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
Stanford University Professor Hiromitsu Nakauchi Progression Award – Discovery Stage Research Projects Using metabolic pausing for maintaining stable and high-quality pluripotent stem cells $208,422
Aspen Neuroscience Dr. Andres Bratt-Leal Progression Award – Discovery Stage Research Projects Autologous therapy for Parkinson’s disease: single cell RNAseq for in depth characterization of transplanted cells $177,579
University of California, San Francisco Mark C. Walters M.D. Conference – The 2019 Alpha Stem Cell Clinic Annual Symposium 2019 Alpha Stem Cell Clinic Symposium – Mending Stem Cells: The Past, Present & Future Regenerative Medicine $60,000
University of California, Los Angeles John S. Adams Conference – The 2018 Alpha Stem Cell Clinic Annual Symposium Delivery of Stem Cell Therapeutics to Patients $60,000
International Alliance for Biological Standardization Dr. Anthony Lubiniecki Conference – Manage a Symposium on Pluripotent Stem Cell Manufacturing Basis of Standardization for Cell Therapies $100,000
University of California, Irvine Daniela A. Bota Alpha Stem Cell Clinics Network Expansion A hub and spoke community model to equitably deliver regenerative medicine therapies to diverse populations across four California counties $8,000,000
University of Southern California Thomas Buchanan Alpha Stem Cell Clinics Network Expansion Alpha Clinic Network Expansion for Cell and Gene Therapies $7,999,983
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. Noah Carvajal Federman Alpha Stem Cell Clinics Network Expansion Expansion of the Alpha Stem Cell and Gene Therapy Clinic at UCLA $8,000,000
University of California, San Diego Catriona Jamieson Alpha Stem Cell Clinics Network Expansion UC San Diego Health CIRM Alpha Stem Cell Clinic $8,000,000
University of California, Davis Dr Mehrdad Abedi Alpha Stem Cell Clinics Network Expansion Alpha Stem Cell Clinic for Northern and Central California $7,999,997
City of Hope, Beckman Research Institute Dr. Leo D Wang Alpha Stem Cell Clinics Network Expansion The City of Hope Alpha Clinic: A roadmap for equitable and inclusive access to regenerative medicine therapies for all Californians $8,000,000
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Dr. Michael I Lewis Alpha Stem Cell Clinics Network Expansion A comprehensive stem cell and gene therapy clinic to advance new therapies for a diverse patient population in California $7,957,966
University of California, San Francisco Mark C. Walters M.D. Alpha Stem Cell Clinics Network Expansion University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Alpha Stem Cell Clinic (ASCC) $7,994,347
Stanford University Dr. Matthew H Porteus Alpha Stem Cell Clinics Network Expansion The Stanford Alpha Stem Cell Clinic $6,920,810
University of California, San Francisco Mark C. Walters M.D. Alpha Stem Cell Clinics Network Expansion University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) CIRM Alpha Stem Cell Clinic $5,087,847
UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland Dr. Mark C. Walters M.D. Alpha Stem Cell Clinics Network Expansion University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) CIRM Alpha Stem Cell Clinic $2,292,611
University of California, Davis Dr Mehrdad Abedi Alpha Stem Cell Clinics Network Expansion Alpha Stem Cell Clinic for Northern and Central California $8,076,421
City of Hope, Beckman Research Institute Prof. John A. Zaia Conference – The 2017 Alpha Stem Cell Clinic Annual Symposium 2nd Annual Symposium of the CIRM Alpha Stem Cell Clinics Network “Alpha Clinics – Making the Future a Reality for Stem Cell-Based Therapies” $79,287
The Regents of the University of California on behalf of its Riverside Campus Dr. Huinan Hannah Liu Conference – Manage The SPARK Annual Meeting Manage the 2024 SPARK Annual Meeting $110,000
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Wafa Tawackoli Conference – Manage The SPARK Annual Meeting 2023 CIRM SPARK Research Conference $100,000
UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland Ellen B Fung Conference – Manage The SPARK Annual Meeting 2022 CIRM SPARK Research Conference $79,336
University of California, Davis Gerhard Bauer Conference – Manage The SPARK Annual Meeting The 2020 SPARK Annual Meeting $22,876
Pathways to Stem Cell Science Dr. Victoria Fox Conference – Manage The SPARK Annual Meeting 2019 SPARK Annual Meeting $49,915
University of California, Davis Gerhard Bauer Conference – Manage The SPARK Annual Meeting The 2018 SPARK Annual Meeting $39,391
City of Hope, Beckman Research Institute Dr. Paul M. Salvaterra Conference – Manage The SPARK Annual Meeting Manage the 2017 SPARK Annual Meeting $22,555
California State University San Marcos Corporation James Jancovich Conference – Manage The Bridges Annual Meeting The 2022 Bridges Annual Meeting $137,297
