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.

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Institution Researcher name Grant Type Grant Title Award Value
University of California, San Francisco Semil P Choksi Inception – Discovery Stage Research Projects Generation of human airway stem cells by direct transcriptional reprogramming for disease modeling and regeneration $238,408
University of California, Irvine Janet E Baulch Inception – Discovery Stage Research Projects An exosome-based translational strategy to mitigate Alzheimer’s disease neuropathology $157,650
University of California, San Diego Dr. Tannishtha Reya Inception – Discovery Stage Research Projects Reprogramming human stem cells for blood cell generation $210,060
Stanford University Dr. Helen M Blau Inception – Discovery Stage Research Projects Prodrug innovation to target muscle stem cells and enhance muscle regeneration $235,834
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute Dr Alessandra Sacco Inception – Discovery Stage Research Projects Generation of expandable, self-renewing muscle stem cells for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy $252,000
University of California, San Francisco Sonja Schrepfer Inception – Discovery Stage Research Projects Hypo-immunogenic cardiac patches for myocardial regeneration $235,818
University of Southern California Biju B. Thomas Inception – Discovery Stage Research Projects A Novel Tissue Engineering Technique to Repair Degenerated Retina $215,133
Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles Dr. Senta Georgia Inception – Discovery Stage Research Projects Developing a personalized approach to beta cell replacement for patients with a genetic form of diabetes $179,995
Vitalant Research Institute Dr. Marcus Oliver Muench Inception – Discovery Stage Research Projects Modulating Liver Sinusoidal Endothelial Cell Permeability to Enhance Engraftment of Endothelial Cell Progenitors for the Treatment of Hemophilia A $180,000
Stanford University Jeffrey L Goldberg Inception – Discovery Stage Research Projects Embryonic Stem Cells for Corneal Endothelial Degeneration $235,836
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. Owen N Witte M.D. Inception – Discovery Stage Research Projects Identification of stem cell surface markers as potential therapeutic targets for advanced prostate cancer $209,160
University of California, San Diego Professor Alysson R Muotri Inception – Discovery Stage Research Projects Reverse transcriptase inhibitors as a novel therapeutic approach for neurological autoimmune disorders $210,060
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. April Pyle Ph.D. Inception – Discovery Stage Research Projects Novel Platforms to Enhance In Vivo Delivery of Skeletal Muscle Progenitor Cells from Human Pluripotent Stem Cells $230,400
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. Bennett G Novitch Ph.D. Inception – Discovery Stage Research Projects Organoid Modeling of Human Cortical Microcircuits $208,916
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Professor Clive Niels Svendsen Inception – Discovery Stage Research Projects Blood Brain Barrier (BBB)-on-Chip: Development and validation of a novel iPS-based microfluidic model of the human BBB $241,992
University of California, San Francisco Dr. Holger F Willenbring Inception – Discovery Stage Research Projects Generation of bile duct-competent transplantable human liver organoids $206,460
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. Arjun Deb Inception – Discovery Stage Research Projects Targeting progenitors in scar tissue to reduce chronic scar burden $230,400
University of California, Berkeley Dr. Jacob Ellery Corn Ph.D Inception – Discovery Stage Research Projects Genome editing for causation and reversion of MPN-associated mutations in human hematopoietic stem cells $235,800
Stanford University Dr. Philip Arden Beachy PhD Inception – Discovery Stage Research Projects Curing bladder cancer by replacing corrupted urothelium with differentiated hES cells $210,906
University of California, San Diego Dionicio Siegel Inception – Discovery Stage Research Projects New Methods for the Chemical Expansion of Hematopoietic Stem and Progenitor Cells $232,200
Stanford University Dr. Bertha Chen Inception – Discovery Stage Research Projects Autologous iPSC-based therapy for radiation induced bladder injury $235,836
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. Thomas Carmichael M.D., Ph.D. Inception – Discovery Stage Research Projects iPS-Interneuron Transplantation for Neural Repair after Stroke $229,396
University of California, San Diego Karl Karl J. Wahlin Inception – Discovery Stage Research Projects Microenvironment based optimization of retinal induction using CRISPR-CAS9 reporter pluripotent stem cells as an expandable source of retinal progenitors and photoreceptors. $232,200
University of California, San Francisco Andrew Stephen Brack Inception – Discovery Stage Research Projects Examining the efficacy of GDF11 antibody as a rejuvenator of aged human muscle stem cell capacity and muscle repair . $180,000
