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. Click here to see a list of our Funded Institutions.

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Institution Researcher name Grant Type Grant Title Award Value
University of California, San Diego Jonathan Sebat ReMIND – Discovery Stage ReMIND Modeling the genetic basis of psychopathology in schizophrenia and autism $12,703,708
University of California, San Francisco Mercedes Paredes ReMIND – Discovery Stage ReMIND Multi-gene modulation to rescue CNS-associated microdeletion syndromes $6,253,897
University of California, Los Angeles Aparna Bhaduri ReMIND – Discovery Stage ReMIND Defining Neurovascular Metabolism in Neurodevelopmental and Neuropsychiatric Disorders $10,330,000
University of California, San Francisco Tomasz Nowakowski ReMIND – Discovery Stage ReMIND CIRM Center for Neuropsychiatric Stem Cell Proteomics $13,781,522
Calibr Xin Jin ReMIND – Discovery Stage ReMIND Translational epigenomics: dissecting cell type-specific function of neuropsychiatric risk genes in vivo $11,376,314
Calibr Stuart A Lipton ReMIND – Discovery Stage ReMIND Multiomic Studies of Idiopathic Intellectual Disability and Autism Spectrum Disorder (ID/ASD) $17,365,387
University of California, San Francisco Alex Pollen ReMIND – Discovery Stage ReMIND Deep phenotyping of human brain organoid models of autism spectrum disorder to unravel disease heterogeneity and develop biomarkers and treatments $12,297,272
Coast to Coast Conferences & Events Calli France Conference – 2025 CIRM Trainee Network Conference 2025 CIRM Trainee Networking Conference $413,145
University of Southern California Dr. Francesca Mariani Conference – 2025 CIRM Trainee Network Conference Manage the 2024 CIRM Annual Trainee Network Conference $348,626
EVERSANA Ms. Liana Rostamian Patient Support Program Patient Support Program to Improve Accessibility to Eligible CIRM-Trial Patients $2,485,000
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Arun Sharma Shared Labs Grant – Enhancing/Expanding SRLs Shared Resource Laboratory for Advanced Stem Cell-Based Modeling $3,991,879
Gladstone Institutes, J. David Dr. Bruce R. Conklin Shared Labs Grant – Enhancing/Expanding SRLs A Center for Stem Cell Disease Modeling and Therapeutics $4,000,000
University of California, Santa Barbara Dr. Dennis O. Clegg Dr. Shared Labs Grant – Enhancing/Expanding SRLs Shared Resources Laboratory for Stem Cell-Based Modeling in Stem Cell Biology and Engineering $3,999,995
Salk Institute for Biological Studies Dr. Fred H Gage Shared Labs Grant – Enhancing/Expanding SRLs Shared Resource Laboratory for Stem Cell-Based Modeling: Resources for Exploring the Biological Underpinnings of Aging and Age-Associated Pathologies $3,641,064
University of Southern California Dr. Nils O. Lindstrom Shared Labs Grant – Enhancing/Expanding SRLs CIRM ASCEND Center – Advancing Stem Cell Education and Novel Discoveries $3,663,163
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. Kathrin Plath Dr. Shared Labs Grant – Enhancing/Expanding SRLs A modular automation approach to stem cell modeling to increase throughput, reproducibility and access $3,999,999
University of California, Irvine Craig Michael Walsh Shared Labs Grant – Enhancing/Expanding SRLs Shared Resources Laboratories to Enhance In Vitro Stem Cell Modeling and Training $3,641,396
Humboldt State University Sponsored Programs Foundation Dr Amy Sprowles Shared Labs Grant – Establishing SRLs Cal Poly Humboldt Shared Resource Laboratory for Human Stem Cell-Based Modeling (SRL-hSC) $4,399,888
University of California, Merced Dr. Kara E McCloskey Shared Labs Grant – Establishing SRLs UCM Resources for Expanding Stem cell-derived Tissues and Organs for Regenerative Engineering (RESTORE) $5,396,133
Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation at Harbor – UCLA Medical Center Denise Al Alam Shared Labs Grant – Establishing SRLs Stem cell-based Parternship Resource for Investigating Human Diseases and Training (SPRINT) $5,400,000
City of Hope, Beckman Research Institute Dr. Nadia Carlesso Ph.D., M.D. Shared Labs Grant – Establishing SRLs Stem Cell-based Disease Modeling Shared Resource Laboratory $5,400,000
University of California, Davis Brian Fury Manufacturing Network Grant Creating A Collaborative California Cell and Gene Therapy Manufacturing Network $1,543,522
City of Hope, Beckman Research Institute Dr. Taby Ahsan Manufacturing Network Grant Scalable Expansion for Stem Cell-derived Therapies $1,998,174
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. Dawn Ward Manufacturing Network Grant Enhancing California’s Manufacturing of Leading-Edge Cell & Gene Therapies $2,000,000
University of California, San Francisco Dr Brian Rudolph Shy Manufacturing Network Grant Open Manufacturing Network for Cell and Gene Therapies $1,999,933
University of Southern California Mohamed Abou-el-Enein Manufacturing Network Grant Advancing Cell Therapy Manufacturing Through Collaboration $1,999,964
