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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
- Diving into a new era of treatment: A patient’s journey with a groundbreaking epilepsy stem cell therapy April 16, 2025In 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, 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, […]