Posts Tagged: voting members

Stem cell: California’s ARS and its multibillion-dollar clout

The Lorry I. Loke Stem Cell Research Building at Stanford University. (Photo: CIRM)

by DAVID JENSEN posted 09.21.2021

California’s taxpayer-financed stem cell agency will give away $98 million later this week, but the agency’s full, 35-member board is not going to have much to do with making decisions about who gets what. That’s because 17 members of the governing board are barred from voting on applications for any of its research awards, which will ultimately total roughly $5 billion over the next decade or so.

NRDC environmentalist named to Coastal Commission

A view of Stinson Beach in Marin County north of San Francisco. (Photo: Sundry Photography)

by SARAH ABDESHAHIAN posted 06.06.2019

Linda Escalante, an environmental activist and a legislative director for the Natural Resources Defense Council, has been named to the California Coastal Commission, the powerful regulatory body with jurisdiction over 1,100 miles of coastline.