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.

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Institution Researcher name Grant Type Grant Title Award Value
Calibr Peter G Schultz Preclinical Development Awards Development of a Chondrogenic Drug Candidate Targeting Cartilage-residing Mesenchymal Stem Cells for the Treatment of Osteoarthritis $2,306,703
Scripps Health Dr. Darryl D. D’Lima Preclinical Development Awards Embryonic Stem Cell-Derived Chondroprogenitor Cells to Repair Osteochondral Defects $7,660,211
University of California, Davis Dr. Roslyn Rivkah Isseroff Preclinical Development Awards Scaffold for dermal regeneration containing pre-conditioned mesenchymal stem cells to heal chronic diabetic wounds $4,620,144
University of California, Irvine Dr. Leslie M Thompson Preclinical Development Awards A hNSC Development Candidate for Huntington’s Disease $4,951,623
Stanford University Dr. Matthew H Porteus Preclinical Development Awards Pre-clinical development of gene correction therapy of hematopoietic stem cells for SCID-X1 $874,877
University of California, Davis Dr. Diana L. Farmer Preclinical Development Awards Placental Stem Cells for the In Utero Treatment of Spina Bifida $2,182,146
Salk Institute for Biological Studies Dr. David R Schubert Preclinical Development Awards Human Stem-Cell Based Development of a Potent Alzheimer’s Drug Candidate $1,664,885
ViaCyte, Inc. Howard Foyt Accelerated Development Pathway I Clinical Development of a Cell Therapy for Diabetes $8,783,852
University of California, San Diego Catriona Jamieson Alpha Stem Cell Clinics Alpha Stem Cell Clinic for the Development of Regenerative Therapies $8,679,137
University of California, Los Angeles John S. Adams Alpha Stem Cell Clinics UCLA-UCI Alpha Stem Cell Clinic (ASCC) Consortium $8,680,000
City of Hope, Beckman Research Institute Prof. John A. Zaia Alpha Stem Cell Clinics The Innovation-Alpha Clinic for Cellular Therapies (I-ACT) – A Program for the Development and Delivery of Innovative Cell-based Treatments and Cures for Life-threatening Diseases. $8,416,531
University of California, Davis Dr. J. Kent Leach Tools and Technologies III Multi-modal technology for non-destructive characterization of bioengineered tissues $1,574,151
University of Southern California Dr. Qilong Ying Tools and Technologies III Embryonic stem cell-based generation of rat models for assessing human cellular therapies $1,326,979
Stanford University Sarah Heilshorn Tools and Technologies III Injectable Hydrogels for the Delivery, Maturation, and Engraftment of Clinically Relevant Numbers of Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Neural Progenitors to the Central Nervous System $1,347,767
Stanford University Dr. James C. Dunn Dr. Tools and Technologies III Skin-derived precursor cells for the treatment of enteric neuromuscular dysfunction $772,098
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. James C. Dunn Dr. Tools and Technologies III Skin-derived precursor cells for the treatment of enteric neuromuscular dysfunction $1,044,423
University of California, San Diego Dr. Shyni Varghese Tools and Technologies III Technologies to improve in vivo function of transplanted stem cells $1,373,683
University of California, San Diego Shaochen Chen Tools and Technologies III Development of 3D Bioprinting Techniques using Human Embryonic Stem Cells Derived Cardiomyocytes for Cardiac Tissue Engineering $1,368,264
University of California, Irvine Dr. Mathew Mark Blurton-Jones Tools and Technologies III Optimizing the differentiation and expansion of microglial progenitors from human pluripotent stem cells for the study and treatment of neurological disease. $1,147,596
University of California, Davis Dr. Laura Marcu Tools and Technologies III Multimodal platform combining optical and ultrasonic technologies for in vivo nondestructive evaluation of engineered vascular tissue constructs $1,834,350
University of Southern California Dr. Paula M. Cannon Tools and Technologies III Site-specific gene editing in hematopoietic stem cells as an anti-HIV therapy $1,495,665
City of Hope, Beckman Research Institute Joseph D Gold Tools and Technologies III Development of a scalable, practical, and transferable GMP-compliant suspension culture-based differentiation process for cardiomyocyte production from human embryonic stem cells. $891,518
Stanford University Dr. Fan Yang PhD Tools and Technologies III Injectable Macroporous Matrices to Enhance Stem Cell Engraftment and Survival $1,434,235
