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CA stem cell agency boosts spending amidst state budget deficit
Image by Giovanni Cancemi via ShutterstockIt was a $24-million-a-minute meeting for California’s stem cell and gene therapy agency.
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Recipient of $22 million from stem cell agency named to its board
Stem cell researcher and professor Larry Goldstein. (Photo: Screen capture, UCTV).Larry Goldstein, a well-known stem cell researcher at the University of California, San Diego who has received nearly $22 million in awards from the California stem cell agency, today was named to its governing board. It was the first time in the history of the 16-year-old agency that a scientist who has received agency awards has been appointed to the board.
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Changes eyed as stem cell agency seeks $5 billion
Robert Klein at a November 2017 meeting of CIRM directors. (Photo: California Stem Cell Report)The man regarded as the father of the $3 billion California stem cell agency is thinking about changes in the program to help win voter approval of another $5 billion for the research program. They include a stronger requirement to make state-backed, stem cell therapies more affordable and accessible and to provide more cash for creating a greater stem cell work force in the Golden State.