The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, the state’s $3-billion program to foster stem-cell research, has a new president, months after the old one stepped down, according to today’s New York Times. He is Alan O. Trounson, director of the immunology and stem-cell laboratories at Australia’s Monash University and a pioneering researcher in the field himself. The institute, which was approved by voters in 2004 and is the largest source of grant funds for research in the field, was initially hampered by legal challenges by anti-tax and anti-abortion groups. Those lawsuits failed, culminating in the California Supreme Court’s decision last spring not to hear appeals, and the agency is now making grants. —Andrew Mytelka
September 15, 2007
New President Named for California's Huge Stem-Cell Research Program
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