Our Grants

CIRM provides funding across five key areas: Infrastructure, Education, Discovery Research, Translational Research, and Clinical Research. By supporting projects at every stage of development, from initial discovery to clinical trials, CIRM drives progress in regenerative medicine and accelerates innovative therapies to patients.

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Institution Researcher name Grant Type Grant Title Award Value
The Regents of the University of California on behalf of its Riverside Campus Dr. Frank Sauer SEED Grant Non-coding RNA as tool for the active control of stem cell differentiation $571,650
University of California, San Francisco Dr. Miguel Ramalho-Santos SEED Grant Transcriptional Regulation of Human Embryonic Stem Cells $595,755
City of Hope, Beckman Research Institute Dr. Timothy R. O’Connor SEED Grant Sources of Genetic Instability in Human Embryonic Stem Cells. $327,311
University of California, San Francisco Dr. Heike E Daldrup-Link SEED Grant Labeling of human embryonic stem cells with iron oxide nanoparticles and fluorescent dyes for a non-invasive cell depiction with MR imaging and optical imaging $240,214
University of California, Irvine Dr. Brian J. Cummings SEED Grant The Immunological Niche: Effect of immunosuppressant drugs on stem cell proliferation, gene expression, and differentiation in a model of spinal cord injury. $595,345
Gladstone Institutes, J. David Dr. Eric Verdin SEED Grant Role of HDAC in human stem cells pluripotentiality and differentiation $590,997
University of California, San Francisco Dr. Didier Y Stainier SEED Grant Endodermal differentiation of human ES cells $611,027
Scripps Research Institute Peter G. Schultz SEED Grant A Chemical Approach to Stem Cell Biology $748,944
Stanford University Dr. Julien Sage SEED Grant Functions of RB family proteins in human embryonic stem cells $498,609
Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research Dr. Bing Ren SEED Grant Mapping the transcriptional regulatory elements in the genome of hESC $653,823
The Regents of the University of California on behalf of its Riverside Campus Professor Michael C Pirrung SEED Grant Stem Cell Survival and Differentiation Through Chemical Genetics $522,933
University of Southern California Dr. Wange Lu SEED Grant Regulation of human neural progenitor cell proliferation by Ryk-mediated Wnt signaling $624,000
University of California, San Diego Dr. Cornelis Murre SEED Grant Generation of long-term cultures of human hematopoietic multipotent progenitors from embryonic stem cells $473,952
Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles Dr. Elizabeth Rachel Lawlor SEED Grant hESC as tools to investigate the neural crest origin of Ewing’s sarcoma $595,576
Stanford University Dr. Calvin Jay Kuo SEED Grant Differentiation of Human Embryonic Stem Cells to Intestinal Fates $554,176
Stanford University Dr. Krishna Shenoy SEED Grant Technology for hESC-Derived Cardiomyocyte Differentiation and Optimization of Graft-Host Integration in Adult Myocardium $572,891
University of California, Merced Dr. Michelle Khine SEED Grant Micro Platform for Controlled Cardiac Myocyte Differentiation $193,700
University of California, Irvine Dr. Michelle Khine SEED Grant Micro Platform for Controlled Cardiac Myocyte Differentiation $156,426
University of California, San Diego Catriona Jamieson SEED Grant Derivation and Characterization of Cancer Stem Cells from Human ES Cells $616,305
University of California, San Francisco Dr. Su Guo SEED Grant Identifying small molecules that stimulate the differentiation of hESCs into dopamine-producing neurons $542,619
University of California, San Francisco Dr. Linda C. Giudice SEED Grant Human Embryonic Stem Cell Differentiation to Trophoblast: Basic Biology and Clinical Translation to Improve Human Fertility $614,784
University of California, San Francisco Dr. Robert Blelloch Dr. SEED Grant MicroRNA Regulation of Human Embryonic Stem Cell Self-Renewal and Differentiation $605,886
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute Dr. Hudson Freeze SEED Grant Role of Glycans in Human Embryonic Stem Cell Conversion to Neural Precursor Cells $708,000
