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, San Francisco Dr. Robert Blelloch Dr. New Faculty II Mechanisms of small RNA regulation in early embryonic development $2,790,695
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. Antoni Ribas MD/PhD New Faculty II Stem Cells for Immune System Regeneration to Fight Cancer $3,072,000
San Diego State University Foundation Dr. Ricardo M. Zayas New Faculty II The molecular basis underlying adult neurogenesis during regeneration and tissue renewal $1,712,225
University of Southern California Dr. Qilong Ying New Faculty II Mechanisms Underlying the Diverse Functions of STAT3 in Embryonic Stem Cell Fate Regulation $2,261,174
University of California, San Diego Dr. Benjamin D. Yu New Faculty II Regulation of Adult Stem Cell Proliferation by RAS and Cell-Permeable Proteins $3,017,978
University of California, San Diego Dr. Shyni Varghese New Faculty II A Novel Microenvironment-Mediated Functional Skeletal Muscle from Human Embryonic Stem Cells and their In Vivo Engraftment $2,300,569
University of California, San Francisco Dr. Holger F Willenbring New Faculty II Molecular dissection of adult liver regeneration to guide the generation of hepatocytes from pluripotent stem cells $2,832,008
Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles Dr. Tracy Cannon Grikscheit M.D. New Faculty II Mechanism of Tissue Engineered Small Intestine Formation $3,211,122
University of California, San Diego Dr. Mana M Parast New Faculty II Molecular Mechanisms of Trophoblast Stem Cell Specification and Self-Renewal $3,077,918
University of Southern California Dr. Gage Crump New Faculty II Skeletogenic Neural Crest Cells in Embryonic Development and Adult Regeneration of the Jaw $2,247,403
University of California, San Diego Catriona Jamieson New Faculty II Derivation and Characterization of Myeloproliferative Disorder Stem Cells from Human ES Cells $3,065,572
Stanford University Dr. Ching-Pin Chang New Faculty II VEGF signaling in adventitial stem cells in vascular physiology and disease $3,005,695
Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research Dr. Bing Ren New Faculty II Mechanisms of chromatin dynamics at enhancers during ES cell differentiation $1,726,564
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. Brigitte N Gomperts New Faculty II Stem Cells in Lung Cancer $2,381,572
University of California, Davis Dr. Paul S. Knoepfler New Faculty II Molecular mechanisms governing hESC and iPS cell self-renewal and pluripotency $2,157,255
University of California, San Francisco Dr. Jeremy Reiter New Faculty II High throughput modeling of human neurodegenerative diseases in embryonic stem cells $2,259,092
Gladstone Institutes, J. David Dr. Benoit Bruneau New Faculty II Induction of cardiogenesis in pluripotent cells via chromatin remodeling factors $2,723,653
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute Dr. Zhuohua Zhang New Cell Lines Derivation of Parkinson’s Disease Coded-Stem Cells (PD-SCs) $1,556,448
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. Jerome A. Zack Ph.D. New Cell Lines Generation of clinical grade human iPS cells $1,341,000
Stanford University Dr. Renee Reijo Pera PhD New Cell Lines Derivation and comparative analysis of human pluripotent ESCs, iPSCs and SSCs: Convergence to an embryonic phenotype $1,409,243
University of Southern California Dr. Martin Pera New Cell Lines New Technology for the Derivation of Human Pluripotent Stem Cell Lines for Clinical Use $1,266,134
Stanford University Michael T. Longaker M.D. New Cell Lines Derivation and analysis of pluripotent stem cell lines with inherited TGF-b mediated disorders from donated IVF embryos and reprogrammed adult skin fibroblasts $1,406,636
Stanford University Dr. Julie Baker New Cell Lines Derivation of hESC Lines with Disease Lesions $1,404,725
Scripps Research Institute Dr. Sheng Ding Dr. New Cell Lines Derivation of New ICM-stage hESCs $936,973
Gladstone Institutes, J. David Sheng Ding PhD New Cell Lines Derivation of New ICM-stage hESCs $778,859
Gladstone Institutes, J. David Dr. Bruce R. Conklin New Cell Lines Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells for Cardiovascular Diagnostics $1,708,560
Stanford University Dr. Michele Calos New Cell Lines Safe, efficient creation of human induced pluripotent stem cells without the use of retroviruses $1,406,875
University of California, San Francisco Dr. Susan J Fisher PhD New Cell Lines Optimization of Human Embryonic Stem Cell Derivation Techniques and Production/Distribution of GMP-Grade Lines $1,383,419
University of California, San Francisco Dr. Miguel Ramalho-Santos New Cell Lines Somatic cell age and memory in the generation of iPS cells $1,307,201
University of California, San Francisco Dr. Long-cheng Li New Cell Lines Induction of pluripotent stem cells by small RNA-guided transcriptional activation $1,368,461
Gladstone Institutes, J. David Robert V Farese New Cell Lines Establishment of Frontotemporal Dementia Patient-Specific Induced Pluripotent Stem (iPS) Cell Lines with Defined Genetic Mutations $1,696,424
Salk Institute for Biological Studies Dr. Fred H Gage New Cell Lines Development of Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells for Modeling Human Disease $1,737,720
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. Amander Clark Dr. New Cell Lines Generation of Pluripotent Cell Lines from Human Embryos $1,167,416
University of California, Irvine Dr. Leslie M Thompson New Cell Lines New Cell Lines for Huntington’s Disease $1,302,526
University of California, San Diego Dr. Steven F Dowdy New Cell Lines Protein transduction of transcription factors: a non-genetic approach to generate new pluripotent cell lines from human skin. $1,073,585
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
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