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.

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Institution Researcher name Grant Type Grant Title Award Value
University of California, San Francisco Mark C. Walters M.D. Conference – The 2019 Alpha Stem Cell Clinic Annual Symposium 2019 Alpha Stem Cell Clinic Symposium – Mending Stem Cells: The Past, Present & Future Regenerative Medicine $60,000
University of California, Los Angeles John S. Adams Conference – The 2018 Alpha Stem Cell Clinic Annual Symposium Delivery of Stem Cell Therapeutics to Patients $60,000
International Alliance for Biological Standardization Dr. Anthony Lubiniecki Conference – Manage a Symposium on Pluripotent Stem Cell Manufacturing Basis of Standardization for Cell Therapies $100,000
University of California, Irvine Daniela A. Bota Alpha Stem Cell Clinics Network Expansion A hub and spoke community model to equitably deliver regenerative medicine therapies to diverse populations across four California counties $8,000,000
University of Southern California Thomas Buchanan Alpha Stem Cell Clinics Network Expansion Alpha Clinic Network Expansion for Cell and Gene Therapies $7,999,983
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. Noah Carvajal Federman Alpha Stem Cell Clinics Network Expansion Expansion of the Alpha Stem Cell and Gene Therapy Clinic at UCLA $8,000,000
University of California, San Diego Catriona Jamieson Alpha Stem Cell Clinics Network Expansion UC San Diego Health CIRM Alpha Stem Cell Clinic $8,000,000
University of California, Davis Dr Mehrdad Abedi Alpha Stem Cell Clinics Network Expansion Alpha Stem Cell Clinic for Northern and Central California $7,999,997
City of Hope, Beckman Research Institute Dr. Leo D Wang Alpha Stem Cell Clinics Network Expansion The City of Hope Alpha Clinic: A roadmap for equitable and inclusive access to regenerative medicine therapies for all Californians $8,000,000
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Dr. Michael I Lewis Alpha Stem Cell Clinics Network Expansion A comprehensive stem cell and gene therapy clinic to advance new therapies for a diverse patient population in California $7,957,966
University of California, San Francisco Mark C. Walters M.D. Alpha Stem Cell Clinics Network Expansion University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Alpha Stem Cell Clinic (ASCC) $7,994,347
Stanford University Dr. Matthew H Porteus Alpha Stem Cell Clinics Network Expansion The Stanford Alpha Stem Cell Clinic $6,920,810
University of California, San Francisco Mark C. Walters M.D. Alpha Stem Cell Clinics Network Expansion University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) CIRM Alpha Stem Cell Clinic $5,087,847
UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland Dr. Mark C. Walters M.D. Alpha Stem Cell Clinics Network Expansion University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) CIRM Alpha Stem Cell Clinic $2,292,611
University of California, Davis Dr Mehrdad Abedi Alpha Stem Cell Clinics Network Expansion Alpha Stem Cell Clinic for Northern and Central California $8,076,421
City of Hope, Beckman Research Institute Prof. John A. Zaia Conference – The 2017 Alpha Stem Cell Clinic Annual Symposium 2nd Annual Symposium of the CIRM Alpha Stem Cell Clinics Network “Alpha Clinics – Making the Future a Reality for Stem Cell-Based Therapies” $79,287
Generation STEAM Silvana DelPiccolo Conference – Manage The SPARK Annual Meeting Manage the 2025 Annual SPARK Conference $114,000
The Regents of the University of California on behalf of its Riverside Campus Dr. Huinan Hannah Liu Conference – Manage The SPARK Annual Meeting Manage the 2024 SPARK Annual Meeting $110,000
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Wafa Tawackoli Conference – Manage The SPARK Annual Meeting 2023 CIRM SPARK Research Conference $100,000
UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland Ellen B Fung Conference – Manage The SPARK Annual Meeting 2022 CIRM SPARK Research Conference $79,336
University of California, Davis Gerhard Gerhard Bauer Conference – Manage The SPARK Annual Meeting The 2020 SPARK Annual Meeting $22,876
Pathways to Stem Cell Science Dr. Victoria Fox Conference – Manage The SPARK Annual Meeting 2019 SPARK Annual Meeting $49,915
University of California, Davis Gerhard Gerhard Bauer Conference – Manage The SPARK Annual Meeting The 2018 SPARK Annual Meeting $39,391
City of Hope, Beckman Research Institute Dr. Paul M. Salvaterra Conference – Manage The SPARK Annual Meeting Manage the 2017 SPARK Annual Meeting $22,555
California State University San Marcos Corporation James Jancovich Conference – Manage The Bridges Annual Meeting The 2022 Bridges Annual Meeting $137,297
California State University San Marcos Corporation Dr. Bianca Romina Mothé Conference – Manage The Bridges Annual Meeting 2020 and 2021 Bridges Annual Meeting $125,180
