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All CIRM-Funded Grants

All CIRM-Funded Grants
RFA PI Grant Title
Buck Institute for Age Research
SEED Dale Bredesen Programmed Cell Death Pathways Activated in Embryonic Stem Cells
Shared Labs Xianmin Zeng CIRM Shared Research Laboratory for Stem Cells and Aging
Major Facilities   CIRM Centers of Excellence
Disease Team Planning Xianmin Zeng Develop a cell replacement therapy for Parkinson's disease using human embryonic stem cells
Burnham Institute for Medical Research
Training Mark Mercola Burnham Institute for Medical Research CIRM Stem Cell Training Grant (Type I)
SEED Huei-Sheng, Vincent Chen Development of Neuro-Coupled Human Embryonic Stem Cell-Derived Cardiac Pacemaker Cells.
SEED Gregg Duester Retinoic Acid-FGF Antagonism during Motor Neuron Differentiation of Human ES Cells
SEED Hudson Freeze Role of Glycans in Human Embryonic Stem Cell Conversion to Neural Precursor Cells
SEED Ziwei Huang New Chemokine-Derived Therapeutics Targeting Stem Cell Migration
SEED Robert Oshima Trophoblast differentiation of human ES cells.
SEED Zhuohua Zhang Modeling Parkinson's Disease Using Human Embryonic Stem Cells
SEED Alexey Terskikh Analysis of Candidate Neural Crest Cells Derived from Human ES Cells
Comprehensive Stuart Lipton MEF2C-Directed Neurogenesis From Human Embryonic Stem Cells
Comprehensive Mark Mercola Chemical Genetic Approach to Production of hESC-derived Cardiomyocytes
Shared Labs Evan Snyder Collaborative Laboratory For Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research
Disease Team Planning Mark Mercola Stem Cell Therapies for Heart Failure
New Cell Lines Zhuohua Zhan Derivation of Parkinson's Disease Coded-Stem Cells (PD-SCs)
California Institute of Technology
Training Paul Patterson Training in Stem Cell Biology at Caltech
Ceders-Sinai Medical Center
Disease Team Planning Eduardo Marban Heart Disease Regenerative Medicine Team Planning Award
Childrens Hospital Los Angeles
Training Donald Kohn Stem Cell Training Grant
SEED Elizabeth Lawlor hESC as tools to investigate the neural crest origin of Ewing's sarcoma
Comprehensive Gay Crooks Regulated Expansion of Lympho-hematopoietic Stem and Progenitor Cells from Human Embryonic Stem Cells (hESC)
Shared Labs Gay Crooks hESC Facility
Disease Team Planning Donald Kohn Stem Cell Gene Therapy for Sickle Cell Disease.
New Faculty II Tracy Grikscheit Mechanism of Tissue Engineered Small Intestine Formation
Childrens Hospital Oakland Research Institute
Disease Team Planning Mark Walters CIRM Disease Team Planning Award
City of Hope National Medical Center
SEED Timothy O'Connor Sources of Genetic Instability in Human Embryonic Stem Cells.
