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
University of Southern California Dr. Mohammad Pashmforoush New Faculty I Transcriptional Regulation of Cardiac Pacemaker Cell Progenitors $2,816,578
University of California, Berkeley Dr. Irina M. Conboy New Faculty I Identification of hESC-mediated molecular mechanism that positively regulates the regenerative capacity of post-natal tissues $2,246,020
University of California, Santa Cruz Dr. Bin Chen New Faculty I Molecular mechanisms of neural stem cell differentiation in the developing brain $2,147,592
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. Kathrin Plath Dr. New Faculty I In vitro reprogramming of mouse and human somatic cells to an embryonic state $2,229,427
The Regents of the University of California on behalf of its Riverside Campus Dr. Douglas Ethell New Faculty I ES-Derived Cells for the Treatment of Alzheimer’s Disease $621,639
Western University of Health Sciences Dr. Douglas W Ethell New Faculty I ES-Derived Cells for the Treatment of Alzheimer’s Disease $1,401,642
University of California, Davis Dr. Chong-Xian Pan New Faculty I Combinatorial Chemistry Approaches to Develop LIgands against Leukemia Stem Cells $2,386,409
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. Hanna Mikkola New Faculty I Mechanisms of Hematopoietic stem cell Specification and Self-Renewal $2,286,900
City of Hope, Beckman Research Institute Dr. Tiziano Barberi New Faculty I Skeletal muscle development from hESC and its in vivo applications in animal models of muscular dystrophy $131,840
Scripps Research Institute Dr. Kristin K Baldwin Dr. New Faculty I Generating pluripotent cell lines from neurons. $2,786,560
Salk Institute for Biological Studies Dr. Lei Wang New Faculty I Genetic Encoding Novel Amino Acids in Embryonic Stem Cells for Molecular Understanding of Differentiation to Dopamine Neurons $2,587,742
Stanford University Dr. Anne Brunet New Faculty I Molecular mechanisms involved in adult neural stem cell maintenance $2,348,435
University of California, Merced Dr Jennifer O Manilay New Faculty I Enhancing Survival of Embryonic Stem Cell-Derived Grafts by Induction of Immunological Tolerance $1,576,389
University of California, Irvine Dr. Andrew Putnam New Faculty I A Novel Engineered Niche to Explore the Vasculogenic Potential of Embryonic Stem Cells $395,764
Stanford University Dr. Joanna Wysocka PhD New Faculty I Trithorax and Polycomb methyltransferase complexes in cell fate determination. $2,373,903
University of California, San Diego Dr. David Traver New Faculty I Genetic dissection of mesodermal commitment to the hematopoietic fates. $2,150,620
University of Southern California Dr. Songtao Shi New Faculty I Oral and Craniofacial Reconstruction Using Mesenchymal Stem Cells $3,242,651
Scripps Research Institute Dr. Sheng Ding Dr. New Faculty I Reprogramming of human somatic cells back to pluripotent embryonic stem cells $1,393,876
Gladstone Institutes, J. David Sheng Ding PhD New Faculty I Reprogramming of human somatic cells back to pluripotent embryonic stem cells $1,320,101
Stanford University Karl Deisseroth New Faculty I Bioengineering technology for fast optical control of differentiation and function in stem cells and stem cell progeny $2,424,209
Stanford University Dr. Howard Y. Chang New Faculty I Noncoding RNAs in Cell Fate Determination $2,985,894
University of California, San Diego Jonathan Sebat ReMIND – Discovery Stage ReMIND Modeling the genetic basis of psychopathology in schizophrenia and autism $12,703,708
University of California, San Francisco Tomasz Nowakowski ReMIND – Discovery Stage ReMIND CIRM Center for Neuropsychiatric Stem Cell Proteomics $13,781,522
Scripps Research Institute Xin Jin ReMIND – Discovery Stage ReMIND Translational epigenomics: dissecting cell type-specific function of neuropsychiatric risk genes in vivo $11,376,314
Scripps Research Institute Stuart A Lipton ReMIND – Discovery Stage ReMIND Multiomic Studies of Idiopathic Intellectual Disability and Autism Spectrum Disorder (ID/ASD) $17,365,387
University of California, San Francisco Alex Pollen ReMIND – Discovery Stage ReMIND Deep phenotyping of human brain organoid models of autism spectrum disorder to unravel disease heterogeneity and develop biomarkers and treatments $12,297,272
University of Southern California Dr. Francesca Mariani Conference – 2024 CIRM Trainee Network Conference Manage the 2024 CIRM Annual Trainee Network Conference $400,000
