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Latest Press Releases
March 27, 2025
CIRM Approves New and Updated Funding Programs, Awards $26.5 Million for Clinical Research and Development
January 31, 2025
CIRM Awards Nearly $100 Million to Boost Discovery, Translational, and Clinical Disease Research
November 21, 2024
CIRM Awards $29.7 Million to Advance Clinical Projects
November 14, 2024
CIRM marks 20 years of advancing regenerative medicine in California
CIRM’s Blog: The Stem Cellar
The Stem Cellar
- Filling gaps in federal research funding with a focus on neurological diseases April 9, 2025Over the past 20 years, the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) has supercharged research in California in ways that have often filled gaps in federal research funding. This has been true since CIRM was founded in 2004, and federal funding for embryonic stem cell research was extremely hard to come by. Now, given current […]
- 20 years of CIRM: From building the infrastructure to clinical trials April 3, 2025Twenty years ago, Californians voted in favor of Proposition 71, which allocated $3 billion to support stem cell research and created the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM). In 2020, Proposition 14 passed, providing an additional $5.5 billion. CIRM will reflect on the past two decades, highlighting early research that has evolved into potential therapies, […]
- How Patient-Derived Cells Are Changing ALS Research March 27, 2025Before there can be any therapies for disease, scientists need to understand what goes wrong in the first place. Are cells lost that could be replaced? Is there too much or too little of a particular molecule that needs regulation? Stem cells can be used as mini models of a disease to find biological targets […]