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  • Diving into a new era of treatment: A patient’s journey with a groundbreaking epilepsy stem cell therapy April 16, 2025
    In 2007, Justin Graves was working at a SCUBA shop in Louisville, Kentucky, when he had his first epileptic seizure. “SCUBA diving has just been something I’ve loved my whole life,” he said. “My whole family loves it.” Justin had to give up diving as well as his work as a dive instructor, and like […]
  • 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, […]

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