University of California, Berkeley Dr. David V. Schaffer Tools and Technologies III Engineered Biomaterials for Scalable Manufacturing and High Viability Implantation of hPSC-Derived Cells to Treat Neurodegenerative Disease $1,239,276
Stanford University Dr. Joseph C. Wu Tools and Technologies III Macaca mulatta as advanced model for predictive preclinical testing of engineered cardiac autografts and allografts $1,689,744
Stanford University Dr. Anthony E. Oro Tools and Technologies III A Chromatin Context Tool for Predicting iPS Lineage Predisposition and Tissue Graftability $1,391,125
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. Hanna Mikkola Tools and Technologies III A suite of engineered human pluripotent stem cell lines to facilitate the generation of hematopoietic stem cells $1,382,400
University of California, San Francisco Dr. Andrew D. Leavitt MD Tools and Technologies III Small molecule tools and scale-up technologies to expand human umbilical cord blood stem and progenitor cells for clinical and research use $1,416,600
Stanford University Professor Irving L Weissman MD Tools and Technologies III Identification and isolation of transplantable human hematopoietic stem cells from pluripotent cell lines; two steps from primitive hematopoiesis to transplantable definitive cells, and non-toxic conditioning of hosts for hematopoeitic stem cell transp… $1,271,952
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. Carla M. Koehler Tools and Technologies III A small molecule tool for reducing the malignant potential in reprogramming human iPSCs and ESCs $1,283,900
University of Southern California Dr. Toshio Miki Tools and Technologies III Development of a clinical-grade extracorporeal liver support system using human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived hepatic cells $1,257,011
Scripps Research Institute Dr. Jeanne F Loring Tools and Technologies III User-friendly predictive molecular diagnostic assays for quality control of stem cell derivatives for transplantation and drug discovery $1,728,390
University of California, Los Angeles Leif Havton Tools and Technologies III Development of a Relevant Pre-Clinical Animal Model as a Tool to Evaluate Human Stem Cell-Derived Replacement Therapies for Motor Neuron Injuries and Degenerative Diseases $1,308,711
University of California, Davis Randi Hagerman Conference Pathways of Neurodevelopmental Disorders (C8) $29,939
Stanford University Dr. Joseph C. Wu Conference Cardiovascular Tissue Engineering Symposium $25,000
Ocular Research Symposia Foundation, Inc. Dr. Gerald Chader Conference SIGHT RESTORATION THROUGH STEM CELL THERAPY $20,000
University of Southern California Qing Liu-Michael Conference USC/UCSF/UCLA Tri-Institutional Stem Cell Retreat $5,000
Vitalant Research Institute Dr. Shibani Pati Conference Cellular Therapies in Trauma and Critical Care Medicine: Forging New Frontiers $40,000
City of Hope, Beckman Research Institute Fouad Kandeel Conference 15th Annual Rachmiel Levine Diabetes and Obesity Symposium $20,000
University of California, Davis Dr. Alice F Tarantal Conference 13th Annual Gene Therapy Symposium for Heart, Lung, and Blood Diseases $10,000
Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine Dr. Edward Holmes Conference Stem Cell Meeting on the Mesa $40,000
Gordon Research Conferences Leonard I. Zon Conference 2015 Gordon Research Conference: Stem Cells & Cancer $20,000
University of California, San Francisco Dr Diana Jean Laird Conference The 2014 Santa Cruz Developmental Biology Meeting $3,000
University of California, San Diego Shu Chien Conference 10th Annual UC Systemwide Bioengineering Symposium $8,000
University of California, San Diego Shu Chien Conference The 14th UC Systemwide Bioengineering Symposium $5,000
University of California, San Francisco Dr. Emmanuelle Passegue Conference CA-HSCI 1st Generation Stem Cell PI Meeting $20,000
University of California, San Francisco Dr. Ophir Klein MD, PhD Conference Stem Cells Craniofacial Development and Disease $4,500
University of California, San Diego Prof. John M. Ravits Conference Cell Therapy for amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) -Testing the Limits: What should we use as preclinical standards of clinical trials? $7,193
Children’s Neurobiological Solutions (CNS) Foundation Alex Richmond Conference The Best Next Steps: Setting a Path for Advancing Pediatric Neurology $10,000
Vitalant Research Institute Shibani Pati Conference Cell Therapies in Trauma and Critical Care: Barriers in Translation from Pre-clinical to Clinical Development $18,440
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