California State University San Marcos Corporation Dr. Bianca Romina Mothé Conference – Manage The Bridges Annual Meeting 2018 and 2019 Bridges Annual Meeting $291,622
San Diego State University Foundation Ralph Feuer Conference – Manage The Bridges Annual Meeting 2017 Bridges Annual Meeting $153,449
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. Brigitte N Gomperts Conference – Lung Regenerative Medicine Workshop Stem Cells for Lung Diseases – Overcoming Barriers to Find New Therapies $44,548
IQVIA, Inc. Dr. Amritha Jaishankar Translating Center A Translating Center designed to expedite the development and delivery of high quality stem cell therapies to patients $15,000,000
IQVIA, Inc. Peter Robinson Accelerating Center An Accelerating Center designed to expedite the development and delivery of high quality stem cell therapies to patients $11,772,453
University of California, San Diego Catriona Jamieson Conference – The 2016 Alpha Stem Cell Clinic Annual Symposium UCSD Division of Regenerative Medicine and CIRM Alpha Clinics Network Symposium $37,778
Mosaic Event Management, Inc. Ron Johnson Conference – Manage The 2016 Bridges And SPARK Annual Meetings 2016 CIRM Bridges & SPARK Meetings $205,388
University of California, Irvine Dr. Aileen J Anderson Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Therapeutic targeting of Glioblastoma Stem Cell survival and self-renewal signaling $2,250,144
Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles Dr Biraj Mahato Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Chemically engineered photoreceptors for vision restoration in retinal degeneration associated blindness. $1,711,000
University of California, San Francisco Claire Clelland Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Developing a universal CRISPR gene therapy approach to treat C9orf72 ALS $2,740,592
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. Koki Morizono Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects B cell receptor-mediated lentiviral expression of anti-HIV antibody $2,751,504
University of California, San Francisco Faranak Fattahi Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Drug discovery for Charcot Marie Tooth Disease using hPSC-derived Schwann cells $2,471,664
City of Hope, Beckman Research Institute Dr. Christine E. Brown Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Development of a Trifunctional Self-Renewing Memory CAR T Cell Therapy to Overcome the Heterogeneity and Suppressive Microenvironment of Glioblastoma $2,700,810
University of California, San Diego Dr. Neil Carson Chi Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Modulating cardiac myosin heavy chain isoform expression for treating cardiomyopathies $2,772,000
University of California, San Francisco Dr. Qizhi Tang PhD Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Genome editing of human Tregs to enable combinational tolerogenic therapy with T cell-targeted biologics for T1D $2,485,549
Palo Alto Veterans Institute for Research Dr Jian Luo Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Human induced pluripotent stem cells-derived glial enriched progenitors for the treatment of mild traumatic brain injury $2,255,189
Palo Alto Veterans Institute for Research Irene Lorenzo Llorente Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Inhibitory interneurons derived from human induced pluripotent stem cells to treat stroke $2,140,122
Savanna Biotherapeutics, Inc. Dr. Sunil Gandhi Ph.D Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Gene-corrected human microglia for the treatment of adult onset leukoencephalopathy with axonal spheroids and pigmented glia (ALSP) $1,417,948
University of California, San Francisco Faranak Fattahi Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Drug discovery for gastrointestinal motility disorders using hPSC-derived enteric ganglioids $1,954,367
University of Southern California Dr. Justin K Ichida Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Development of a VAV2 antisense oligonucleotide (ASO) treatment for ALS $2,072,560
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Dr. Ritchie Ho Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects C9orf72 repeat expansion-tuned allelic suppression by CRISPRi as an ALS therapy $2,274,768
University of California, Davis Ricardo Anibal Maselli MD Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Treatment of Myasthenic Syndrome due to Choline Acetyltransferase Deficiency Using AAV9-mediated Gene Therapy $1,500,000
Adverum Biotechnologies Cameron Keast Baker Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Development of an Optogenetic Vision Restoration Gene Therapy Using an Engineered Form of Melanopsin $1,150,820
Stanford University Dr. Robert Negrin MD Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Orthogonal IL2 Receptor Transduced Regulatory T Cells for Clinical Application $1,920,652
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