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  • Filling gaps in federal research funding with a focus on neurological diseases  April 9, 2025
    Over 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, 2025
    Twenty 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, 2025
    Before 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 […]

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