The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) was created in 2004, with a mission to deliver transformative regenerative medicine treatments in an equitable manner to a diverse California and world. It is committed to supporting translational research, education and training, and infrastructure with the goal of accelerating treatments to patients with unmet medical needs.

Some therapies that may come out of CIRM-funded research projects involve transplanting the cells themselves. Others will be drugs that were discovered through modeling diseases in a petri dish. Still others will be diagnostics that allow doctors to diagnose and treat diseases more effectively—or through technologies that open up whole new fields of research. CIRM funding promotes all areas of stem cell research that show promise to accelerating treatments to patients in need.