Jonathan Thomas, PhD, JD, is President and CEO of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM). Thomas was previously the Chair of the CIRM governing Board from June 2011 to March 2023.

The simple term “stem cell” actually refers to many different types of cells. The tissue-specific stem cells, or adult stem cells, replenish tissues throughout our lives. Embryonic stem cells exist ...

At meetings of the CIRM governing board, patients, clinicians and researchers speak about the hope of stem cell research for a particular disease area. These are their stories.

The last thing Maria Torres expected was to be diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. She exercised, ate well and kept her weight under control. There had to be some mistake. Maria asked her doctor to repeat ...

Anne-Marrie Duliege, MD, is a Senior Executive and Chief Medical Officer with 30 years of experience guiding biopharmaceutical companies through development and commercial stages. Dr. Duliege is ...

A major challenge in developing stem cell-based cures for disease is maturing those cells into adult cell types that can be used for transplantation or to study human disease. Dr. Mark Mercola has a ...

Earl J. Beadle Productions, Inc. Stem cells have the potential to treat a wide range of diseases, but developing those cures is a process that has many hurdles. Dr. Hans Keirstead has a CIRM grant to ...

Bridges Dr. Carin Zimmerman Building Career Pathways into Stem Cell Research and Therapy Development $2,664,812 Bridges Dr. Carin Zimmerman Stem Cell Training Enhancement Program with a focus on ...

Embryonic stem cells have the potential to help treat 70 or more diseases, but developing those new therapies will take time. Alan Lewis is the former president and CEO of Novocell (now ViaCyte), a La ...

Since the last progress report we have confirmed and extrapolated our studies and, as proposed last year, we have identified specific proteins that are secreted by human embryonic stem cells and that ...

We proposed to develop novel, well-defined, synthetic extracellular matrices that support survival and proliferation of human embryonic stem cells. This is an important, unmet need in the field and ...

Visit our Through Their Lens page for photos and more videos from students and grantees. Hera Nalbandian is a Reseda High School student who is doing a stem cell research internship this summer in the ...