Funding - USC Stem Cell

Pluripotency (Painting by Amanda Kwieraga)

Current opportunities

Eli and Edythe Broad Innovation Awards for USC- and Caltech-affiliated faculty members pursuing multi-investigator research collaborations related to stem cells — LOI due October 28, 2022; full proposals due on December 16, 2022

2022–2023: Michael Bonaguidi, Jonathan Russin, Charles Liu and Todd Schroeder; Exercise for adult brain regeneration in epilepsy patients
2022–2023: Justin Ichida and Mitchell Guttman; Understanding of RNA mediated toxicity in C9-ALS pathogenesis
2022–2023: Giorgia Quadrato and Michael Elowitz; Synthetic RNA exporters for real-time tracking of human brain organoid development
2020–2021: Michael Bonaguidi, Robert Chow and Jonathan Russin; Adult newborn astroglia as a novel therapeutic target in human epilepsy
2020–2021: Rong Lu and Michael Elowitz; Identifying the spatial organization of hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells in the bone marrow
2020–2021: Andy McMahon and Long Cai; seqFISH profiling of maladaptive injury response in acute to chronic kidney disease transition
2019–2020: Thomas Lozito and Michael Bonaguidi; Why can some lizard species regenerate their tails, while others cannot?
2019–2020: Min Yu and Peggy Farnham; Understanding and targeting estrogen receptor mutation in metastatic cancer stem cells
2018: Qi-Long Ying and Rong Lu; Engineering human granulocyte/macrophage progenitors for cancer immunotherapy
2017: Eun Ji Chung, Larissa Rodriguez and Rong Zhang; Heparin-binding peptide amphiphile hydrogels for urethral regeneration
2016: Justin Ichida, Megan McCain and Dion Dickman; Identifying mechanisms of ALS neuromuscular junction dysfunction using iPSC-derived motor units
2016: Keyue Shen and Rong Lu; Microscale engineering of hematopoietic stem cell niches in a dish

Broad Clinical Research Fellowships for stem cell researchers possessing or training for MD or MD/PhD degrees with the intention of practicing medicine in California — proposals due on April 20, 2023

2020–2021: Johanna Ascher Bartlett (Co-mentors: Juliet Emamaullee, Rohit Kohli); Predictive biomarkers of progression of acute liver failure in children
2020–2021: Kevin Collon (Co-mentors: Jay R. Lieberman, Denis Evseenko); Testing safety of genetically manipulated stem cells to treat critical sized bone defects
2020–2021: Allen Zhong (Co-mentors: Kasper Wang, Kinji Asahina); Prom1-mediated repair and biliary atresia
2019–2020: Kemp Anderson (Co-mentors: Mark Frey, Christopher Gayer); The role of nuclear receptor FXE in impaired intestinal barrier function in acute injury and inflammation
2019–2020: Caitlin O’Neill (Co-mentors: Casey O’Connell, Rong Lu); Tet methylcyosine dioxygenase 2 (TET2) mutation and its role in cardiovascular disease in patients with clonal hematopoiesis
2019–2020: Brittany Rocque (Co-mentors: Juliet Emamaullee, Shahab Asgharzadeh); Immunologic phenotypes of rejection in clinical liver transplantation
2018–2019: Abigail Zamora (Mentor: Eugene S. Kim); Targeting cancer stem cells to treat neuroblastoma
2018–2019: H. Paco Kang (Mentor: Jay R. Lieberman); Using genetically manipulated stem cells to treat critical sized bone defects
2017–2018: Wan Jiao (Co-mentors: Young Kwon Hong, Alex Wong); Exploring a stem cell-based treatment for lymphedema
2017–2018: Roshan Rajani (Mentor: Nuria M. Pastor-Soler); Effects of acid-base status and metabolic status on kidney regeneration in chronic kidney disease
2017–2018: Anthony Squillaro (Mentor: Tracy C. Grikscheit); Optimizing tissue-engineered liver (TELi)
2016–2017: R. Kiran Alluri (Mentor: Jay R. Lieberman); Using genetically manipulated stem cells to treat critical sized bone defects
2016–2017: Gene K. Lee (Co-mentors: Young Kwon Hong, Alex Wong); Exploring a stem cell-based treatment for lymphedema
2016–2017: Christopher Schlieve (Mentor: Tracy C. Grikscheit); Creating stem cell-derived intestines for patients with short bowel syndrome (SBS)
2015–2016: Andre Luis de Castro Abreu (Co-mentors: Inderbir Gill, Janos Peti-Peterdi); Targeting and therapeutically developing a new mechanism of endogenous nephron repair
2015–2016: Victoria Forte (Co-mentors: Julie Lang, Min Yu); Evaluating if circulating cancer cells are present in tumor dormancy candidates
2015–2016: Rodrigo Martínez Monedero (Mentor: Neil Segil); Molecular analysis of mature supporting cells as targets for sensory hair cell regeneration: Acquisition and epigenetic analysis
2015–2016: Kathy Schall (Mentor: Tracy C. Grikscheit); Investigating the role of the Wnt signaling pathway on intestinal adaptation with a novel short bowel syndrome model in zebrafish

