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.
All CIRM Grants
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| Institution |
Researcher name |
Grant Type |
Grant Title |
Award Value |
| Geron Corporation |
Dr. Jane Stephanie Lebkowski Dr. |
Disease Team Therapy Planning I |
Preclinical Development and First-In-Human Testing of GRNCM1 in Advanced Heart Failure |
$0 |
| Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute |
Dr. Marcel Daadi Dr. |
Disease Team Therapy Planning I |
Neural Stem Cell-Based Therapy For Parkinson’s Disease |
$63,952 |
| Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute |
Dr. Stuart A Lipton |
Disease Team Therapy Planning I |
hESC-derived NPCs Programmed with MEF2C for Cell Transplantation in Parkinson’s Disease |
$96,448 |
| University of California, Davis |
Nancy E. Lane |
Disease Team Therapy Planning I |
Increasing the endogenous mesenchymal stem cells to the bone surface to treat osteoporosis |
$107,750 |
| University of Southern California |
Roberta Diaz Brinton |
Disease Team Therapy Planning I |
A CIRM Disease Team to Develop Allopregnanolone for Prevention and Treatment of Alzheimer’s Disease |
$107,961 |
| Samumed, LLC |
John Hood |
Disease Team Therapy Planning I |
Clinical Development of an osteoinductive therapy to prevent osteoporosis-related fractures |
$99,110 |
| Stanford University |
Dr. Robert Robbins |
Disease Team Therapy Planning I |
Human Embryonic Stem Cell-Derived Cardiomyocytes for Patients with End Stage Heart Failure |
$73,030 |
| University of California, Davis |
Dr. Martin Birchall |
Disease Team Therapy Planning I |
Airways for Children |
$19,800 |
| University of California, Los Angeles |
Dr. Antoni Ribas MD/PhD |
Disease Team Therapy Planning I |
Genetic Re-programming of Stem Cells to Fight Cancer |
$97,785 |
| California State University San Marcos Corporation |
Dr. Bianca Romina Mothé |
Bridges |
California State University-San Marcos CIRM Bridges to the Stem Cell Research Training Grant |
$4,114,712 |
| Cal State Univ, Long Beach |
Dr. Lisa S Klig |
Bridges |
CIRM Stem Cell Research Biotechnology Training Program at CSULB |
$3,487,091 |
| Cal Poly Pomona Foundation |
Dr. Jill Adler-Moore |
Bridges |
Cal Poly Pomona and Cal State LA Collaborative CIRM Bridges Program to Enhance Stem Cell Research Training and Education |
$3,056,191 |
| San Francisco State University |
Dr. Carmen Domingo |
Bridges |
SFSU Bridges to Stem Cell Research |
$4,168,243 |
| Humboldt State University Sponsored Programs Foundation |
Dr. Jacob Varkey |
Bridges |
The HSU CIRM Bridges to Stem Cell Research Certificate Program |
$3,195,858 |
| San Diego State University Foundation |
Ralph Feuer |
Bridges |
SDSU/CIRM Stem Cell Internship Program |
$4,156,315 |
| California State University, Channel Islands |
Dr. Nitika S Parmar |
Bridges |
Curriculum Development and Implementation of Stem Cell Technology and Laboratory Management Emphasis in an Established MS Biotechnology and Bioinformatics Program at California State University Channel Islands and Co-development of a GE Course on Stem Cel |
$4,165,092 |
| Berkeley City College |
Dr. Barbara Des Rochers |
Bridges |
Specialty in Stem Cell Biology |
$2,227,230 |
| City College Of San Francisco |
Dr. Carin Zimmerman |
Bridges |
City College of San Francisco Stem Cell Training Enhancement Program |
$2,649,780 |
| SJSU Research Foundation |
Tzvia Abramson |
Bridges |
San Jose State University Stem Cell Internships for Laboratory-based Learning (SJSU SCILL) |
$4,154,051 |
| Pasadena City College |
Dr. Pamela Eversole-Cire |
Bridges |
Bridges to Stem Cell Research at Pasadena City College |
$3,596,922 |
| Cal State Univ, San Bernadino |
Dr. Nicole Bournias-Vardiabasis |
Bridges |
CSUSB Bridges to Stem Cell Research |
$2,762,085 |
| Cal State Univ, Sacramento |
Lisa Hammersley |
Bridges |
Strengthening the Pipeline of Masters-level Scientific and Laboratory Personnel in Stem Cell Research |
$3,057,754 |
| The University Corporation at California State University, Northridge |
Dr. Cindy S Malone |
Bridges |
CSUN-UCLA Bridges to Stem Cell Research |
$3,814,078 |
| Cal State Univ, Fullerton |
Dr. Nilay V Patel |
Bridges |
Stem Cell Training Program at CSU Fullerton – A Bridge to Stem Cell Research |
$2,764,079 |
