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
University of California, Davis Dr. Mark Zern Comprehensive Grant An in vitro and in vivo comparison among three different human hepatic stem cell populations. $2,251,223
Stanford University Professor Irving L Weissman MD Comprehensive Grant Prospective isolation of hESC-derived hematopoietic and cardiomyocyte stem cells $2,471,386
University of California, San Francisco Dr. Andrew D. Leavitt MD Comprehensive Grant Understanding hESC-based Hematopoiesis for Therapeutic Benefit $2,460,822
University of California, Irvine Dr Hans S Keirstead Comprehensive Grant hESC-Derived Motor Neurons For the Treatment of Cervical Spinal Cord Injury $2,158,445
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. Jerome A. Zack Ph.D. Comprehensive Grant Human Embryonic Stem Cell Therapeutic Strategies to Target HIV Disease $2,401,903
University of California, San Diego Dr. Yang Xu Comprehensive Grant Mechanisms to maintain the self-renewal and genetic stability of human embryonic stem cells $2,467,200
University of California, Davis Dr. Alice F Tarantal Comprehensive Grant Preclinical Model for Labeling, Transplant, and In Vivo Imaging of Differentiated Human Embryonic Stem Cells $2,166,757
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute Dr. Stuart A Lipton Comprehensive Grant MEF2C-Directed Neurogenesis From Human Embryonic Stem Cells $2,832,000
Stanford University Dr. Stefan Heller Comprehensive Grant Generation of inner ear sensory cells from human ES cells toward a cure for deafness $2,330,371
University of California, Irvine Dr. Peter John Donovan Comprehensive Grant Improved hES Cell Growth and Differentiation $2,381,713
Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles Dr. Gay M. Crooks Comprehensive Grant Regulated Expansion of Lympho-hematopoietic Stem and Progenitor Cells from Human Embryonic Stem Cells (hESC) $575,994
University of California, Los Angeles UCLA Gay M Crooks Comprehensive Grant Regulated Expansion of Lympho-hematopoietic Stem and Progenitor Cells from Human Embryonic Stem Cells (hESC) $1,653,416
University of California, San Francisco Dr. Samuel Pleasure Comprehensive Grant Human stem cell derived oligodendrocytes for treatment of stroke and MS $2,459,235
University of California, San Francisco Dr. Harold S Bernstein Dr. Comprehensive Grant Modeling Myocardial Therapy with Human Embryonic Stem Cells $2,134,694
Stanford University Dr. Roel Nusse Comprehensive Grant Guiding the developmental program of human embryonic stem cells by isolated Wnt factors $1,710,462
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. Guoping Fan Dr. Comprehensive Grant Epigenetic gene regulation during the differentiation of human embryonic stem cells: Impact on neural repair $2,412,995
University of California, San Diego Prof. Martin Marsala Comprehensive Grant Spinal ischemic paraplegia: modulation by human embryonic stem cell implant. $2,356,090
Gladstone Institutes, J. David Dr. Deepak Srivastava Comprehensive Grant microRNA Regulation of Cardiomyocyte Differentiation from Human Embryonic Stem Cells $2,994,719
Salk Institute for Biological Studies Dr. Fred H Gage Comprehensive Grant Molecular and Cellular Transitions from ES Cells to Mature Functioning Human Neurons $2,749,293
Stanford University Dr. Renee Reijo Pera PhD Comprehensive Grant Human oocyte development for genetic, pharmacological and reprogramming applications $2,298,411
University of California, San Francisco Dr. Susan J Fisher PhD Comprehensive Grant Constructing a fate map of the human embryo $2,430,487
University of California, Irvine Dr. Douglas C. Wallace Comprehensive Grant The Dangers of Mitochondrial DNA Heteroplasmy in Stem Cells Created by Therapeutic Cloning $1,790,133
University of California, San Francisco Dr. Arnold Kriegstein MD, PhD Comprehensive Grant Derivation of Inhibitory Nerve Cells from Human Embryonic Stem Cells $2,410,874
Stanford University Dr. Christopher K. Zarins Comprehensive Grant Engineering a Cardiovascular Tissue Graft from Human Embryonic Stem Cells $2,454,490
