CIRM in the News

CIRM is gratified to receive media attention from around the globe. Check out the highlights of press coverage below. For more CIRM news, visit our The Stem Cellar.

April 22, 2022
UC San Diego newsroom
How Ovarian Cancer Defies Immunotherapy

April 22, 2022
UC Davis Health News
Could CAR T cells offer hope for an HIV cure?

April 22, 2022
UCSF Newsroom
UCSF researchers hope to cure sickle cell disease through CRISPR gene editing

April 22, 2022
Capitol Weekly
Stem cell money flows, as search expands for ‘miraculous’ cures

April 22, 2022
San Francisco Business Times
California stem cell agency CIRM moving to peninsula

April 22, 2022
Business Wire
Immusoft Receives $4M in Funding from California Institute for Regenerative Medicine

April 22, 2022
Sickle Cell Disease News
New blood stem cell roadmap may advance SCD treatments

April 22, 2022
CSUN today
CSUN Receives $3.6M for Undergraduate Research Training

April 22, 2022
UC San Diego
State Stem Cell Agency Funds Three New UC San Diego Projects

April 22, 2022
Capitol Weekly
CIRM: Is it really targeting cures or just boiling the ocean

April 22, 2022
Healio
City of Hope receives $4.9 million for basic stem cell research

April 22, 2022
USC Newsroom
California’s stem cell agency awards USC $5 million to train scientists and clinicians

April 22, 2022
Capitol Weekly
Stem cell agency: Following the money and its performance

April 22, 2022
UC Irvine news
UCI receives 5-year $5 million CIRM award for training of diverse researchers

April 22, 2022
UC Santa Cruz newsroom
Stem cell agency funds research training program at UC Santa Cruz

April 22, 2022
UC Riverside Newsroom
UC Riverside receives $5M CIRM grant to train scientists in stem cell research

April 22, 2022
City of Hope
City of Hope awarded $4.9 million from CIRM to train future leaders in stem cell biology and regenerative medicine

April 22, 2022
UCI News
$5.5 million CIRM grant to fund development of new cervical spinal cord injury therapeutic

April 22, 2022
Capitol Weekly
State Stem Cell Agency’s First Royalties, $15 million from Stanford

April 22, 2022
UCSF News
UCSF Awarded Nearly $8.4M for Clinical Trial Testing SCD CRISPR

April 22, 2022
Stanford Newsroom
Researchers awarded $31 million for clinical trials to treat stroke, heart failure and brain cancer

April 22, 2022
UC Davis Health
California Stem Cell Agency Funds Research into Angelman Syndrome and Bioprint Pacemaker

April 22, 2022
Globe Newswire
California Stem Cell Agency Awards the Stone Research Foundation $1.3m to Fight Osteoarthritis

April 22, 2022
UC Davis Health News
Cellular Therapy Improves Signs and Symptoms of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy

April 22, 2022
UCSF newsroom
UCSF Gene Therapy for Deadly Mutation Fast-Tracked for FDA Review

April 22, 2022
Ophthamology Times
Discovery by USC investigators shows long-term viability of stem cell derived retinal implant

April 22, 2022
Stanford News
Researcher awarded $12 million for a stem cell trial to improve outcomes of young blood cancer patients

April 22, 2022
Los Angeles Times
A business’ bottom line vs a rare disease’s cure

April 22, 2022
University of British Columbia
Stem cell-based treatment produces insulin in patients with type 1 diabetes

April 22, 2022
Cal Matters
Research topics to expand as California passes stem cell measure

April 22, 2022
Capitol Weekly
Clinical trial into bubble baby disease back on track

April 22, 2022
Ontario Institute for Regenerative Medicine
Urgent Appeal to the Government of Ontario

April 22, 2022
UCLA News room
UCLA scientists make strides toward an ‘off-the-shelf’ therapy for cancer

April 22, 2022
The Guardian UK
“This is such an important moment’: How stem cell research is transforming medicine

April 22, 2022
Big Think
Osteoarthritis: Stem Cell Treatment Could Regenerate Cartilage Without Surgery

April 22, 2022
UCLA news room
UCLA gene therapy gives news life to girl born with fatal immune disorder

April 22, 2022
Los Angeles Times
Why the death of a stem cell cure is actually good news

April 22, 2022
Times of San Diego
Proposition 14 Aims to Keep California at Worldwide Center of Stem Cell Research

April 22, 2022
San Francisco Chronicle
UCSF Oakland just got $17 million to find a cure for sickle cell disease

December 11, 2020
UCLA Health News
Six patients with rare blood disease are doing well after gene therapy clinical trial

December 11, 2020
Xconomy
Viacyte Adds $27M to Move Ahead Trio of Stem Cell Diabetes Treatments

December 11, 2020
Technology Network
Can Stem Cells Heal a Brain Injury? A New Biomarker May Predict the Answer

December 11, 2020
BioSpace
ViaCyte and Gore Enter Clinical Phase Agreement Based on Novel Membrane Technology for PEC-Encap Product Candidate

December 11, 2020
San Francisco Chronicle
Former California state Sen. Art Torres makes the trip from SFMTA to UC Board of Regents

December 11, 2020
Stanford News
Exercise restores youthful properties to muscle stem cells of old mice

December 11, 2020
Science Daily
Scientists show MRI predicts the efficacy of a stem cell therapy for brain injury

December 11, 2020
KGO-TV
Future of curing knee pain? Stanford study finds solution involving creating new cartilage

December 11, 2020
San Francisco Business Times
How this Stanford biotech spinout plans to quickly boost gene therapy

December 11, 2020
USC News
USC Stem Cell scientists use “mini-lungs” and lung models to understand COVID-19

December 11, 2020
UCSD Health News
UC San Diego to Advance Stem Cell Therapies in New Space Station Lab

December 11, 2020
Stanford News
Stanford scientists solve secret of nerve cells marking a form of schizophrenia

December 11, 2020
BioSpace
Celularity announces the activation of first California Clinical Trial Site following CIRM Grant Award to Advance Treatments for COVID-19

December 11, 2020
Stanford News
Researchers find method to regrow cartilage in the joints

December 11, 2020
LA Business Journal
City of Hope receives grant for COVID-19 study

December 11, 2020
STAT News
How do you separate scientifically sound stem cell therapies from scams?