CIRM Training Fellowships in Stem Cell Biology and Tissue Regeneration for PhD students, postdocs, and clinical trainees — application for clinical trainee due on April 18, 2023

The USC Stem Cell Postdoctoral Fellows Program to provide postdoctoral scholars with a structured mentoring plan to pursue cross-cutting stem cell research in preparation for scientific careers in academia and industry — applications due on November 15, 2022

Choi Family Postdoctoral Fellowships to increase the diversity of our outstanding community of postdoctoral trainees pursuing stem cell research

2019–2020: Marcella Birtele (Quadrato Lab)
2018–2019: Ebony Flowers (Yu Lab)
2017–2018: D’Juan Farmer (Crump Lab)

Audrey E. Streedain Postdoctoral Travel Awards for postdoctoral trainees in the Department of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine

Broad Collaborative Challenge Grants for Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Fellows pursuing interdisciplinary research collaborations related to stem cells — proposals due on May 15, 2023

2022–2023: Peyman Nouri and Zachary Fouladi; MYCN control of metabolomic changes during cone precursor maturation
2022–2023: Tuo Shi (Crump and Segil labs) and Leah Kim (Gnedeva Lab); Cross-species comparisons of the epigenetic mechanisms underlying hair cell regeneration in the inner ear
2022–2023: Fokion Glykofrydis (Morsut Lab), James Yu (Young Kwon Hong Lab) and Connor Fausto (Lindström Lab); Vascularizing human kidney organoids via synthetic biology-augmented approaches

T32 Training Fellowships in Developmental Biology, Stem Cells, and Regeneration for PhD students — applications due on July 12, 2022

Neil Segil Travel Scholarships for undergraduate students actively engaged in research within USC’s Department of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine — applications due on May 15, 2023

Past opportunities

Audrey E. Streedain Regenerative Medicine Initiative Awards for USC-affiliated faculty members pursuing multi-investigator research collaborations related to stem cells

2016–2018: Paula Cannon and Justin Ichida; AAV gene-targeting of the C9ORF72 repeat expansion to rescue neurons in vivo: A novel therapeutic strategy for ALS and FTD
2016–2018: Ram Kumar Subramanyan and Jian Xu; The role of the PRMT1-p53 axis in mediating cardiac fibroblast fate transition in the injured heart

The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation’s Fund for Innovative Stem Cell Research

2017: Pietro Cippa, Kun Zhang and Andy McMahon; Identifying mechanisms of renal repair by NUC-seq profiling of reparative nephron cell types
2017: Justin Ichida and Scott E. Fraser; Scalable system for endogenous protein labeling by CRISPR-Cas in human iPSCs

Regenerative Medicine Initiative (RMI) Awards for USC-affiliated faculty members pursuing multi-investigator research collaborations related to stem cells