| Cal Poly Corporation, an Auxiliary of California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo |
Trevor Cardinal |
Bridges |
Masters of Science Specialization in Stem Cell Technology |
$3,480,357 |
| Stanford University |
Dr. Theo D. Palmer PhD |
Research Training II |
Stanford CIRM Training Program |
$7,017,629 |
| University of California, San Diego |
Dr Sylvia Evans |
Research Training II |
Interdisciplinary Stem Cell Training Program at UCSD II |
$7,432,600 |
| Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles |
Dr. David Warburton |
Research Training II |
CHLA Stem Cell Training Grant |
$5,020,920 |
| University of California, Los Angeles |
Kenneth Dorshkind |
Research Training II |
UCLA CIRM Research Training Program II |
$7,790,488 |
| Scripps Research Institute |
Dr. Ulrich Mueller |
Research Training II |
Training Stem Cell Researchers at the Chemistry-Biology Interface |
$3,697,326 |
| Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute |
Dr Alessandra Sacco |
Research Training II |
Type III CIRM Stem Cell Research Training Program |
$2,781,376 |
| Gladstone Institutes, J. David |
Dr. Robert W Mahley |
Research Training II |
Gladstone CIRM Scholars Program |
$4,869,300 |
| Buck Institute for Age Research |
Dr. Xianmin Zeng |
Research Training II |
CIRM Research Training Program in Stem Cells and Aging |
$1,472,416 |
| University of California, Davis |
Dr. Frederick J Meyers MD |
Research Training II |
UC Davis Stem Cell Training Program |
$4,838,291 |
| University of California, Santa Barbara |
Dr. Dennis O. Clegg |
Research Training II |
Training Program in Stem Cell Biology and Engineering |
$2,448,823 |
| University of California, San Francisco |
Dr. Susan J Fisher PhD |
Research Training II |
Training Program in Stem Cell Research at UCSF |
$7,814,027 |
| University of California, Berkeley |
Dr. Ellen A. Robey |
Research Training II |
Interdisciplinary Training in Stem Cell Biology, Engineering and Medicine |
$6,888,557 |
| University of Southern California |
Dr. Robert E Maxson |
Research Training II |
CIRM Stem Cell Biology Training Program |
$5,827,817 |
| Salk Institute for Biological Studies |
Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte |
Research Training II |
Training in the Biology of Human Embryonic Stem Cells and Emerging Technologies II |
$2,886,221 |
| University of California, Santa Cruz |
Dr. David Haussler |
Research Training II |
UCSC CIRM Training Program in Systems Biology of Stem cells |
$4,397,002 |
| University of California, Irvine |
Dr. Peter John Donovan Dr. |
Research Training II |
UCI-CIRM Research Training Program II |
$6,067,550 |
| City of Hope, Beckman Research Institute |
Dr. Michael E. Barish Ph, D. |
Research Training II |
City of Hope Research Training Program in Stem Cell Biology |
$2,197,782 |
| Geron Corporation |
Dr. Jane Stephanie Lebkowski Dr. |
Targeted Clinical Development |
Evaluation of Safety and Preliminary Efficacy of Escalating Doses of GRNOPC1 in Subacute Spinal Cord Injury |
$0 |
| City of Hope, Beckman Research Institute |
Dr. Jiing-Kuan Yee Ph.D. |
Basic Biology III |
Use of human iPS cells to study spinal muscular atrophy |
$1,268,868 |
| University of California, Los Angeles |
Dr. Yi Eve Sun |
Basic Biology III |
Studying neurotransmission of normal and diseased human ES cell-derived neurons in vivo |
$1,382,400 |
| University of California, San Diego |
Dr. Deborah H Spector Dr. |
Basic Biology III |
Viral-host interactions affecting neural differentiation of human progenitors |
$1,372,660 |
| Stanford University |
Dr. Aaron J Hsueh |
Basic Biology III |
Correlated time-lapse imaging and single cell molecular analysis of human embryo development |
$1,259,733 |
| University of California, Los Angeles |
Dr. Kathrin Plath Dr. |
Basic Biology III |
Discovery of mechanisms that control epigenetic states in human reprogramming and pluripotent cells |
$1,364,598 |
| University of California, San Diego |
Dr. David A. Cheresh |
Basic Biology III |
Molecular basis of human ES cell neurovascular differentiation and co-patterning |
$1,359,996 |
| University of California, San Diego |
Dr. Anirvan Ghosh Dr. |
Basic Biology III |
Investigation of synaptic defects in autism using patient-derived induced pluripotent stem cells |
$843,597 |
