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 |
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 |
Minutia, Inc. |
Katy Digovich |
Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects |
Immune cloaking of human stem cell-derived insulin-producing cells for curative cell therapy without immunosuppression |
$1,192,586 |
University of California, San Francisco |
Tomasz Nowakowski |
Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects |
Neuroimmune interactions in the developing human brain |
$1,626,000 |
University of California, Los Angeles |
Dr. M. Carrie Miceli |
Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects |
Interrogating Satellite Cell and Myofiber Defects and Repair in Human DMD using Single Nuclei/Single Cell RNA Sequencing of Muscle Resident Cells |
$1,578,000 |
University of California, San Diego |
Dr Marianna Alperin |
Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects |
Harnessing the rejuvenating capacity of pregnancy-associated factors to restore aged stem cell function |
$1,539,520 |
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute |
Aniruddha Deshpande |
Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects |
Investigating the SGF29/SAGA complex in regulation of normal and cancer stem cells |
$1,547,999 |
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center |
Tyler Mark Pierson |
Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects |
Modeling of GATAD2B-associated neurodevelopmental disorder and NuRDopathies: Investigation of cellular & molecular anomalies altering neurodevelopment |
$1,318,441 |
University of California, Los Angeles |
Michael F Wells |
Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects |
Village-based identification of human risk factors for viral neuropathogenesis |
$1,577,448 |
City of Hope, Beckman Research Institute |
Qiong Annabel Wang |
Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects |
Utilizing Age-Specific Adipocyte Progenitor Cells for Cell Therapy in Older Patients |
$1,508,997 |
Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation at Harbor – UCLA Medical Center |
Denise Al Alam PhD |
Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects |
Modeling and understanding alveolar hypoplasia in Down syndrome using iPSCs-derived alveolar type II cells |
$1,524,196 |
University of California, San Francisco |
Faranak Fattahi |
Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects |
hPSC-derived enteric ganglioids for cell therapy in gastrointestinal motility disorders |
$1,589,307 |
University of California, Los Angeles |
Dr. William Lowry Dr. |
Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects |
Defining the source of dysfunction in monogenic Intellectual Disability Syndrome neurons |
$1,500,337 |
University of California, Santa Cruz |
Maximilian Haeussler |
Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects |
An interactive data resource for hypothesis testing in stem cell single-cell gene expression and validation of the results with brain organoids |
$1,160,126 |
University of California, Los Angeles |
Dr. Kathrin Plath Dr. |
Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects |
Characterization and applications of human blastoids for understanding early human embryogenesis |
$1,402,137 |
University of California, San Francisco |
Tien Peng |
Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects |
Ex vivo fate mapping of human lung stem cell plasticity in fibrotic disease |
$1,625,998 |
University of California, Los Angeles |
Dr. Brigitte N Gomperts |
Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects |
Overcoming barriers for airway stem cell gene therapy for Cystic Fibrosis |
$1,472,858 |
University of California, San Francisco |
Erik Ullian |
Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects |
Modeling Retinitis Pigmentosa using patient-derived human iPSC organoids |
$1,380,543 |
University of California, Irvine |
Albert La Spada Ph.D. |
Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects |
Role of ataxin-3 polyadenylation site selection in ALS neuron toxicity and disease pathogenesis |
$1,514,416 |
University of California, Irvine |
Dr. Brian J. Cummings |
Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects |
Mapping the spatial and temporal responses of hESC-derived microglia to repeat mild closed head injury to identify therapeutic targets and mechanisms |
$1,339,685 |
University of California, San Francisco |
Tomasz Nowakowski |
Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects |
Identifying roadblocks to neural stem cell transplantation into human tissues. |
$1,551,394 |
Scripps Research Institute |
Xin Jin |
Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects |
Functional genomics to study cellular convergence across ASD risk genes in neurodevelopment |
$1,575,001 |
University of California, Los Angeles |
Dr. Gay Miriam Crooks |
Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects |
Engineering pluripotent stem cells for universally available, off-the-shelf T cell therapies |
$1,352,753 |
University of California, San Diego |
Dr. Alon Goren |
Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects |
Establishment of a novel approach to systematically study the dynamic organization of protein complexes in stem cells |
$1,515,601 |
University of California, San Francisco |
Dr. Elizabeth Crouch |
Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects |
Harnessing vascular stem cells to grow and protect the human brain |
$1,391,998 |
University of California, Santa Cruz |
Dr. Camilla Forsberg |
Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects |
Determining how age-specific heterogeneity of human hematopoietic stem cells and megakaryocyte progenitors contribute to thrombotic disease upon aging |
$1,336,800 |
University of California, San Francisco |
Yin Shen PhD |
Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects |
Understanding Chemotherapy-Induced Peripheral Neuropathy Mechanisms using CRISPRi and Chemical Screens in Human iPSC-Derived Sensory Neurons |
$1,621,913 |
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center |
Dmitriy Sheyn |
Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects |
The role of WNT and BMP signaling pathways in iPSC to iTenocyte step-wise differentiation for tendon repair |
$1,516,563 |
Gladstone Institutes, J. David |
Julia Kaye |
Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects |
Developing a Human Model of Sporadic ALS Using Machine Learning and Robotic Microscopy |
$1,406,622 |
Greenstone Biosciences, Inc. |
Dr. Mukhtar Mukhtar Ahmed |
Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects |
Drug Discovery for Dilated Cardiomyopathy using Patient-Derived Human iPSCs |
$1,350,000 |
Stanford University |
Dr. Marius Wernig MD, PhD |
Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects |
Developing a microglia replacement therapy |
$1,378,365 |
University of California, San Diego |
Heidi Cook-Andersen |
Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects |
Towards a trophectoderm stem-cell model representing human blastocysts of the highest implantation potential |
$1,584,000 |
University of California, San Diego |
Dr. Alexis Komor |
Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects |
Development of a stem-cell based approach to interpret global effects of genetic variants contributing to neurodevelopmental disease risk |
$1,518,982 |
University of California, San Francisco |
Dr. Robert Blelloch MD, PHD. |
Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects |
Development of universal off-the-shelf iPSC derived dendritic cells for use as patient specific anti-tumor vaccine |
$1,391,999 |
University of California, Berkeley |
Dr. Michael P. Rapé Dr. |
Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects |
Control of OCT4 abundance and function in human stem cells |
$1,234,023 |
University of California, San Francisco |
Harold A. Chapman |
Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects |
Modulation of human alveolar stem cells to promote lung regeneration and avoid pulmonary fibrosis |
$1,626,001 |
University of California, Los Angeles |
Dr Melissa Jan Spencer |
Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects |
Engineering AAV capsids for transduction of neural and muscle stem cells |
$999,999 |
University of California, San Diego |
Francesca Soncin |
Foundation – Discovery Stage Research Projects |
Drivers of trophoblast stem/progenitor cell identity in human placenta |
$993,881 |