December 11, 2020
san Francisco Business Times
California’s stem cell research agency may redirect $5 million to COVID-19 fund

December 11, 2020
UC Irvine News
UCI clinical trial targeting retinitis pigmentosa receives $6.6M grant from California Institute for Regenerative Medicine

December 11, 2020
San Francisco Chronicle
California stem cell advocates submit signatures for $5.5 billion bond measure

December 11, 2020
Pain News Network
New Drug Could Improve Effectiveness of Stem Cell Therapy

December 11, 2020
Lineage Cell Therapeutics
Lineage Cell Therapeutics Proudly Supports Patients’ Access to Innovative Cell Therapy Treatments and Research Through Passage of Proposition 14

December 11, 2020
India Times
Indian-American UCLA professors uncover how COVID-19 virus affects multiple organs in mice

December 11, 2020
Science Daily
World’s first: Drug guides stem cells to desired location, improving their ability to heal

December 11, 2020

Lab-Grown Human Brain Organoids Mimic an Autism Spectrum Disorder, Help Test Treatments

December 11, 2020
Bond Buyer News
California’s stem cell research agency looks to the future

December 11, 2020
Rocket Pharmaceuticals
Rocket Pharmaceuticals Receives Funding from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine for Phase 1 Clinical Trial of RP-L401 for Infantile Malignant Osteopetrosis

December 11, 2020
Times of San Diego
Stem Cell Medical Research to Expand in California Following Passage of Prop. 14

December 11, 2020
Los Angeles Times
For a man long afflicted with an illness made riskier by COVID-19, hope for the holidays

December 11, 2020
San Diego Union Tribune
Prop. 14’s passage replenishes California stem cell agency’s coffers with $5.5B

December 3, 2018
Capitol Weekly
Stem cell funding’s “valley of death”

November 5, 2018
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Human embryonic stem cells come of age 20 years after discovery

November 5, 2018
Pharmacy Choice
Asterias Biotherapeutics Announces Positive Outcome from Data Review from OPC1 Spinal Cord Injury Study

November 5, 2018
San Francisco Chronicle
New immune system therapy for blood cancer shows promise, Stanfard reports

November 5, 2018
First Word Pharma
Poseida Therapeutics Receives Regenerative Medicine Advanced Therapy (RMAT) Designation from FDA for PBCMA-101

October 22, 2018
EurekAlert
Scientists mimic the earliest stages of human development

October 22, 2018
Neurology Live
Phase III Study Brings Hope to ALS

October 22, 2018
KFI AM 640
City of Hope Researcher Gets $3.8 Million fo Immunotherapy Trial for HIV

October 22, 2018
Centre Daily Times
Stem Cell Agency Awards $11 Million to SoCal Researchers to Fight Disease

October 22, 2018
Technology Networks
Massive Funding Boost for Blinding Retinal Conditions

September 17, 2018
San Francisco Chronicle
Prop. 71 funds are laying groundwork for stem cell therapies

September 7, 2018
San Francisco Chronicle
Lofty promises, limited results

August 16, 2018
San Francisco Chronicle
Immense promise, hard-won progress

July 20, 2018
CNN
Experimental treatment uses modified stem cells to fight cancer

June 8, 2018
NBC7 TV San Diego
Investigating Claims Made by Local Stem Cell Clinic

June 8, 2018
Science & Technology Research News
Treating Vision Loss

June 8, 2018
Los Angeles Business Journal
MAX BioPharma Awarded $1.7 Million to Fight Osteoporosis

June 8, 2018
New York Times
Using Medicine and Science to Improve the Quality of Life

June 8, 2018
San Jose Mercury News
UCSF welcomes in-utero stem cell transplant baby

May 29, 2018
Los Angeles Business Journal
MAX BioPharma Awarded $1.7 Million to Fight Osteoporosis

May 1, 2018
Capitol Weekly
Stem cell agency OKs $32 million in new awards

April 11, 2018
The Press Enterprise
UC Riverside hosting event focused on stem cell research

April 11, 2018
San Diego Business Journal
Poseida Therapeutics Raises $30.5M to Further Develop Cancer Treatments

April 11, 2018
Capitol Weekly
State stem cell agency gets global industry partners

February 26, 2018
Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News
Fate Therapeutics Wins $4M Grant to Advance NK Cancer Immunotherapy

February 12, 2018
San Francisco Chronicle
State earns first royalty check after investing billions in stem cell research

January 30, 2018
Capitol Weekly
Stem cell agency eyes kidney transplant breakthrough

January 16, 2018
Daily Beast
This Doctor’s Revolutionary Stem Cell Treatment Could Eradicate HIV

January 16, 2018
KQED
Should California Voters OK $5 billion More for Stem Cell Research

December 6, 2017
XConomy
15 For ’18: Key Clinical Data to Watch For Next Year

December 6, 2017
Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News
Fate Therapeutics, UC San Diego Launch CAR NK Cancer Immunotherapy Collaboration

December 5, 2017
San Diego Union Tribune
San Diego stem cell scientists awarded $8.7M to research cancer, other diseases