University of California, San Diego Dr Sylvia Evans SEED Grant Specification of Ventricular Myocyte and Pacemaker Lineages Utilizing Human Embryonic Stem Cells $585,600
Salk Institute for Biological Studies Dr. Beverly M Emerson Dr. SEED Grant Regulation of Specific Chromosomal Boundary Elements by CTCF Protein Complexes in Human Embryonic Stem Cells $647,343
University of California, Santa Cruz Dr. Bin Chen SEED Grant In vitro differentiation of hESCs into corticospinal motor neurons $465,624
Human BioMolecular Research Institute Dr. John R Cashman SEED Grant Discovering Potent Molecules with Human ESCs to Treat Heart Disease $688,274
Buck Institute for Age Research Dr. Dale E. Bredesen SEED Grant Programmed Cell Death Pathways Activated in Embryonic Stem Cells $728,950
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. Douglas L. Black Basic Biology II Programs of alternative splicing regulation by polypyrimidine tract binding protein $1,344,562
University of California, San Diego Dong-Er Zhang Basic Biology II RUNX1 in maintenance, expansion, and differentiation of therapeutic pluripotent stem cells $1,371,540
University of California, Irvine Professor Marian L Waterman Basic Biology II TCF-3: A Wnt Pathway Effector and Nanog Regulator in Pluripotent Stem Cell Self-Renewal $1,259,879
iPierian, Inc. Dr. Irene Griswold-Prenner Basic Biology II Cellular Reprogramming: Dissecting the Molecular Mechanism and Enhancing Efficiency $1,458,000
Palo Alto Veterans Institute for Research Dr. Tony Wyss-Coray Basic Biology II Systemic Protein Factors as Modulators of the Aging Neurogenic Niche $1,159,806
Stanford University Professor Garry P Nolan Basic Biology II Kinase signaling analysis of iPS cell reprogramming and differentiation $1,343,100
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. Benhur Lee Basic Biology II The EphrinB2/EphB4 axis in regulating hESC pluripotency and differentiation $1,371,936
University of California, Davis Dr. Eric A Kurzrock Basic Biology II Differentiation of Human Embryonic Stem Cells into Urothelium $849,037
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. Yong Kim Basic Biology II Novel Mechanism in Self-Renewal/Differentiation of Human Embryonic Stem Cells $1,259,371
University of California, San Diego Dr. Kun-Liang Guan Basic Biology II The function of YAP in human embryonic stem cells $1,245,693
Stanford University Dr. Aaron J Hsueh Basic Biology II Maturation of Human Oocytes for SCNT and Embryonic Stem Cell Derivation $1,309,018
University of California, San Francisco Dr. John L Rubenstein Basic Biology II MGE Enhancers to Select for Interneuron Precursors Produced from Human ES Cells $1,387,800
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute Dr. Huei-sheng Vincent Chen Basic Biology II Endothelial cells and ion channel maturation of human stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes $1,587,610
University of California, Irvine Dr. Aileen J Anderson Basic Biology II Role of the microenvironment in human iPS and NSC fate and tumorigenesis $1,256,194
Stanford University Dr. Steven Edward Artandi Basic Biology II Self-renewal and senescence in iPS cells derived from patients with a stem cell disease $931,285
Salk Institute for Biological Studies Ronald Mark Evans Basic Biology II Molecular Characterization and Functional Exploration of Nuclear Receptors in hiPSCs $1,712,880
Calimmune, Inc. Geoff Symonds Disease Team Research I GENE-MODIFIED HEMATOPOIETIC STEM/PROGENITOR CELL BASED THERAPY FOR HIV DISEASE $8,278,722
Stanford University Dr. Gary Steinberg Disease Team Research I Embryonic-Derived Neural Stem Cells for Treatment of Motor Sequelae following Sub-cortical Stroke $17,244,851
University of California, San Diego Dr. Lawrence S. B. Goldstein Disease Team Research I Stem Cell-Derived Astrocyte Precursor Transplants in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis $5,694,308
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. Donald B. Kohn PhD Disease Team Research I Stem Cell Gene Therapy for Sickle Cell Disease $8,833,695
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. Irvin SY Chen Disease Team Research I HPSC based therapy for HIV disease using RNAi to CCR5. $9,905,604
ViaCyte, Inc. Allan Robins Disease Team Research I Cell Therapy for Diabetes $0
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