New Faculty I Tiziano Barberi Skeletal muscle development from hESC and its in vivo applications in animal models of muscular dystrophy
Disease Team Planning Michael Barish Genetically-modified neural stem cells for treatment of high-grade glioma
Tools & Technologies Larry Couture Development of Suspension Adaptation, Scale-up cGMP Banking and Cell Characterization Technologies for hESC Lines
The J. David Gladstone Institutes
Training Robert Mahley The J. David Gladstone Institutes CIRM Scholar Program
SEED Warner Greene The APOBEC3 Gene Family as Guardians of Genome Stability in Human Embryonic Stem Cells
SEED Eric Verdin Role of HDAC in human stem cells pluripotentiality and differentiation
SEED Fen-Biao Gao MicroRNAs in Human Stem Cell Differentiation and Mental Disorders
Comprehensive Deepak Srivastava microRNA Regulation of Cardiomyocyte Differentiation from Human Embryonic Stem Cells
Shared Labs Deepak Srivastava CIRM Shared Human Embryonic Stem Cell Core Laboratory
Disease Team Planning Deepak Srivastava  Pluripotent Stem Cell–Based Therapy for Heart Disease
New Cell Lines Bruce Conklin  Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells for Cardiovascular Diagnostics
New Cell Lines Fen-Biao Gao Establishment of Frontotemporal Dementia Patient-Specific Induced Pluripotent Stem (iPS) Cell Lines with Defined Genetic Mutations
New Faculty II Benoit Bruneau Induction of cardiogenesis in pluripotent cells via chromatin remodeling factors
New Faculty II Yadong Huang Defining the Isoform-Specific Effects of Apolipoprotein E on the Development of iPS Cells into Functional Neurons in Vitro and in Vivo
Fluidigm
Tools & Technologies Marc Unger Scaleup of Versatile, Fully Automated, Microfluidic Cell Culture System
Gamma Medica-Ideas
Tools & Technologies Douglas Wagenaar A Novel SPECT Microscopy System for 3D Imaging of Single Stem Cells In Vivo
Human BioMolecular Research Institute
SEED John Cashman Discovering Potent Molecules with Human ESCs to Treat Heart Disease
Invitrogen Corp.
Tools & Technologies Ying Liu Generation of disease models for neurodegenerative disorders in hESCs by gene targeting
Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research
SEED Ren Bing Mapping the transcriptional regulatory elements in the genome of hESC
Disease Team Planning Webster Cavenee Stem Cell-Mediated Oncocidal Therapy of Primary & Metastatic Brain Tumors
New Faculty II Bing Ren Mechanisms of chromatin dynamics at enhancers during ES cell differentiation
Novocell, Inc.
Disease Team Planning Emmanuel Baetge Development of a Cell Replacement Therapy Product for Insulin Dependent Diabetes
Tools & Technologies Evert Kroon Development of the Theracyte Cellular Encapsulation System for Delivery of human ES Cell-derived Pancreatic Islets and Progenitors
The Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Training Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte Training in the Biology of Human Embryonic Stem Cells and Emerging Technologies
SEED Senyon Choe A method to maintain and propagate pluripotent human ES cells
SEED Beverly Emerson Regulation of Specific Chromosomal Boundary Elements by CTCF Protein Complexes in Human Embryonic Stem Cells
SEED Samuel Pfaff Gene regulatory mechanisms that control spinal neuron differentiation from hES cells.
Comprehensive Fred Gage Molecular and Cellular Transitions from ES Cells to Mature Functioning Human Neurons
Shared Labs Inder Verma Shared viral vector facility for genetic manipulation of human ES cell
New Faculty I Leanne Jones Characterization of mechanisms regulating de-differentiation and the re-acquisition of stem cell identity
New Faculty I Lei Wang Genetic Encoding Novel Amino Acids in Embryonic Stem Cells for Molecular Understanding of Differentiation to Dopamine Neurons
Disease Team Planning Samuel Pfaff Motor neuron diseases: Finding cures through basic, translational, and clinical collaboration
New Cell Lines Fred Gage Development of Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells for Modeling Human Disease
San Diego Consortium for Regenerative Medicine
Major Facilities   CIRM Institute
San Diego University
New Faculty II Ricardo Zayas The molecular basis underlying adult neurogenesis during regeneration and tissue renewal
Scripps Research Institute
Training Peter Schultz Training Stem Cell Researchers at the Chemistry-Biology Interface
SEED Peter Schultz A Chemical Approach to Stem Cell Biology
Shared Labs Sheng Ding Center for hESC Research
New Faculty I Sheng Ding Reprogramming of human somatic cells back to pluripotent embryonic stem cells
New Faculty I Kristin Baldwin Generating pluripotent cell lines from neurons.
