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
City of Hope, Beckman Research Institute Joseph Shi Gold Tools and Technologies I Development of Suspension Adaptation, Scale-up cGMP Banking and Cell Characterization Technologies for hESC Lines $882,929
Vala Sciences, Inc. Dr. Patrick McDonough Tools and Technologies I Optimization in the Identification, Selection and Induction of Maturation of Subtypes of Cardiomyocytes derived from Human Embryonic Stem Cells $870,717
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. Michael E. Phelps Tools and Technologies I Novel Tools and Technologies for Translational PET Imaging of Cell-based Therapies $914,039
University of California, Irvine Dr. Orhan NALCIOGLU Tools and Technologies I A MULTI-MODALITY MOLECULAR IMAGING SYSTEM (MRSPECT) FOR IN VIVO STEM CELL TRACKING $719,798
Scripps Research Institute Dr. Jeanne F Loring Tools and Technologies I The Stem Cell Matrix: a map of the molecular pathways that define pluripotent cells $1,133,552
Scripps Research Institute Dr. Carlos F. Barbas Dr. Tools and Technologies I Development of a novel technology for precise, efficient, and safe genetic modification of stem cells $1,138,548
University of California, Santa Cruz Dr. Joel Alan Kubby Tools and Technologies I AO Wide-Field Microscope $549,551
University of California, San Diego Dr. Steven F Dowdy Tools and Technologies I TAT Cell-Permeable Protein Delivery of siRNAs for Epigenetic Programming of Human Pluripotent and Adult Stem Cells $720,000
University of California, Santa Barbara Dr. Dennis O. Clegg Tools and Technologies I Synthetic Matrices for Stem Cell Growth and Differentiation $599,404
Fluidigm Corporation Dr. Marc A Unger Tools and Technologies I Scaleup of Versatile, Fully Automated, Microfluidic Cell Culture System $749,518
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. Hsian-Rong Tseng Tools and Technologies I Microfluidic Platform for Screening Chemically Defined Conditions that Facilitate Clonal Expansion of Human Pluripotent Stem Cells $914,096
VistaGen Therapeutics, Inc. Dr. Kristina Bonham Tools and Technologies I Development of an hES Cell-Based Assay System for Hepatocyte Differentiation Studies and Predictive Toxicology Drug Screening $971,558
University of California, Berkeley Dr. David V. Schaffer Tools and Technologies I Directed Evolution of Novel AAV Variants for Enhanced Gene Targeting in Pluripotent Human Stem Cells and Investigation of Dopaminergic Neuron Differentiation $918,000
University of Southern California Dr. Martin Pera Shared Labs USC Center for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine: Shared Research Laboratory and Course in Current Protocols in Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research $1,724,015
University of California, San Francisco Dr. Linda C. Giudice Shared Labs The University of California San Francisco Shared Research and Teaching Laboratory: a Non-Federal Human Embryonic Stem Cell Resource for the Bay Area Community $2,144,758
University of California, San Diego Karl H. Willert Shared Labs Enhancing Facilities for Genetic Manipulation and Engineering of Human Embryonic Stem Cells at UCSD $1,728,080
University of California, Santa Barbara Prof Dennis O Clegg Shared Labs The UCSB Laboratory for Stem Cell Biology and Engineering $1,407,192
University of California, Irvine Dr. Peter J Donovan Shared Labs The University of California: Irvine Regional Human Embryonic Stem Cell Shared Research Laboratory and Stem Cell Techniques Course $2,107,376
University of California, Berkeley Dr. David V. Schaffer Shared Labs The Berkeley Human Embryonic Stem Cell Shared Research Laboratory $1,227,659
Stanford University Dr. Renee Reijo Pera PhD Shared Labs The Stanford University Center for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research and Education $2,439,590
Gladstone Institutes, J. David Dr. Deepak Srivastava Shared Labs The Gladstone CIRM Shared Human Embryonic Stem Cell Core Laboratory $842,672
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute Dr. Jeanne F Loring Shared Labs Collaborative Laboratory for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research at Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute $1,361,825
The Regents of the University of California on behalf of its Riverside Campus Dr. Prue Talbot Shared Labs A Stem Cell Core Facility for Studying Human Embryonic Stem Cell Differentiation $1,976,931
Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles Carolyn Lutzko Shared Labs The Childrens Hospital of Los Angeles hESC Facility $1,684,648
University of California, Santa Cruz Dr. Lindsay Hinck Shared Labs UCSC Shared Stem Cell Facility $1,849,452
University of California, Los Angeles Scott Waugh Shared Labs CIRM Shared Research Laboratories $2,000,000
University of California, Davis Dr. Alice F Tarantal Shared Labs UC Davis Translational Human Embryonic Stem Cell Shared Research Facility $2,000,000
Scripps Research Institute Sheng Ding PhD Shared Labs TSRI Center for hESC Research $1,440,164
Buck Institute for Age Research Dr. Xianmin Zeng Shared Labs North Bay CIRM Shared Research Laboratory for Stem Cells and Aging $2,414,749
Salk Institute for Biological Studies Garry Van Gerpen Shared Labs Shared viral vector facility for genetic manipulation of huamn ES cell $1,478,923
University of California, San Francisco Dr. Linda C. Giudice Shared Labs The University of California San Francisco Shared Research and Teaching Laboratory: a Non-Federal Human Embryonic Stem Cell Resource for the Bay Area Community $3,289,649
University of California, San Diego Karl H. Willert Shared Labs Enhancing Facilities for Genetic Manipulation and Engineering of Human Embryonic Stem Cells at UCSD $1,737,133
University of California, Santa Barbara Dr. Dennis O. Clegg Shared Labs The UCSB Laboratory for Stem Cell Biology and Engineering $1,638,357
Stanford University Prof Vittorio Sebastiano Shared Labs The Stanford University Center for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research and Education $3,434,600
Gladstone Institutes, J. David Dr. Deepak Srivastava Shared Labs The Gladstone CIRM Shared Human Embryonic Stem Cell Core Laboratory $1,698,515
The Regents of the University of California on behalf of its Riverside Campus Dr. Prue Talbot Shared Labs A Stem Cell Core Facility for Studying Human Embryonic Stem Cell Differentiation $1,663,284
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. Owen N Witte M.D. Shared Labs CIRM Shared Research Laboratories $1,751,297
University of California, Davis Dr. Alice F Tarantal Shared Labs UC Davis Translational Human Embryonic Stem Cell Shared Research Facility $1,728,111
Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles Dr. David Warburton Shared Labs The Childrens Hospital of Los Angeles hESC Facility $1,750,259
University of California, Santa Cruz Dr. Lindsay Hinck Shared Labs UCSC Shared Stem Cell Facility $1,719,722
Scripps Research Institute Dr. Jeanne F Loring Shared Labs TSRI Center for hESC Research $3,725,070
University of Southern California Dr. Andrew McMahon Shared Labs USC Center for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine: Shared Research Laboratory and Course in Current Protocols in Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research $3,411,861
University of California, Irvine Dr. Peter John Donovan Dr. Shared Labs The University of California: Irvine Regional Human Embryonic Stem Cell Shared Research Laboratory and Stem Cell Techniques Course $3,072,500
University of California, Berkeley Dr. David V. Schaffer Shared Labs The Berkeley Human Embryonic Stem Cell Shared Research Laboratory $1,673,221
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute Dr. Evan Y. Snyder Shared Labs Collaborative Laboratory for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research at Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute $1,805,884
Buck Institute for Age Research Dr. Xianmin Zeng Shared Labs North Bay CIRM Shared Research Laboratory for Stem Cells and Aging $3,478,933
Salk Institute for Biological Studies Dr. Inder M. Verma Shared Labs Shared viral vector facility for genetic manipulation of huamn ES cell $1,844,315
Benjamin D. Yu Dr. Benjamin D. Yu New Faculty II Medical School Loan Repayment Program $28,388
Gladstone Institutes, J. David Dr. Yadong Huang New Faculty II Defining the Isoform-Specific Effects of Apolipoprotein E on the Development of iPS Cells into Functional Neurons in Vitro and in Vivo $2,757,303
University of California, San Francisco Dr. Emmanuelle Passegue New Faculty II Mechanisms Underlying the Responses of Normal and Cancer Stem Cells to Environmental and Therapeutic Insults $2,124,488
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