EVERSANA Abbi Kalb Patient Support Program Patient Support Program to Improve Accessibility to Eligible CIRM-Trial Patients $2,485,000
Gladstone Institutes, J. David Dr. Bruce R. Conklin Shared Labs Grant – Enhancing/Expanding SRLs A Center for Stem Cell Disease Modeling and Therapeutics $4,000,000
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Arun Sharma Shared Labs Grant – Enhancing/Expanding SRLs Shared Resource Laboratory for Advanced Stem Cell-Based Modeling $3,999,995
University of California, Santa Barbara Dr. Dennis O. Clegg Dr. Shared Labs Grant – Enhancing/Expanding SRLs Shared Resources Laboratory for Stem Cell-Based Modeling in Stem Cell Biology and Engineering $3,991,879
Salk Institute for Biological Studies Dr. Fred H Gage Shared Labs Grant – Enhancing/Expanding SRLs Shared Resource Laboratory for Stem Cell-Based Modeling: Resources for Exploring the Biological Underpinnings of Aging and Age-Associated Pathologies $3,641,064
University of Southern California Dr. Nils O. Lindstrom Shared Labs Grant – Enhancing/Expanding SRLs CIRM ASCEND Center – Advancing Stem Cell Education and Novel Discoveries $3,663,163
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. Kathrin Plath Dr. Shared Labs Grant – Enhancing/Expanding SRLs A modular automation approach to stem cell modeling to increase throughput, reproducibility and access $3,999,999
University of California, Irvine Craig M. Walsh Shared Labs Grant – Enhancing/Expanding SRLs Shared Resources Laboratories to Enhance In Vitro Stem Cell Modeling and Training $3,641,396
Humboldt State University Sponsored Programs Foundation Dr Amy Sprowles Shared Labs Grant – Establishing SRLs Cal Poly Humboldt Shared Resource Laboratory for Human Stem Cell-Based Modeling (SRL-hSC) $4,399,888
University of California, Merced Dr. Kara E McCloskey Shared Labs Grant – Establishing SRLs UCM Resources for Expanding Stem cell-derived Tissues and Organs for Regenerative Engineering (RESTORE) $5,396,133
Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation at Harbor – UCLA Medical Center Denise Al Alam PhD Shared Labs Grant – Establishing SRLs Stem cell-based Parternship Resource for Investigating Human Diseases and Training (SPRINT) $5,400,000
City of Hope, Beckman Research Institute Dr. Nadia Carlesso Ph.D., M.D. Shared Labs Grant – Establishing SRLs Stem Cell-based Disease Modeling Shared Resource Laboratory $5,400,000
University of California, Davis Brian Fury Manufacturing Network Grant Creating A Collaborative California Cell and Gene Therapy Manufacturing Network $1,543,522
City of Hope, Beckman Research Institute Dr. Taby Ahsan Manufacturing Network Grant Scalable Expansion for Stem Cell-derived Therapies $1,998,174
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. Dawn Ward Manufacturing Network Grant Enhancing California’s Manufacturing of Leading-Edge Cell & Gene Therapies $2,000,000
University of California, San Francisco Dr Brian Rudolph Shy Manufacturing Network Grant Open Manufacturing Network for Cell and Gene Therapies $1,999,933
University of Southern California Mohamed Abou-el-Enein Manufacturing Network Grant Advancing Cell Therapy Manufacturing Through Collaboration $1,999,964
Stanford University Steve Feldman Manufacturing Network Grant Laboratory for Cell and Gene Medicine: A partner in the California Cell and Gene Therapy Manufacturing Network $2,000,000
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Dr. Dhruv Sareen Manufacturing Network Grant A comprehensive biomanufacturing center solving bottlenecks in cell and gene therapy manufacturing to accelerate new therapies for California patients $2,000,000
University of California, Irvine Dr. Aileen J Anderson Manufacturing Network Grant The UCI GMP Cell and Gene Therapy Manufacturing Facility $2,000,000
University of California, San Diego Dan S Kaufman Manufacturing Network Grant UCSD Advanced Cell Therapy Laboratory $2,000,000
Stanford University Xiaojie Qiu Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Mapping and modeling endothelial cell fate decisions for pulmonary arterial hypertension $1,540,798
Gladstone Institutes, J. David Dr. Steve M. Finkbeiner Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects Lewy body dementia, 𝛼-synuclein, and cell-specific mechanisms of neurodegeneration $1,739,760
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