Two researchers at the University of California San Diego received close to $10 million in grants from the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine, the agency announced.

Eric Adler, MD, cardiologist and director of the Strauss-Wilson Center for Cardiomyopathy at UC San Diego Health, received $5.2 million to advance his research in modified stem cells to help treat Danon Disease. Danon is a rare condition, which, when left untreated, results in death as early as age 20.

Karen Christman, a professor in the Shu Chien-Gene Lay Department of Bioengineering at UC San Diego, received $4.6 million to advance her work on biomaterials that can repair damage to muscle after a heart attack. The biomaterials her research team developed can be injected into the bloodstream when a patient is in the catheterization lab undergoing an angioplasty and stent placement.

The goal of CIRMs translational program is to support promising stem cell-based or gene projects that accelerate completion of translational stage activities necessary for advancement to clinical study or broad end use. Those can include therapeutic candidates, diagnostic methods or devices and novel tools that address critical bottlenecks in research.

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