New Cell Lines Shen Ding Derivation of New ICM-stage hESCs
Tools & Technologies Carlos Barbas Development of a novel technology for precise, efficient, and safe genetic modification of stem cells
Tools & Technologies Jeanne Loring The Stem Cell Matrix: a map of the molecular pathways that define pluripotent cells
Stanford University
Training Michael Longaker CIRM Training Program
SEED John Cook EC regeneration in cerebrovascular ischemia: role of NO
SEED Mark Kay Novel vectors for gene transfer into human ES cells
SEED Krishna Shenoy Technology for hESC-Derived Cardiomyocyte Differentiation and Optimization of Graft-Host Integration in Adult Myocardium
SEED Calvin Kuo Differentiation of Human Embryonic Stem Cells to Intestinal Fates
SEED Susan McConnell Optimization of guidance response in human embryonic stem cell derived midbrain dopaminergic neurons in development and disease 
SEED Julien Sage Functions of RB family proteins in human embryonic stem cells
SEED Thomas Wandless Reprogramming Differentiated Human Cells to a Pluripotent State
SEED Kenneth Weinberg Embryonic stem cell-derived thymic epithelial cells
SEED Joseph Wu In Vivo Imaging of Human Embryonic Stem Cell Derivatives and Tumorigenicity
SEED Joanna Wysocka Role of Chromatin Modifiers in Regulating Human Embryonic Stem Cell Pluripotency
SEED Phillip Yang In Vivo Molecular Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Human Embryonic Stem Cells in Murine Model of Myocardial Infarction
SEED Seung Kim Patient-specific cells with nuclear transfer
Comprehensive Julie Baker Functional Genomic Analysis of Chemically Defined Human Embryonic Stem Cells
Comprehensive Stefan Heller Generation of inner ear sensory cells from human ES cells toward a cure for deafness
Comprehensive Roel Nusse Guiding the developmental program of human embryonic stem cells by isolated Wnt factors
Comprehensive Theo Palmer Immunology of neural stem cell fate and function
Comprehensive Renee Reijo Pera Human oocyte development for genetic, pharmacological and reprogramming applications
Comprehensive Christopher Zarins Engineering a Cardiovascular Tissue Graft from Human Embryonic Stem Cells
Comprehensive Irving Weissman Prospective isolation of hESC-derived hematopoietic and cardiomyocyte stem cells
Shared Labs Renee Reijo Pera Center for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research and Education
New Faculty I Anne Brunet Molecular mechanisms involved in adult neural stem cell maintenance
New Faculty I Howard Chang Noncoding RNAs in Cell Fate Determination
New Faculty I Karl Deisseroth Bioengineering technology for fast optical control of differentiation and function in stem cells and stem cell progeny 
New Faculty I Joanna Wysocka Trithorax and Polycomb methyltransferase complexes in cell fate determination.
Major Facilities   CIRM Institute
Disease Team Planning Thomas Rando  Stem Cell Therapy for Muscular Dystrophy
Disease Team Planning Robert Robbins  Cardiovascular Regenerative Team
New Cell Lines Julie Baker  Derivation of hESC Lines with Disease Lesions
New Cell Lines Michele Calos Safe, efficient creation of human induced pluripotent stem cells without the use of retroviruses
New Cell Lines Michael Longaker Derivation and analysis of pluripotent stem cell lines with inherited TGF-b mediated disorders from donated IVF embryos and reprogrammed adult skin 
New Cell Lines Renee Reijo Pera Derivation and comparative analysis of human pluripotent ESCs, iPSCs and SSCs: Convergence to an embryonic phenotype
New Faculty II Ching-Pin Chang VEGF signaling in adventitial stem cells in vascular physiology and disease
Tools & Technologies Helen Blau Regulation of Stem Cell Fate in Bioengineered Arrays of Hydrogel Microwells
University of California, Berkeley
Training Randy Schekman Human Stem Cell Training at UC Berkeley
SEED Ellen Robey In Vitro Differentiation of T cells from Human Embryonic Stem Cells.
