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January 31, 2025
CIRM Awards Nearly $100 Million to Boost Discovery, Translational, and Clinical Disease Research
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CIRM Awards $29.7 Million to Advance Clinical Projects
November 14, 2024
CIRM marks 20 years of advancing regenerative medicine in California
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CIRM’s Blog: The Stem Cellar
The Stem Cellar
- A CIRM Bridges student discovers a passion for engineering March 21, 2025Esmerelda “Esme” Ruiz-Garcia grew up in California in a Mexican-American family, where pursuing a career in healthcare is considered a family calling, with most of her relatives in the nursing and medical fields. “I’ve always loved science, but I was not that interested in the medical field itself,” said Esme. Now, she’s a student intern […]
- CIRM awards $2.8 million to develop a gene therapy for rare neuromuscular disorders March 14, 2025The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) announced in January $100 million in funding for a broad range of projects, including four to support clinical programs. One of these was a $2.8 million award to Patricio Sepulveda, PhD, MBA, CEO of Amplo Biotechnology, Inc. That grant will support the development of a gene therapy approach […]
- Breaking barriers in rare disease: A gene therapy transforms cystinosis treatment March 11, 2025When Kurt Gillenberg was 10 months old, his parents knew something wasn’t right. But it wasn’t until he reached 18 months that they found a doctor at the University of California, San Diego, who diagnosed Kurt with cystinosis – a rare genetic, metabolic defect that impacts over 2,000 people worldwide and around 500-600 people in […]