California State University San Marcos Corporation Dr. Bianca Romina Mothé Conference – Manage The Bridges Annual Meeting 2020 and 2021 Bridges Annual Meeting $125,180
California State University San Marcos Corporation Dr. Bianca Romina Mothé Conference – Manage The Bridges Annual Meeting 2018 and 2019 Bridges Annual Meeting $291,622
San Diego State University Foundation Ralph Feuer Conference – Manage The Bridges Annual Meeting 2017 Bridges Annual Meeting $153,449
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. Brigitte N Gomperts Conference – Lung Regenerative Medicine Workshop Stem Cells for Lung Diseases – Overcoming Barriers to Find New Therapies $44,548
IQVIA, Inc. Dr. Amritha Jaishankar Translating Center A Translating Center designed to expedite the development and delivery of high quality stem cell therapies to patients $15,000,000
IQVIA, Inc. Peter Robinson Accelerating Center An Accelerating Center designed to expedite the development and delivery of high quality stem cell therapies to patients $11,772,453
University of California, San Diego Catriona Jamieson Conference – The 2016 Alpha Stem Cell Clinic Annual Symposium UCSD Division of Regenerative Medicine and CIRM Alpha Clinics Network Symposium $37,778
Mosaic Event Management, Inc. Ron Johnson Conference – Manage The 2016 Bridges And SPARK Annual Meetings 2016 CIRM Bridges & SPARK Meetings $205,388
Palo Alto Veterans Institute for Research Irene Lorenzo Llorente Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Inhibitory interneurons derived from human induced pluripotent stem cells to treat stroke $2,140,122
Novoglia, Inc. Dr. Sunil Gandhi Ph.D Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Gene-corrected human microglia for the treatment of adult onset leukoencephalopathy with axonal spheroids and pigmented glia (ALSP) $1,417,948
University of California, San Francisco Faranak Fattahi Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Drug discovery for gastrointestinal motility disorders using hPSC-derived enteric ganglioids $1,954,367
University of Southern California Dr. Justin K Ichida Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Development of a VAV2 antisense oligonucleotide (ASO) treatment for ALS $2,072,560
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Dr. Ritchie Ho Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects C9orf72 repeat expansion-tuned allelic suppression by CRISPRi as an ALS therapy $2,274,768
University of California, Davis Ricardo Anibal Maselli MD Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Treatment of Myasthenic Syndrome due to Choline Acetyltransferase Deficiency Using AAV9-mediated Gene Therapy $1,500,000
Adverum Biotechnologies Cameron Keast Baker Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Development of an Optogenetic Vision Restoration Gene Therapy Using an Engineered Form of Melanopsin $1,150,820
Stanford University Dr. Robert Negrin MD Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Orthogonal IL2 Receptor Transduced Regulatory T Cells for Clinical Application $1,920,652
University of California, San Francisco Michael Wilson Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects A First-in-Class Treatment for Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy Via Multimodal Immune System Engineering $2,182,396
Stanford University Dr. Michael F Clarke Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Developing a breast cancer stem cell drug $2,053,727
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Dr. Ke Liao Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects RNA-based therapeutics to augment regulatory T cells: a novel approach to treat myocarditis $2,264,509
University of Southern California Dr Linda Sher Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Assessing the Functional, Immunologic and Microbiologic Characteristics of Human Livers Created in Chimeric Pigs $2,736,590
City of Hope, Beckman Research Institute Dr Jianhua Yu Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Reprogramming Somatic Cells into iPSCs Engineered with an Anti-PSCA CAR to Develop Allogeneic Off-the-Shelf Cell Therapy to Treat Pancreatic Cancer $2,263,500
Vertuis Bio, Inc. Lukas Bachmann Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Expanded Capacity AAV Retinal Gene Therapy Enabled by Efficient RNA-Joining Technology $0
Gladstone Institutes, J. David Lyandysha (Lana) Viktorovna Zholudeva Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Excitatory spinal interneurons from human pluripotent stem cells to treat spinal cord injury $2,942,198
University of California, Los Angeles Prof. Song Li Quest – Discovery Stage Research Projects Vax-CT to promote formation of cancer-specific T memory stem cell for personalized cancer immunotherapy $2,267,714
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