SEED Carolyn Bertozzi Profiling surface glycans and glycoprotein expression of human embryonic stem cells
Shared Labs Daid Schaffer Human Embryonic Stem Cell Shared Research Laboratory
New Faculty I Irina Conboy Identification of hESC-mediated molecular mechanism that positively regulates the regenerative capacity of post-natal tissues
Major Facilities   CIRM Centers of Excellence
New Faculty II Lin He The roles of non-coding RNAs in the self-renewal and differentiation of pluripotent stem cells
Tools & Technologies Robert Tijan Directed Evolution of Novel AAV Variants for Enhanced Gene Targeting in Pluripotent Human Stem Cells and Investigation of Dopaminergic Neuron Differentiation
Tools & Technologies Steven Conolly Magnetic Particle Imaging: A Novel Ultra-sensitive Imaging Scanner for Tracking Stem Cells In Vivo
University of California, Davis
Training Frederick Meyers UC Davis Stem Cell Training Program
SEED Ebenezer Yamoah Hair Cells and Spiral Ganglion Neuron Differentiation from Human Embryonic Stem Cells
SEED Hari Reddi hESCs for Articular Cartilage Regeneration
Comprehensive Alice Tarantal Preclinical Model for Labeling, Transplant, and In Vivo Imaging of Differentiated Human Embryonic Stem Cells
Comprehensive Mark Zern An in vitro and in vivo comparison among three different human hepatic stem cell populations.
Shared Labs Alice Tarantal Translational Human Embryonic Stem Cell Shared Research Facility
New Faculty I Chong-Xian Pan Combinatorial Chemistry Approaches to Develop LIgands against Leukemia Stem Cells
Major Facilities   CIRM Institute
New Faculty II Paul Knoepfler Molecular mechanisms governing hESC and iPS cell self-renewal and pluripotency
Tools & Technologies Alice Tarantal In Vivo Imaging for the Detection and Quantitation of Transplanted Stem/Progenitor Cells in Nonhuman Primates
Tools & Technologies Kit Lam Discovery of adhesion ligands for pluripotent human stem cells
University of California, Irvine
Training Peter Bryant Stem Cell Research Training Grant
SEED Frank LaFerla Development of human ES cell lines as a model system for Alzheimer disease drug discovery
SEED Brian Cummings The Immunological Niche: Effect of immunosuppressant drugs on stem cell proliferation, gene expression, and differentiation in a model of spinal cord injury.
SEED Thomas Lane Human Embryonic Stem Cells and Remyelination in a Viral Model of Demyelination
SEED Charles Limoli Using human embryonic stem cells to treat radiation-induced stem cell loss: Benefits vs cancer risk
SEED Grant MacGregor Production of Oocytes from Human ES Cells
SEED Vincent Procaccio Mitochondrial Dysfunction in Embryonic Stem Cells
SEED Kyoko Yokomori Derivation and characterization of human ES cells from FSHD embryos
Comprehensive Peter Donovan Improved hES Cell Growth and Differentiation
Comprehensive Hans Keirstead hESC-Derived Motor Neurons For the Treatment of Cervical Spinal Cord Injury
Comprehensive Douglas Wallace The Dangers of Mitochondrial DNA Heteroplasmy in Stem Cells Created by Therapeutic Cloning
Shared Labs Peter Donovan Regional Human Embryonic Stem Cell Shared Research Laboratory and Stem Cell Techniques Course
New Faculty I Andrew Putnam A Novel Engineered Niche to Explore the Vasculogenic Potential of Embryonic Stem Cells
Major Facilities   CIRM Institute
Disease Team Planning Henry Klassen  Stem cells for neuroprotection of photoreceptors in retinitis pigmentosa
Disease Team Planning Leslie Michels Thompson  Huntington's Disease Team
New Cell Lines Leslie Michels Thompson  New Cell Lines for Huntington's Disease
New Faculty II Edwin Monuki Mechanisms in Choroid Plexus Epithelial Development
Tools & Technologies Lisa Flanagan Novel Separation of Stem Cell Subpopulations
Tools & Technologies Orhan Nalcioglu A multi-modality imaging system (MRSPECT) for in vivo stem cell tracking
University of California, Los Angeles
Training Owen Witte California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) Type I Comprehensive Training Grant
