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
Scripps Research Institute Dr. Jeanne F Loring Conference World Stem Cell Summit $30,000
University of California, Davis Dr. Alice F Tarantal Conference 12th Annual Gene Therapy Symposium for Heart, Lung, and Blood Diseases $8,000
Stanford University Dr. Julien Sage Conference 3rd International RB conference $10,000
Lineage Cell Therapeutics, Inc. Francois Binette Strategic Partnership III Track A A Phase I/IIa Dose Escalation Safety Study of AST-OPC1 in Patients with Cervical Sensorimotor Complete Spinal Cord Injury $14,323,318
City of Hope, Beckman Research Institute Prof. John A. Zaia Strategic Partnership III Track A A Phase I, Open-Label Study To Assess The Safety, Feasibility and Engraftment of Zinc Finger Nucleases (ZFN) CCR5 Modified Autologous CD34+ Hematopoietic Stem/Progenitor Cells (SB-728MR-HSPC) with Escalating Doses of Busulfan In HIV-1 (R5) Infected Sub… $5,583,438
University of California, Santa Cruz Dr. Joshua M Stuart Genomics Centers of Excellence Awards (R) Center of Excellence for Stem Cell Genomics – UCSC $3,999,083
Salk Institute for Biological Studies Dr. Joseph R Ecker Genomics Centers of Excellence Awards (R) Center of Excellence for Stem Cell Genomics – Salk $13,201,635
Stanford University Dr. Michael P Snyder PhD Genomics Centers of Excellence Awards (R) Center of Excellence for Stem Cell Genomics – Stanford $22,787,914
Stanford University Dr. Robert Robbins Disease Team Planning {REDACTED} Cardiovascular Regenerative Team $25,119
University of California, San Diego Dr. Dennis Carson Disease Team Planning CIRM Planning Grant in Leukemia $52,174
City of Hope, Beckman Research Institute Dr. Michael E. Barish Ph, D. Disease Team Planning Genetically-modified neural stem cells for treatment of high-grade glioma $55,000
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute Mark Mercola Disease Team Planning “Stem Cell Therapies for Heart Failure” $44,450
Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles Dr. Donald B. Kohn Disease Team Planning STEM CELL GENE THERAPY FOR SICKLE CELL DISEASE $12,131
University of California, Irvine Dr. Leslie M Thompson Disease Team Planning Huntington’s Disease Team $41,953
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Dr. Eduardo Marbán Disease Team Planning {REDACTED} Heart Disease Regenerative Medicine Team Planning Award $38,980
UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland Dr. Mark C. Walters M.D. Disease Team Planning CIRM Disease Team Planning Award $16,939
Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research Dr. Webster K. Cavenee Disease Team Planning Stem Cell-Mediated Oncocidal Therapy of Primary & Metastatic Brain Tumors $3,867
University of California, Irvine Dr. Henry John Klassen Disease Team Planning Stem cells for neuroprotection of photoreceptors in retinitis pigmentosa $23,537
Buck Institute for Age Research Dr. Xianmin Zeng Disease Team Planning Develop a cell replacement therapy for Parkinson’s disease using human embryonic stem cells $37,161
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. Irvin SY Chen Disease Team Planning Stem Cell Therapy for AIDS- Disease Team Planning $51,490
University of California, San Diego Lawrence Goldstein Disease Team Planning Human Stem Cell Approaches to Alzheimers Disease Therapies $55,000
Stanford University Dr. Thomas A. Rando MD, PhD Disease Team Planning Stem Cell Therapy for Muscular Dystrophy $0
ViaCyte, Inc. Dr. Emmanuel Edward Baetge Disease Team Planning Development of a Cell Replacement Therapy Product for Insulin Dependent Diabetes $48,950
Gladstone Institutes, J. David Dr. Deepak Srivastava Disease Team Planning Pluripotent Stem Cell–Based Therapy for Heart Disease $13,505
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. Stanley Thomas Carmichael Disease Team Planning Development of a Stem Cell Therapy to Promote Functional Recovery in Stroke $42,748
Salk Institute for Biological Studies Prof. Samuel Lawrence Pfaff Disease Team Planning Motor neuron diseases: Finding cures through basic, translational, and clinical collaboration $51,266
University of Southern California Dr. Mark S Humayun Disease Team Planning Stem cell based treatment strategy for Age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD) $3,088
University of California, San Francisco Professor Jeffrey Charles Lotz Disease Team Planning A CIRM Disease Team for the Repair of Traumatically Injured and Arthritic Cartilage $33,172
University of Southern California Dr. David Timothy Woodley Disease Team Planning Clinical Regenerative Wound Healing With Stem Cells $33,626
University of California, San Francisco Dr. Jeffrey A Bluestone Disease Team Planning A CIRM Disease Team for the Treatment and Cure of Diabetes $55,000
University of Southern California Dr. Chrysostomos L. Max Nikias Major Facilities Broad CIRM Facility at USC $26,972,500
University of California, San Francisco Dr. A. Eugene Washington Major Facilities UCSF CIRM Building $34,862,400
University of California, Santa Cruz Margaret L. Delaney Major Facilities UC Santa Cruz IBSC Facility $7,191,950
University of California, Santa Barbara Glenn E Lucas Major Facilities UC Santa Barbara Bio Sciences II $3,205,800
University of California, Merced John O. White Major Facilities Stem Cell Instrumentation Foundry $4,341,321
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. Gene D. Block Major Facilities UCLA CIRM Institute $19,854,900
University of California, Irvine Dr. Michael V Drake Major Facilities UC Irvine CIRM Institute $27,156,000
University of California, Davis Dr. Larry N. Vanderhoef Major Facilities UC Davis CIRM Institute $20,082,400
University of California, Berkeley Dr. George W. Breslauer Major Facilities UC Berkeley CIRM Center of Excellence $20,183,500
Stanford University Dr. John L. Hennessy Major Facilities Stanford SIM1 Building $43,578,000
Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine Edward Holmes Major Facilities Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine $42,827,439
Buck Institute for Age Research Mary McEachron Major Facilities CIRM Center of Excellence at Buck Institute for Age Research $20,500,000
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. Bennett G Novitch Basic Biology V In vitro modeling of human motor neuron disease $1,148,758
Stanford University Dr. Helen M Blau Basic Biology V Mass Cytometry to Delineate the Human Muscle Stem Cell Hierarchy and Dysfunction in Aging $1,175,357
Stanford University Dr. Marius Wernig MD, PhD Basic Biology V Mechanisms of human induced neuronal cell reprogramming $1,178,370
University of California, Irvine Dr. Peter J Donovan Basic Biology V Non-invasive live imaging of stem cell signature metabolic states $516,366
Palo Alto Veterans Institute for Research Dr. Thomas A. Rando Basic Biology V Molecular regulation of stem cell potency $966,510
University of California, Merced Dr. Kara E McCloskey Basic Biology V Directed Differentiation of Specialized Endothelial Cells $475,686
University of California, San Francisco Dr. Valerie Marie Weaver Basic Biology V Biophysical Determinants of Early Embryonic Stem Cell Fate Specification $1,186,500
California Institute of Technology Dr. David Anthony Tirrell Basic Biology V Engineered matrices for control of lineage commitment in human pancreatic stem cells $526,896
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