2013–2014: Gregor Adams and Fatih Uckun; Impact of CD22ΔE12 genetic defect on fate of lymphoid-biased stem cells in the hematopoietic stem cell niche
2013–2014: Gage Crump, Jay Lieberman and Francesca Mariani; Healing of critical sized bone defects with periosteal dual fate skeletal progenitors
2013–2014: Justin Ichida, Takahiro Ohyama and Neil Segil; Differentiation of inner ear sensory neurons and hair cells through direct reprogramming

Broad Fellowships for exceptional senior postdoctoral researchers at the transition points to starting their own stem cell laboratories

2018–2019: Oihana Iriondo (Yu Lab); Elucidating tumor progression
2017–2018: Ksenia Gnedeva (Segil Lab); Role of Hippo-Yap signaling in organ of Corti development and regeneration
2017–2018: Michaela Patterson (Sucov Lab); Exploiting natural variation to understand mechanisms of adult mammalian heart regeneration
2016–2017: Joanna Smeeton (Crump Lab); Endogenous stem cells in cartilage and ligament regeneration
2015–2016: Gabriel R. Linares (Ichida Lab); The role of C9ORF72 protein function in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
2014–2015: Lori O’Brien (McMahon Lab); Defining the role of the epigenetic regulator Phf19 in nephron progenitor maintenance

Hearst Fellowships for exceptional junior postdoctoral fellows pursuing stem cell research

2017–2018: Peter Fabian (Gage Crump Lab); Single-cell analysis of skeletal and connective tissue progenitors in the zebrafish face
2016–2017: Adnan Chowdhury (Rong Lu Lab); Deciphering the heterogeneous response of hematopoietic stem cells during infection by integrating single cell transcriptome analysis and clonal tracking
2015–2016: Albert Kim (McMahon Lab); Characterization of in vivo and in vitro nephrogenesis

Audrey E. Streedain Postdoctoral Excellence Awards for postdoctoral trainees pursuing stem cell research

2018: Lindsey Barske (Crump Lab)
2018: Michaela Patterson (Sucov Lab)

Stem Cell Challenge Grants for graduate students and postdoctoral scholars pursuing interdisciplinary research collaborations related to stem cells

2020: Jiawen Chen (Dickman Lab), Yichen Li (Ichida Lab), and Jeffrey Santoso (McCain Lab); Engineering a 3D model towards investigating neuromuscular junction degeneration in ALS
2020: Katelyn Millette (Georgia Lab) and Anna Kamitakahara (Levitt Lab); Modeling neural development of gut-brain circuits using human iPSCs
2020: Joycelyn Yip (McCain Lab) and Jean-Paul Urenda (Quadrato Lab); A next generation human multi-organoids-based platform to model neurodevelopmental disorders following physiological stimulation
2020: Youngjoo Lee (Evseenko Lab), Arijita Sarkar (Evseenko Lab) and Mathi Thiruppathy (Crump Lab); Exploring the role of SERPINF1 in chondrocytes and cartilage development in human and zebrafish
2020: John Nguyen (Segil Lab) and Zipeng Zeng (Li Lab); Investigating the role of de novo heterochromatin in cochlear supporting cell and ureteric bud progenitor cell maturation

Doerr Stem Cell Challenge Grants for graduate students and postdoctoral scholars pursuing interdisciplinary research collaborations related to stem cells

2016–2017: Kate Galloway (Ichida Lab) and Haoze (Vincent) Yu (Segil Lab); Building a motor neuron enhancer map using ATM-ChIPseq
2015–2016: Ang Li (Chuong Lab) and Yuwei Li (Fraser Lab); Novel imaging studies of bioelectric cues regulating collective behavior of skin progenitor cells
2015–2016: Lindsey Mork (Crump Lab) and Michaela Patterson (Sucov Lab); Utilizing the zebrafish to test the function of a novel GWAS-identified candidate gene in heart regeneration