SEED Irvin Chen Genetic modification of the human genome to resist HIV-1 infection and/or disease progression
SEED Zoran Galic Genetic Enhancement of the Immune Response to Melanoma via hESC-derived T cells
SEED Siavash Kurdistani Cellular epigenetic diversity as a blueprint for defining the identity and functional potential of human embryonic stem cells
SEED William Lowry Modeling Human Embryonic Development with Human Embryonic Stem Cells 
SEED Michael Teitell Role of Mitochondria in Self-Renewal Versus Differentiation of Human Embryonic Stem Cells
SEED Noriyuki Kasahara Down-Regulation of Alloreactive Immune Responses to hES Cell-Derived Graft Tissues
SEED Hanna Mikkola Improving microenvironments to promote hematopoietic stem cell development from human embryonic stem cells
Comprehensive Guoping Fan Epigenetic gene regulation during the differentiation of human embryonic stem cells: Impact on neural repair
Comprehensive Jerome Zack Human Embryonic Stem Cell Therapeutic Strategies to Target HIV Disease
Shared Labs Owen Witte CIRM Shared Research Laboratories
New Faculty I Siavash Kurdistani Epigenetics in cancer stem cell initiation and clinical outcome prediction
New Faculty I Hanna Mikkola Mechanisms of Hematopoietic stem cell Specification and Self-Renewal
New Faculty I Kathrin Plath In vitro reprogramming of mouse and human somatic cells to an embryonic state
Major Facilities   CIRM Institute
Disease Team Planning Stanley Carmichael Development of a Stem Cell Therapy to Promote Functional Recovery in Stroke
Disease Team Planning Irvin S.Y. Chen Stem Cell Therapy for AIDS- Disease Team Planning
New Cell Lines Amander Clark  Generation of Pluripotent Cell Lines from Human Embryos
New Cell Lines Jerome Zack  Generation of clinical grade human iPS cells
New Faculty II Brigitte Gomperts Stem Cells in Lung Cancer
New Faculty II Antoni Ribas Stem Cells for Immune System Regeneration to Fight Cancer
Tools & Technologies Hsian-Rong Tseng Microfluidic Platform for Screening Chemically Defined Conditions that Facilitate Clonal Expansion of Human Pluripotent Stem Cells
Tools & Technologies Michael Phelps Novel Tools and Technologies for Translational PET Imaging of Cell-based Therapies
University of California, Merced
SEED Michelle Khine Micro Platform for Controlled Cardiac Myocyte Differentiation
New Faculty I Jennifer Manilay Enhancing Survival of Embryonic Stem Cell-Derived Grafts by Induction of Immunological Tolerance  
Major Facilities   CIRM Institute
New Faculty II Kara McCloskey Building Cardiac Tissue from Stem Cells and Natural Matrices
Tools & Technologies Michael Cleary RNA Analysis by Biosynthetic Tagging (RABT): a tool for the identification of cell type-specific RNAs
University of California, Riverside 
SEED Michael Pirrung Stem Cell Survival and Differentiation Through Chemical Genetics 
SEED Frank Sauer Non-coding RNA as tool for the active control of stem cell differentiation
Shared Labs Prudence Talbot A Stem Cell Core Facility for Studying Human Embryonic Stem Cell Differentiation
New Faculty I Douglas Ethell ES-Derived Cells for the Treatment of Alzheimer’s Disease
University of California, San Diego
Training Lawrence Goldstein Interdisciplinary Stem Cell Training Program at UCSD
SEED Shu Chien Combinatorial Platform for Optimizing Microenvironments to Control hESC Fate
SEED Sylvia Evans Specification of Ventricular Myocyte and Pacemaker Lineages Utilizing Human Embryonic Stem Cells
SEED Anirvan Ghosh Generation of forebrain neurons from human embryonic stem cells
SEED Catriona Jamieson Derivation and Characterization of Cancer Stem Cells from Human ES Cells
SEED Cornelis Murre Generation of long-term cultures of human hematopoietic multipotent progenitors from embryonic stem cells
SEED Binhai Zheng Genetic manipulation of human embryonic stem cells and its application in studying CNS development and repair
Comprehensive Lawrence Goldstein Using Human Embryonic Stem Cells to Understand and to Develop New Therapies for Alzheimer's Disease.