Stanford University Dr. Theo D. Palmer PhD Comprehensive Grant Immunology of neural stem cell fate and function $2,396,000
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute Dr. Mark Mercola Comprehensive Grant Chemical Genetic Approach to Production of hESC-derived Cardiomyocytes $2,832,000
University of California, San Francisco Dr. Randall James Lee Comprehensive Grant Embryonic Stem Cell-Derived Therapies Targeting Cardiac Ischemic Disease $2,424,353
University of California, San Diego Dr. Lawrence S. B. Goldstein Comprehensive Grant Using Human Embryonic Stem Cells to Understand and to Develop New Therapies for Alzheimer’s Disease $1,859,414
Stanford University Dr. Julie Baker Comprehensive Grant Functional Genomic Analysis of Chemically Defined Human Embryonic Stem Cells $2,518,303
University of California, Irvine Dr. Kyoko Yokomori SEED Grant Derivation and characterization of human ES cells from FSHD embryos $607,200
University of California, Davis Dr. Ebenezer N Yamoah SEED Grant Hair Cells and Spiral Ganglion Neuron Differentiation from Human Embryonic Stem Cells $458,071
University of California, San Francisco Dr. Holger F Willenbring SEED Grant Induction of pluripotency in fibroblasts by fusion with enucleated human embryonic stem cell syncytia $329,245
University of California, San Francisco Dr. Thea D. Tlsty PhD SEED Grant Role of the tumor suppressor gene, p16INK4a, in regulating stem cell phenotypes in embryonic stem cells and human epithelial cells. $614,784
University of California, Irvine Dr. Vincent Procaccio SEED Grant Mitochondrial Dysfunction in Embryonic Stem Cells $245,397
University of California, Irvine Dr. Grant R MacGregor SEED Grant Production of Oocytes from Human ES Cells $385,466
University of California, Irvine Thomas Edward Lane SEED Grant Human Embryonic Stem Cells and Remyelination in a Viral Model of Demyelination $368,081
Stanford University Dr. Aaron J Hsueh SEED Grant Patient-specific cells with nuclear transfer $629,653
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. Noriyuki Kasahara SEED Grant Down-Regulation of Alloreactive Immune Responses to hES Cell-Derived Graft Tissues $399,239
Stanford University Dr. Joseph C. Wu SEED Grant In Vivo Imaging of Human Embryonic Stem Cell Derivatives and Tumorigenicity $623,634
University of California, San Diego Dr. Benhai Zheng Dr. SEED Grant Genetic manipulation of human embryonic stem cells and its application in studying CNS development and repair $600,441
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute Dr. Zhuohua Zhang SEED Grant Modeling Parkinson’s Disease Using Human Embryonic Stem Cells $701,060
Stanford University Dr. Kenneth Weinberg SEED Grant Embryonic stem cell-derived thymic epithelial cells $628,793
University of Southern California Dr. Qilong Ying SEED Grant Self-renewal of human embryonic stem cells $621,421
University of California, Davis Professor A. Hari Reddi SEED Grant hESCs for Articular Cartilage Regeneration $301,703
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. Hanna Mikkola SEED Grant Improving microenvironments to promote hematopoietic stem cell development from human embryonic stem cells $550,241
University of California, Berkeley Dr. Ellen A. Robey SEED Grant In Vitro Differentiation of T cells from Human Embryonic Stem Cells. $477,894
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute Dr. Robert G. Oshima SEED Grant Trophoblast differentiation of human ES cells. $696,354
Salk Institute for Biological Studies Prof. Samuel Lawrence Pfaff SEED Grant Gene regulatory mechanisms that control spinal neuron differentiation from hES cells. $704,543
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. William Lowry Dr. SEED Grant Modeling Human Embryonic Development with Human Embryonic Stem Cells $528,096
University of California, Irvine Dr. Frank LaFerla SEED Grant Development of human ES cell lines as a model system for Alzheimer disease drug discovery $473,963
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