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, Davis |
Gerhard Gerhard Bauer |
Creativity Awards |
Internship at a Cutting Edge CIRM-funded Stem Cell Research Facility |
$250,064 |
| University of California, San Francisco |
Katherine Nielsen |
Creativity Awards |
UCSF SEP High School Intern Program |
$168,947 |
| University of California, Santa Barbara |
Lina Kim |
Creativity Awards |
Research Mentorship Program-Immersing High School Students in College Research |
$280,726 |
| UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland |
Vasanthy Narayanaswami |
Creativity Awards |
CHORI/UC Berkeley Summer Stem Cell Research Internship Program for High School Students |
$151,046 |
| Stanford University |
Paul J. Utz |
Creativity Awards |
SIMR Program: Stem Cell & Developmental Biology Research Internships |
$340,611 |
| Scripps Research Institute |
James R Williamson |
Creativity Awards |
Stem Cell Summer Academy: Creating the Next Generation of Scientists |
$205,122 |
| University of Southern California |
Roberta Diaz Brinton |
Creativity Awards |
CIRM STAR High School Summer Research and Creativity Program |
$271,160 |
| University of California, San Diego |
George Sen |
Basic Biology IV |
Regulation of Epidermal Self-Renewal and Differentiation by Histone and DNA Demethylases. |
$1,080,000 |
| Gladstone Institutes, J. David |
Dr. Benoit Bruneau |
Basic Biology IV |
Epigenetic regulation of human cardiac differentiation |
$1,568,148 |
| Stanford University |
Dr. Gerald R. Crabtree |
Basic Biology IV |
Mechanism and Utility of Direct Neuronal Conversion with a MicroRNA-Chromatin Switch |
$1,392,150 |
| Stanford University |
Dr. Roel Nusse |
Basic Biology IV |
Asymmetric stem cell division oriented by a local self-renewing signal |
$1,038,600 |
| Buck Institute for Age Research |
Deepak A Lamba |
Basic Biology IV |
3D Modeling of Retina using Polymer Scaffolds for Understanding Disease Pathogenesis |
$1,212,553 |
| University of California, San Francisco |
Dr. Jeremy Reiter |
Basic Biology IV |
Modeling disease in human embryonic stem cells using new genetic tools |
$1,387,800 |
| University of California, San Francisco |
Barbara Panning |
Basic Biology IV |
Investigation of the role of O-GlcNAcylation in SOX2 function during reprogramming |
$1,260,037 |
| University of California, Davis |
Dr. Deborah K Lieu |
Basic Biology IV |
Induction of Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Pacemaking Cells |
$1,333,689 |
| Stanford University |
Dr. Howard Y. Chang |
Basic Biology IV |
Long noncoding RNAs for pluripotency and cell fate commitment |
$1,386,627 |
| University of California, San Diego |
Miles F Wilkinson |
Basic Biology IV |
Role of the NMD RNA Decay Pathway in Maintaining the Stem-Like State |
$1,360,450 |
| Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute |
Dr. Huei-sheng Vincent Chen |
Basic Biology IV |
Studying Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Dysplasia with patient-specific iPS cells |
$1,579,250 |
| University of California, San Diego |
Ananda Goldrath |
Basic Biology IV |
Mechanisms to protect hESC-derived cells from allogenic immune rejection |
$1,160,997 |
| City of Hope, Beckman Research Institute |
Dr. Yanhong Shi Ph.D. |
Basic Biology IV |
Modeling Alexander disease using patient-specific induced pluripotent stem cells |
$1,366,656 |
| Cedars-Sinai Medical Center |
Eduardo Marbán |
Basic Biology IV |
Mechanism of heart regeneration by cardiosphere-derived cells |
$1,367,604 |
| University of California, San Diego |
Maike Sander |
Basic Biology IV |
Deciphering transcriptional control of pancreatic beta-cell maturation in vitro |
$1,258,560 |
| University of California, San Diego |
Dr. David Traver |
Basic Biology IV |
DECIPHERING THE INSTRUCTIONS FOR VERTEBRATE HSC SPECIFICATION AND AMPLIFICATION. |
$1,363,698 |
| University of California, Los Angeles |
Dr. Owen N Witte M.D. |
Basic Biology IV |
Trop2 dependent and independent mechanisms of self-renewal in human cancer stem cells |
$1,254,960 |
| Stanford University |
Ben A Barres |
Basic Biology IV |
Phenotyping Human Astrocytes in Health and Disease |
$0 |
| University of California, Berkeley |
Dr. Robert Tjian |
Basic Biology IV |
Transcriptional regulation of pluripotency in human embryonic stem cells |
$1,220,968 |
| University of California, Los Angeles |
Dr. Kathrin Plath Dr. |
Basic Biology IV |
Understanding the status of the X chromosomes in human ESCs and preimplantation embryos |
$1,382,400 |
| Gladstone Institutes, J. David |
Dr. Steve M. Finkbeiner |
Basic Biology IV |
Common molecular mechanisms in neurodegenerative diseases using patient based iPSC neurons |
$1,395,184 |
| Stanford University |
Alexander Robert Dunn |
Basic Biology IV |
Role of mechanical signaling in stem cell self-renewal and differentiation |
$1,062,998 |
| Stanford University |
Dr. Anne Brunet |
Basic Biology IV |
Energy metabolism and aging pathways in human stem cell reprogramming and differentiation |
$1,414,044 |
| University of California, San Francisco |
Dr. Miguel Ramalho-Santos |
Basic Biology IV |
Genetic dissection of human cellular reprogramming to pluripotency |
$1,184,883 |
| Gladstone Institutes, J. David |
Sheng Ding PhD |
Basic Biology IV |
A new paradigm of lineage-specific reprogramming |
$1,568,395 |
| Stanford University |
Michael Cleary |
Basic Biology IV |
Prostaglandin pathway regulation of self-renwal in hematopoietic and leukemia stem cells |
$1,244,455 |
| Stanford University |
Michelle Monje |
Basic Biology IV |
Stem Cell Mechanisms Governing Discrete Waves of Gliogenesis in the Childhood Brain |
$1,264,248 |
| University of California, San Diego |
Gene Wei-Ming Yeo |
Basic Biology IV |
Stem cell models to analyze the role of mutated C9ORF72 in neurodegeneration |
$1,260,360 |
| 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 |
