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.

Check out our portfolio of awards below. Click here to see a list of People We’ve Funded. Click here to see a list of our Funded Institutions.

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Institution Researcher name Grant Type Grant Title Award Value
Stanford University Kathleen M Sakamoto Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Small Molecules to inhibit Nemo-like Kinase for Treatment of Diamond Blackfan Anemia $846,638
University of California, Irvine Munjal M Acharya Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Stem cell-derived extracellular vesicles to reverse radiation-induced brain injury $1,064,108
University of California, San Francisco Dr Marisa Medina Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects iPSCs as a screening tool to predict risk of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease $813,000
University of California, San Diego Dr. Tannishtha Reya Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Targeting Critical Regulators of Cancer Stem Cells $1,148,264
University of California, Davis Dr. Deborah K Lieu Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Building a hiPSC-based biopacemaker $1,260,827
City of Hope, Beckman Research Institute Professor Yanhong Shi Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Combating COVID-19 using human PSC-derived NK cells $249,998
University of California, San Diego Tariq M Rana Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Development of COVID-19 Antiviral Therapy Using Human iPSC-Derived Lung Organoids $250,000
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. Thomas Carmichael M.D., Ph.D. Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Human-induced pluripotent stem cell-derived glial enriched progenitors to treat white matter stroke and vascular dementia. $250,000
University of California, Irvine Robert F. Hunt Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Optimization of a human interneuron cell therapy for traumatic brain injury $240,000
University of Southern California Dr. Justin K Ichida Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Development of a SYF2 antisense oligonucleotide (ASO) treatment for ALS $222,300
University of California, Irvine Dr. Mathew Mark Blurton-Jones Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Transplantation of Pluripotent Stem Cell Derived Microglia for the Treatment of Adult-onset Leukoencephalopathy (HDLS/ALSP) $214,668
Vitabolus, Inc. Aline Betancourt Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects The First Orally Delivered Cell Therapy for the Treatment of Inflammatory Bowel Disease $249,000
Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation at Harbor – UCLA Medical Center Dr Eiji Yoshihara PhD Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Dual angiogenic and immunomodulating nanotechnology for subcutaneous stem cell derived islet transplantation for the treatment of diabetes $250,000
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. Donald B. Kohn PhD Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Hematopoietic Stem Cell Gene Therapy for X-linked Agammaglobulinemia $219,230
University of California, San Diego Dan S Kaufman Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Human iPSC-derived chimeric antigen receptor-expressing macrophages for cancer treatment $222,200
Stanford University Alan G Cheng Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Modulation of the Wnt pathway to restore inner ear function $1,389,416
University of California, San Diego Prof James S Hagood Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Mesenchymal stem cell extracellular vesicles as therapy for pulmonary fibrosis $0
University of Southern California Dr. Neil Segil Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects A screen for drugs to protect against chemotherapy-induced hearing loss, using sensory hair cells derived by direct lineage reprogramming from hiPSCs $741,574
Salk Institute for Biological Studies Ronald Mark Evans Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Therapeutic immune tolerant human islet-like organoids (HILOs) for Type 1 Diabetes $1,637,209
Gladstone Institutes, J. David Li Gan Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Develop iPSC-derived microglia to treat progranulin-deficient Frontotemporal Dementia $1,547,157
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. Lili Yang Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Preclinical Development of An HSC-Engineered Off-The-Shelf iNKT Cell Therapy for Cancer $1,404,000
University of California, San Diego Dr. Eric D. Adler MD Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Genetically Modified Hematopoietic Stem Cells for the Treatment of Danon Disease $1,393,200
Stanford University Dr. Katja Weinacht Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Regenerative Thymic Tissues as Curative Cell Therapy for Patients with 22q11 Deletion Syndrome $1,251,720
City of Hope, Beckman Research Institute Dr Saul J Priceman Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Chimeric Antigen Receptor-Engineered Stem/Memory T Cells for the Treatment of Recurrent Ovarian Cancer $1,351,174