Comprehensive Martin Marsala Spinal ischemic paraplegia: modulation by human embryonic stem cell implant.
Comprehensive Yang Xu Mechanisms to maintain the self-renewal and genetic stability of human embryonic stem cells
Shared Labs Karl Willert Enhancing Facilities for Genetic Manipulation and Engineering of Human Embryonic Stem Cells
New Faculty I David Traver Genetic dissection of mesodermal commitment to the hematopoietic fates.
Disease Team Planning Lawrence Goldstein Human Stem Cell Approaches to Alzheimers Disease Therapies
Disease Team Planning Dennis Carson  CIRM Planning Grant in Leukemia
New Cell Lines Steven Dowdy Protein transduction of transcription factors: a non-genetic approach to generate new pluripotent cell lines from human skin.
New Faculty II Catriona Jamieson Derivation and Characterization of Myeloproliferative Disorder Stem Cells from Human ES Cells
New Faculty II Mana Parast Molecular Mechanisms of Trophoblast Stem Cell Specification and Self-Renewal
New Faculty II Shyni Varghese A Novel Microenvironment-Mediated Functional Skeletal Muscle from Human Embryonic Stem Cells and their In Vivo Engraftment
New Faculty II Benjamin Yu Regulation of Adult Stem Cell Proliferation by RAS and Cell-Permeable Proteins
Tools & Technologies Steven Dowdy TAT Cell-Permeable Protein Delivery of siRNAs for Epigenetic Programming of Human Pluripotent and Adult Stem Cells
University of California, San Francisco
Training Susan Fisher Training Program in Stem Cell Research at UCSF
SEED Robert Blelloch MicroRNA Regulation of Human Embryonic Stem Cell Self-Renewal and Differentiation
SEED Linda Giudice Human Embryonic Stem Cell Differentiation to Trophoblast: Basic Biology and Clinical Translation to Improve Human Fertility
SEED Su Guo Identifying small molecules that stimulate the differentiation of hESCs into dopamine-producing neurons
SEED Didier Stainier Endodermal differentiation of human ES cells
SEED Heike Daldrup-Link Labeling of human embryonic stem cells with iron oxide nanoparticles and fluorescent dyes for a non-invasive cell depiction with MR imaging and optical imaging
SEED Miguel Ramalho-Santos Transcriptional Regulation of Human Embryonic Stem Cells
SEED Thea Tlsty Role of the tumor suppressor gene, p16INK4a, in regulating stem cell phenotypes in embryonic stem cells and human epithelial cells.
SEED Valerie Weaver Force, Dimensionality and Stem Cell Fate
SEED Holger Willenbring Induction of pluripotency in fibroblasts by fusion with enucleated human embryonic stem cell syncytia
Comprehensive Harold Bernstein Modeling Myocardial Therapy with Human Embryonic Stem Cells
Comprehensive Susan Fisher Constructing a fate map of the human embryo
Comprehensive Randall Lee Embryonic Stem Cell-Derived Therapies Targeting Cardiac Ischemic Disease
Comprehensive Samuel Pleasure Human stem cell derived oligodendrocytes for treatment of stroke and MS
Comprehensive Arnold Kriegstein Derivation of Inhibitory Nerve Cells from Human Embryonic Stem Cells
Comprehensive Andrew Leavitt Understanding hESC-based Hematopoiesis for Therapeutic Benefit
Shared Labs Linda Giudice Shared Research and Teaching Laboratory: a Non-Federal Human Embryonic Stem Cell Resource
Major Facilities   CIRM Institute
Disease Team Planning Jeffrey Allen Blueston A CIRM Disease Team for the Treatment and Cure of Diabetes
Disease Team Planning Jeffrey Lotz  A CIRM Disease Team for the Repair of Traumatically Injured and Arthritic Cartilage
New Cell Lines Susan Fisher  Optimization of Human Embryonic Stem Cell Derivation Techniques and Production/Distribution of GMP-Grade Lines
New Cell Lines Long-Cheng Li Induction of pluripotent stem cells by small RNA-guided transcriptional activation