Stanford University Dr. Phillip C Yang Inception – Discovery Stage Research Projects Activation of patient-specific endogenous myocardial repair through the exosomes generated from the hypoxic iPSC-derived cardiomyocytes (iCMs). $234,619
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Linda Cambier Inception – Discovery Stage Research Projects Exosomal Y-RNAs as mediators of bioactivity of cardiac-derived cell therapy $181,063
CellFE Biotech Sewoon Han Tool Translational Research Projects Purpose built cell engineering for rapid manufacturing of stem-like cell therapies $1,187,250
Stanford University Professor Irving L Weissman MD Tool Translational Research Projects Purification of Human Hematopoietic Stem Cells (HSCs) for Clinical Stem Cell Transplantation $1,347,722
Defined Bioscience, Inc. Steven Douglas Rees Tool Translational Research Projects Development of a low-cost, clinical-grade iPS maintenance medium for enabling stem cell therapy manufacturing $999,848
HEALIOS NA, Inc. Dr. Norihiro Tsuneyoshi Tool Translational Research Projects Generation of human universal donor iPS cells $999,989
University of California, Davis Dr Jan A Nolta Tool Translational Research Projects T-Pure: Peripheral Blood Processing Tool for Point of Care CAR-T Manufacturing $1,217,954
Greenstone Biosciences, Inc. Paul D Pang Tool Translational Research Projects Cell Villages and Clinical Trial in a Dish with Pooled iPSC-CMs for Drug Discovery $1,350,000
Organos, Inc. Samuel Wall Tool Translational Research Projects Human iPSC-derived micro-heart muscles for high-throughput cardiac drug discovery $1,119,382
Stanford University Dr. Joseph C. Wu Tool Translational Research Projects A Novel, Robust and Comprehensive Predictive Tool Using Human Disease-Specific Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells for Preclinical Drug Screening $975,000
University of California, Davis Aijun Wang PhD Medical Device Translational Research Projects Living Synthetic Vascular Grafts with Renewable Endothelium $3,082,579
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Yuan Yuan Diagnostic Translational Research Projects A Rapid Clinical Digital Patient-derived Organoid to Guide Breast Cancer Treatment Decision $1,535,375
University of California, San Francisco Dr. Steven Mack PhD Diagnostic Translational Research Projects Development of a Noninvasive Prenatal Test for Beta-Hemoglobinopathies for Earlier Stem Cell Therapeutic Interventions $633,014
UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland Dr. Henry A. Erlich Ph.D. Diagnostic Translational Research Projects Development of a Noninvasive Prenatal Test for Beta-Hemoglobinopathies for Earlier Stem Cell Therapeutic Interventions $1,074,177
Stanford University Sergiu P Pasca Therapeutic Translational Research Projects A targeted antisense oligonucleotide therapeutic strategy for Timothy syndrome $5,596,629
University of California, Irvine Dr. Michael Demetriou Therapeutic Translational Research Projects GlyTR2 CAR T cell translation: safe pan-cancer killing via velcro-like density-dependent targeting of cancer glycans $4,581,144
University of California, San Francisco Gregory Maness Allen Therapeutic Translational Research Projects FM-IL2 CAR T cells for Pancreatic Cancer $5,644,776
Entos Pharmaceuticals John Lewis Therapeutic Translational Research Projects Lep001 – gene therapy for the treatment of congenital lipodystrophy $4,000,000
Fate Therapeutics, Inc. Martin Hosking Therapeutic Translational Research Projects Development of an off-the-shelf iPSC derived CAR T cell therapy for the treatment of solid tumors $4,000,000
Navega Therapeutics Ana Maria Moreno Therapeutic Translational Research Projects Development of an AAV Epigenetic Gene Therapy for Gain-of-Function SCN9A Disorders and Chronic Pain $3,982,633
University of California, Los Angeles Roger Hollis Therapeutic Translational Research Projects Evaluation of an ex vivo lentiviral gene therapy for the treatment of Angelman syndrome $5,276,765
ReviR Therapeutics Dr Paul R August Therapeutic Translational Research Projects Genetic Therapy Targeting mHTT mRNA and Somatic Expansion to Treat Huntington’s Disease $4,618,687
University of Southern California David D. Tran Therapeutic Translational Research Projects A Novel Gene Therapy to Target Glioblastoma via Custom-Engineered Adenovirus-Associated Viral Vectors $5,927,454
NysnoBio GT Neurology Jennifer Johnston Therapeutic Translational Research Projects Parkin Gene Therapy for Parkinson’s Disease $2,450,510
Maro Bio Akanksha Chhabra Therapeutic Translational Research Projects A novel non-genotoxic antibody conditioning therapeutic to expand access to and safety of HSCT and CD34+ gene therapies $4,043,427
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. Donald B. Kohn PhD Therapeutic Translational Research Projects Hematopoietic Stem Cell Gene Therapy for Alpha Thalassemia $5,620,230
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