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CIRM Board Approves Funding for New Clinical Trial Targeting Brain Tumors

South San Francisco, CA – Today the governing Board of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) awarded almost $12 million to carry out a clinical trial targeting brain tumors. This ...
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CIRM Awards Nearly $100 Million to Boost Discovery, Translational, and Clinical Disease Research

South San Francisco, CA, January 30, 2025 – The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM), one of the world’s largest institutions dedicated to regenerative medicine, has awarded nearly ...
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CIRM Announces Leadership Transition

South San Francisco, CA, Nov. 7, 2023– The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM), the world’s largest institution dedicated to regenerative medicine, announced today that Maria T.
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CIRM invests more than $42 million in translational-stage research

South San Francisco, CA, Oct. 27, 2023– The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM), the world’s largest institution dedicated to regenerative medicine, awarded $42.1 million to fund ...
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CIRM approves $73 million in awards for discovery research

South San Francisco, CA, September 25, 2025 – The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) has approved awarding more than $73 million across 23 grants to support discovery research ...
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Research Training Grant

The mission of California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) is to accelerate stem cell treatments to patients with unmet medical needs. The overall objective of the CIRM Research Training ...
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CIRM awards $4.7 million for vision loss gene therapy

South San Francisco, CA, May 29, 2025 – The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM), one of the world’s largest institutions dedicated to regenerative medicine, awarded $4.7 million to ...
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CIRM Announces Recommendations from Strategic Allocation Framework

South San Francisco, CA, September 27, 2024 – The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM), one of the world’s largest institutes dedicated to regenerative medicine, announced key ...
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CIRM awards $8 million to advance vision loss gene therapy to clinical trials

South San Francisco, CA, April 24, 2025 — The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM), one of the world’s largest institutions dedicated to regenerative medicine, has approved awarding ...
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CIRM marks 20 years of advancing regenerative medicine in California

South San Francisco, CA, Nov. 14, 2024 – The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM), one of the world’s largest institutes dedicated to regenerative medicine, marked a historic ...
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

Welcome to the frequently asked questions (FAQs) page of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM). Here, you’ll find answers to the most common questions you may have on CIRM. CIRM, ...
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Stem Cell and Genetic Research

When most people think about about stem cells treating disease they think of a stem cell transplant. In a stem cell transplant, stem cells are first specialized into the necessary adult cell type.