Stanford University Dr. Philip Arden Beachy PhD Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Pluripotent stem cell-derived bladder epithelial progenitors for definitive cell replacement therapy of bladder cancer $1,265,436
Scripps Research Institute Stuart A Lipton Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Drug Development for Autism Spectrum Disorder Using Human Patient iPSCs $1,827,576
University of California, San Francisco Dr. Hideho Okada Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Non-viral reprogramming of the endogenous TCRα locus to direct stem memory T cells against shared neoantigens in malignant gliomas $900,000
Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles Dr. Mark R Frey Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Universal Pluripotent Liver Failure Therapy (UPLiFT) $1,297,512
University of California, San Diego Dr. Jonathan H Lin Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Small Molecule Proteostasis Regulators to Treat Photoreceptor Diseases $1,153,937
University of California, Irvine Dr. Aileen J Anderson Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Generation and in vitro profiling of neural stem cell lines to predict in vivo efficacy for chronic cervical spinal cord injury. $1,575,613
University of California, San Francisco Dr. Shuvo Roy Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Silicon Nanopore Membrane encapsulated enriched-Beta Clusters for Type 1 Diabetes treatment $1,113,000
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. Scott G Kitchen Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Engineering Lifelong Cellular Immunity to HIV $1,701,178
University of California, San Diego Dr. Tannishtha Reya Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Targeting Cancer Stem Cells in Hematologic Malignancies $1,960,560
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. Thomas Carmichael M.D., Ph.D. Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects iPS Glial Therapy for White Matter Stroke and Vascular Dementia $2,086,130
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. April Pyle Ph.D. Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Identification and Generation of Long Term Repopulating Human Muscle Stem Cells from Human Pluripotent Stem Cells $2,148,519
Stanford University Dr. Kyle M Loh Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Towards hepatocyte cell replacement therapy: developing a renewable source of human hepatocytes from pluripotent stem cells $1,968,456
University of California, San Diego Mark H Tuszynski Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Neural Stem Cell Relays for Severe Spinal Cord Injury $1,638,900
Stanford University Dr. Helen M Blau Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Stimulating endogenous muscle stem cells to counter muscle atrophy $2,198,687
ViaCyte, Inc. Dr. Alan D. Agulnick Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Preclinical development of an immune evasive islet cell replacement therapy for type 1 diabetes $1,470,987
University of California, San Diego Dr Yang Xu Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Development of immune invisible beta cells as a cell therapy for type 1 diabetes through genetic modification of hESCs $1,924,791
Neurona Therapeutics Dr. Cory R Nicholas Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Development of a Cellular Therapeutic for Treatment of Epilepsy $1,616,536
City of Hope, Beckman Research Institute Dr. Saswati Chatterjee Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Genome Editing of Sinusoidal Endothelial Stem Cells for Permanent Correction of Hemophilia A $2,182,193
University of California, Irvine Dr. Brian J. Cummings Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Identification and characterization of the optimal human neural stem cell line (hNSC) for the treatment of traumatic brain injury (TBI) 2.0. $1,671,213
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. Vaithilingaraja Arumugaswami PhD Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Immunization strategies to prevent Zika viral congenital eye and brain disease $2,128,867
Rumi Scientific CA Ali H. Brivanlou Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Discovery of therapeutics for Huntington’s Disease $1,399,800
University of California, Los Angeles UCLA Gay M Crooks Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Platform Technology for Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived T cell Immunotherapy $965,636
X-Therma Inc. Dr. Xiaoxi Wei Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Non-Toxic, Highly-Effective Bioinspired Cryoprotectants for On-Demand Stem Cell Therapies $887,883
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. Caroline Y. Kuo Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Targeted Gene Editing in the Treatment of X-Linked Hyper-IgM Syndrome $1,512,333
University of California, Davis Dr. Deborah K Lieu Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Microenvironment for hiPSC-derived pacemaking cardiomyocytes $2,042,438
Stanford University Dr. Mark Mercola Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Multipotent Cardiovascular Progenitor Regeneration of the Myocardium after MI $1,809,234
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