New Cell Lines Miguel Ramalho-Santos Somatic cell age and memory in the generation of iPS cells
New Faculty II Robert Blelloch Mechanisms of small RNA regulation in early embryonic development
New Faculty II Ophir Klein Laying the groundwork for building a tooth: analysis of dental epithelial stem cells
New Faculty II Emmanuelle Passegue Mechanisms Underlying the Responses of Normal and Cancer Stem Cells to Environmental and Therapeutic Insults
New Faculty II Jeremy Reiter High throughput modeling of human neurodegenerative diseases in embryonic stem cells
New Faculty II Holger Willenbring Molecular dissection of adult liver regeneration to guide the generation of hepatocytes from pluripotent stem cells
University of California, Santa Barbara
Training Dennis Clegg UCSB Stem Cell Biology Training Program
Shared Labs Dennis Clegg Laboratory for Stem Cell Biology and Engineering
Major Facilities   CIRM Special Programs
Tools & Technologies Dennis Clegg Synthetic Matrices for Stem Cell Growth and Differentiation
University of California, Santa Cruz
Training David Haussler Training Program in Systems Biology of Stem Cells
SEED Bin Chen In vitro differentiation of hESCs into corticospinal motor neurons
SEED David Feldheim Assessing the role of Eph/ephrin signaling in hESC growth and differentiation
Shared Labs Lindsay Hinck Shared Stem Cell Facility
New Faculty I Bin Chen Molecular mechanisms of neural stem cell differentiation in the developing brain
New Faculty I Camilla Forsberg Mechanisms of Stem Cell Fate Decisions
Major Facilities   CIRM Special Programs
Tools & Technologies Joel Kubby AO Wide-Field Microscope
University of Southern California
Training Robert Maxson CIRM Stem Cell Biology Training Grant
SEED David Hinton Therapeutic potential of Retinal Pigment Epithelial cell lines derived from hES cells for retinal degeneration.
SEED Wange Lu Regulation of human neural progenitor cell proliferation by Ryk-mediated Wnt signaling
SEED Qilong Ying Self-renewal of human embryonic stem cells
SEED Peter Laird Screening for Oncogenic Epigenetic Alterations in Human ES Cells
Shared Labs Martin Pera Center for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine: Shared Research Laboratory and Course in Current Protocols in Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research
New Faculty I Mohammad Pashmforoush Transcriptional Regulation of Cardiac Pacemaker Cell Progenitors
New Faculty I Songtao Shi Oral and Craniofacial Reconstruction Using Mesenchymal Stem Cells
Major Facilities   CIRM Institute
Disease Team Planning David Timothy Woodley  Clinical Regenerative Wound Healing With Stem Cells
Disease Team Planning Mark S. Humayun Stem cell based treatment strategy for Age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD)
New Cell Lines Martin Pera  New Technology for the Derivation of Human Pluripotent Stem Cell Lines for Clinical Use
New Faculty II Gage Crump Skeletogenic Neural Crest Cells in Embryonic Development and Adult Regeneration of the Jaw
New Faculty II Qilong Ying Mechanisms Underlying the Diverse Functions of STAT3 in Embryonic Stem Cell Fate Regulation
Tools & Technologies Pin Wang Development of Baculoviral Vectors for Gene Editing of Human Stem Cells
Vala Sciences, Inc.
Tools & Technologies Patrick McDonough Optimization in the Identification, Selection and Induction of Maturation of Subtypes of Cardiomyocytes derived from Human Embryonic Stem Cells
VistaGen Therapeutics
Tools & Technologies Kristina Bonham Development of an hES Cell-Based Assay System for Hepatocyte Differentiation Studies and Predictive Toxicology Drug Screening