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
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
University of California, San Diego Dr. Kun Zhang Basic Biology III Functional characterization of mutational load in nuclear reprogramming and differentiation $1,295,318
University of California, San Francisco Jason Harris Pomerantz Basic Biology III Phenotypic Analysis of Human ES Cell-Derived Muscle Stem Cells $1,381,296
Scripps Research Institute Dr. Joel M Gottesfeld Basic Biology III Triplet Repeat Instability in Human iPSCs $1,705,494
University of California, San Diego Gene Wei-Ming Yeo Basic Biology III Neural and general splicing factors control self-renewal, neural survival and differentiation $1,287,619
Gladstone Institutes, J. David Dr. Deepak Srivastava Basic Biology III Mechanisms of Direct Cardiac Reprogramming $1,572,380
Stanford University Sean M. Wu Basic Biology III Elucidating Molecular Basis of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy with Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells $1,260,537
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. Ali Nsair MD Basic Biology III Characterization and Engineering of the Cardiac Stem Cell Niche $1,127,741
Stanford University Dr. Michael F Clarke Basic Biology III USP16 controls stem cell number: implications for Down Syndrome $1,263,826
University of California, San Francisco Dr. John P Murnane Dr. Basic Biology III Genomic instability during culturing of human embryonic stem cells $1,070,919
University of California, San Diego Dr. Benhai Zheng Dr. Basic Biology III Generation and characterization of corticospinal neurons from human embryonic stem cells $1,355,063
Stanford University Dr. Joanna Wysocka PhD Basic Biology III Enhancer-mediated gene regulation during early human embryonic development $1,420,618
University of California, San Diego Dr. Farah Sheikh Dr. Basic Biology III Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Human Cardiac Cell Junction Maturation and Disease Using Human iPSC $1,341,955
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. William Lowry Dr. Basic Biology III Molecular determinants of accurate differentiation from human pluripotent stem cells $677,115
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. Shuo Lin Dr. Basic Biology III Etsrp/ER71 mediated stem cell differentiation into vascular lineage $1,378,781

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