Stanford University Steven Feldman Manufacturing Network Grant Laboratory for Cell and Gene Medicine: A partner in the California Cell and Gene Therapy Manufacturing Network $2,000,000
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Dr. Dhruv Sareen Manufacturing Network Grant A comprehensive biomanufacturing center solving bottlenecks in cell and gene therapy manufacturing to accelerate new therapies for California patients $2,000,000
University of California, Irvine Dr. Aileen J Anderson Manufacturing Network Grant The UCI GMP Cell and Gene Therapy Manufacturing Facility $2,000,000
University of California, San Diego Dan S Kaufman Manufacturing Network Grant UCSD Advanced Cell Therapy Laboratory $2,000,000
University of California, San Francisco Dr. Holger F Willenbring Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Unlocking the regenerative potential of hepatocyte plasticity for diseases of the biliary system $4,871,000
Stanford University Dr. Joseph C. Wu Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Base Editing, Single-Cell Multiomics, and Cardiac Organoids to Decode Genetic Variants $4,606,248
Iris Medicine, Inc. Chi Zhang Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Global profiling of miRNA-based gene activation to enable a new category of genetic medicine $2,997,574
Navega Therapeutics Fernando Aleman Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Enhancing clinical predictability with novel models of iPSC-derived nociceptor for chronic pain $1,498,623
California Institute of Technology Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects High-Throughput Discovery of Embryo Formation Factors Using Stem Cell-Based Human Embryo Models $2,872,697
Stanford University Matteo Amitaba Mole’ Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Dissecting the cellular and molecular interactions between embryo and endometrium during human implantation. $2,290,157
Stanford University Dr. Konstantina Stankovic Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Identifying and Overcoming Roadblocks to Hearing Restoration Using Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells $4,608,000
University of California, San Diego Dr. Nicole G Coufal Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Next generation stem cell transplantation approaches for pediatric neurodegenerative disorders $4,628,762
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. Kathrin Plath Dr. Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Genetic and Epigenetic Regulation of XIST and X-chromosome silencing in hiPSCs: Overcoming Barriers in Stem Cell-Based Therapies for Women’s Health $2,358,742
University of Southern California Zhongwei Li Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Development of in vitro and in vivo functional human synthetic kidney organoid (hSKO) model as a platform technology for kidney research $2,287,926
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. Hanna Mikkola Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Unraveling the developmental path from altered hematopoietic stem cells to leukemia in Down syndrome $2,337,847
University of California, San Diego Melissa Gymrek Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Interrogation of tandem repeat variants contributing to neurodevelopmental and psychiatric traits using stem cell models $2,405,997
University of California, Irvine Dr. LESLIE M Thompson Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects In neurons and beyond: how protein interactions shape the cellular response to Huntington’s Disease $2,056,195
University of California, San Francisco Jingjing Li Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Hearing the Silence: Genome-wide Mapping of Cell-Type-Specific Silencers in the Developing Human Brain $4,244,432
University of California, San Diego Jerome Mertens Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Unraveling nuclear Tau functions using age-equivalent human induced neurons from healthy aging donors and tauopathy patients $2,137,778
Calibr Giordano Lippi Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects A novel platform to rescue neurodevelopmental disorders caused by haploinsufficiency $4,086,486
Stanford University Dr. Joanna Wysocka PhD Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Mechanisms underlying dosage sensitivity in developmental disorders $2,304,000
Stanford University Professor Seung K. Kim Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Developing replacement islet cells for diabetes using human stem cells $3,943,364
University of California, San Francisco Dr. Tippi C. MacKenzie Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Harnessing developmental biology to achieve safe and efficient in vivo genome editing of HSCs $2,316,683
Gladstone Institutes, J. David Dr. Benoit Bruneau Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Mechanisms of Transcription Factor Haploinsufficiency in Human Congenital Heart Disease $2,444,376
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