease Team Planning 'Stem Cell Therapies for Heart Failure' $53,150
Scripps Research Institute Peter Schultz SEED A Chemical Approach to Stem Cell Biology $784,900
University of California San Francisco Jeffrey Lotz Disease Team Planning A CIRM Disease Team for the Repair of Traumatically Injured and Arthritic Cartilage $55,000
University of California San Francisco Jeffrey Bluestone Disease Team Planning A CIRM Disease Team for the Treatment and Cure of Diabetes $55,000
University of Southern California Roberta Brinton Disease Team Planning II A CIRM Disease Team to Develop Allopregnanolone for Prevention and Treatment of Alzheimer's Disease $107,989
University of California Irvine Leslie Thompson Early Translational II A hESc-based Development Candidate for Huntington's Disease $3,799,817
The Salk Institute for Biological Studies Senyon Choe SEED A method to maintain and propagate pluripotent human ES cells $796,348
Stanford University Judith Shizuru Disease Team Planning II A monoclonal antibody that depletes blood stem cells and enables chemotherapy free transplants $109,676
University of California Irvine Orhan Nalcioglu Tools & Technology A MULTI-MODALITY MOLECULAR IMAGING SYSTEM (MRSPECT) FOR IN VIVO STEM CELL TRACKING $719,798
OncoMed Pharmaceuticals Inc Timothy Hoey Disease Team Planning II A New Cancer Therapeutic to Reduce CSC Frequency $65,120
University of California Irvine Andrew Putnam New Faculty I A Novel Engineered Niche to Explore the Vasculogenic Potential of Embryonic Stem Cells $2,108,683
University of California San Diego Shyni Varghese New Faculty II A Novel Microenvironment-Mediated Functional Skeletal Muscle from Human Embryonic Stem Cells and their In Vivo Engraftment $2,300,569
Gamma Medica-Ideas Inc. Douglas Wagenaar Tools & Technology A Novel SPECT Microscopy System for 3D Imaging of Single Stem Cells In Vivo $949,748
University of California Riverside Prudence Talbot Shared Labs A Stem Cell Core Facility for Studying Human Embryonic Stem Cell Differentiation $3,658,353
BioTime Inc. Michael West Early Translational Addressing the Cell Purity and Identity Bottleneck Through Generation and Expansion of Clonal Human Embryonic Progenitor Cell Lines $4,721,706
University of California Davis Martin Birchall Disease Team Planning II Airways for Children $71,218
University of California Davis Mark Zern Comprehensive An in vitro and in vivo comparison among three different human hepatic stem cell populations. $2,504,614
Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute Alexey Terskikh SEED Analysis of Candidate Neural Crest Cells Derived from Human ES Cells $759,000
Stanford University Irving Weissman Tools & Technology II Antibody tools to deplete or isolate teratogenic, cardiac, and blood stem cells from hESCs $1,869,487
University of California Santa Cruz Joel Kubby Tools & Technology AO Wide-Field Microscope $552,985
Palo Alto Institute for Research and Education Husein Hadeiba Transplantation Immunology Application of Tolerogenic Dendritic Cells for Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation $885,475
University of California Santa Cruz David Feldheim SEED Assessing the role of Eph/ephrin signaling in hESC growth and differentiation $499,999
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Eduardo Marban Disease Team Autologous cardiac-derived cells for advanced ischemic cardiomyopathy $5,560,232
Scripps Research Institute Martin Friedlander Early Translational Autologous Retinal Pigmented Epithelial Cells Derived from Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells for the Treatment of Atrophic Age Related Macular Degeneration $5,945,738
Buck Institute for Age Research Xianmin Zeng Early Translational II Banking transplant ready dopaminergic neurons using a scalable process $6,016,624
Stanford University Karl Deisseroth New Faculty I Bioengineering technology for fast optical control of differentiation and function in stem cells and stem cell progeny $3,154,719
University of California San Diego Charles King Basic Biology III Biological relevance of microRNAs in hESC differentiation to endocrine pancreas $1,313,649
University of California Davis Roslyn (Rivkah) Isseroff Early Translational II Bone Marrow Mesenchymal Stem Cells to Heal Chronic Diabetic Wounds $4,526,900
Pasadena City College Pamela Eversole-Cire Bridges Bridges to Stem Cell Research at Pasadena City College $3,609,138
University of California Merced Kara McCloskey New Faculty II Building Cardiac Tissue from Stem Cells and Natural Matrices $1,706,255
Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute Mark Mercola Training I Burnham Institute CIRM Stem Cell Training Grant (Type II) $1,489,640
California State Polytechnic University Pomona Jill Adler-Moore Bridges Cal Poly Pomona and Cal State LA Collaborative CIRM Bridges Program to Enhance Stem Cell Research Training and Education $3,008,975
California State University San Marcos Bianca Mothe Bridges California State University-San Marcos CIRM Bridges to the Stem Cell Research Training Grant $3,613,311
Scripps Research Institute Peter Schultz Early Translational II Cartilage Regeneration by the Chondrogenic Small Molecule PRO1 during Osteoarthritis $6,792,660
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Eduardo Marban Disease Team Planning Cedars-Sinai Heart Disease Regenerative Medicine Team Planning Award $46,886
ViaCyte Inc. Emmanuel Baetge Disease Team Cell Therapy for Diabetes $19,999,937
University of California Los Angeles Siavash Kurdistani SEED Cellular epigenetic diversity as a blueprint for defining the identity and functional potential of human embryonic stem cells $641,047
iPierian Inc. Berta Strulovici Basic Biology II Cellular Reprogramming: Dissecting the Molecular Mechanism and Enhancing Efficiency $1,458,000
Stanford University Marius Wernig Tools & Technology II Cellular tools to study brain diseases affecting synaptic transmission $1,906,494
University of California Los Angeles Robb MacLellan Basic Biology III Characterization and Engineering of the Cardiac Stem Cell Niche $1,181,306
The Salk Institute for Biological Studies Leanne Jones New Faculty I Characterization of mechanisms regulating de-differentiation and the re-acquisition of stem cell identity $2,675,234
Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute Mark Mercola Comprehensive Chemical Genetic Approach to Production of hESC-derived Cardiomyocytes $3,036,002
Children's Hospital of Los Angeles David Warburton Training II CHLA Stem Cell Training Grant $5,103,441
Children's Hospital of Oakland Research Institute Vasanthy Narayanaswami Creativity Awards CHORI/UC Berkeley Summer Stem Cell Research Internship Program for High School Students $115,500
Buck Institute for Age Research Major Facilities CIRM Center of Excellence at Buck Institute for Age Research $20,500,000
Children's Hospital of Oakland Research Institute Mark Walters Disease Team Planning CIRM Disease Team Planning Award $55,000
University of California Merced Major Facilities CIRM Major Facilities $4,359,480
Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine Major Facilities CIRM Major Facilities $43,000,000
University of California Berkeley Major Facilities CIRM Major Facilities $20,183,500
Page SUM $201,991,127
Total SUM $1,328,177,425
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