The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine's governing board awarded a total of $28 million to support 16 Basic Biology II Awards that will seek answers to fundamental questions about stem cell biology and one Leadership Award. The funding, which builds on 12 similar biology awards given last year, is intended to establish a foundation for future clinical advances.
Overall, CIRM's governing board has awarded more than $1 billion in stem cell grants, with more than half of the total going to the University of California or UC-affiliated institutions.
CIRM Basic Biology II Awards:
UC Davis: $885,600 (Eric Kurzrock)
UC Irvine: $2.6 million (Aileen Anderson, Marian Waterman)
UCLA: $4 million (Benhur Lee, Douglas Black, Yong Kim)
UC San Diego: $2.7 million (Kun-Liang Guan, Dong-Er Zhang)
UC San Francisco: $1.4 million (John Rubenstein)
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CIRM release