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• Stem Cell PR, Salaries and Mixed Messages

  
  California Stem Cell Report — Authority: 469
  Directors of the California stem cell agency today created a special panel to come up with better and more effective ways to tell the good news about the $3 billion stem cell research effort.That was shortly after it voted to triple the half-time salary of one of its two vice chairmen, Art Torres, to $225,000 for ...
  8 hours ago

• CIRM Identifies Training Grant Recipients

  
  California Stem Cell Report — Authority: 469
  The California stem cell agency has identified the recipients of the $10.8 million in training grants. They include: The Buck Institute, USC, California State University campuses at Fullerton, Northridge and San Bernardino and city colleges in Berkeley and San Francisco. Here is a link to the CIRM news release.
  17 hours ago

• Torres Receives $225,000 Salary as CIRM Vice Chair

  
  California Stem Cell Report — Authority: 469
  Directors of the California stem cell agency this afternoon unanimously approved a $225,000 salary for one of its co-vice chairmen, Art Torres, declaring that his work was “extraordinary” and has helped to improve relations in the nations capital and elsewhere.Torres (at right) joined CIRM in March on a half-time ...
  18 hours ago

• Keirstead Leaves Co-Directorship at UC Irvine Stem Cell Center

  
  California Stem Cell Report — Authority: 469
  A California scientist who has been a media star and super-salesman for human embryonic stem cell research has quietly stepped down as co-director of the stem cell research center at UC Irvine.The announcement of Hans Keirsteads resignation was made Nov. 24 in an internal UCI email by Susan Bryant, vice chancellor for ...
  23 hours ago

• CIRM Wants to Exceed the Legal Cap of 50 on Staff

  
  California Stem Cell Report — Authority: 469
  The California stem cell agency wants to hire more staff, exceeding the 50-person legal cap approved by voters when they passed Prop. 71 in 2004.CIRM President Alan Trounson told CIRM directors this afternoon that he wanted to hire an additional five to 10 persons. He said,“We dont want to get in the situation where ...
  1 day ago

• CIRM Releases More Info on New Communications Move

  
  California Stem Cell Report — Authority: 469
  The California stem cell agency yesterday posted the rationale for a new effort by the CIRM board of directors to deal with public and media communications matters, including some details on what can be expected.The proposed vehicles for the effort are a subcommittee of directors and a task force that would be ...
  1 day ago

• Text of Consumer Watchdog Comments on CIRM Communications Proposal

  
  California Stem Cell Report — Authority: 469
  Here is a statement from John M. Simpson, stem cell project director for Consumer Watchdog of Santa Monica, Ca., related to the proposal to create a subcommittee of CIRM directors to deal with public communication matters. Simpson had a long career as a newspaper editor and has observed and participated in CIRM ...
  1 day ago

• Problems With CIRMs $1 Million, Free HQ Lease

  
  California Stem Cell Report — Authority: 469
  Back in 2005, the California stem cell agency snagged a free, 10-year lease for office space in San Francisco to house its $3 billion effort.But today something is amiss. All the details are not clear, although CIRM is looking at having someone set up a nonprofit to handle the lease, according to our source. We ...
  2 days ago

• Inside Stem Cell Funding: The Cost of Making a Grant

  
  California Stem Cell Report — Authority: 469
  How much does it cost to give away $230 million? Something more than $173,000 or about $12,000 for each of the 14 awards in the recent disease team round from the California stem cell agency.Those are conservative figures based on a document posted Sunday on the CIRM Web site. The report said it could have cost up to ...
  2 days ago

• Info Dribbling Out for CIRM Directors Meeting Wednesday

  
  California Stem Cell Report — Authority: 469
  Directors of the $3 billion California stem cell agency meet in only two days, but only just now are details beginning to emerge about what they plan to decide and why.On Friday, the skimpy directors agenda was virtually barren of background information on the CIRM Web site. Some information for the public, businesses ...
  3 days ago

• Coming Up at CIRM: Grant Triage and More Cash for Training, Translational Research

  
  California Stem Cell Report — Authority: 469
  Directors of the California stem cell agency will meet Dec. 9-10 to consider a pay increase for one of its two vice chairmen and to give away more money for training at state and community colleges.The agenda for the meeting at Stanford University was posted yesterday on the CIRM Web site. As usual, only the ...
  1 week ago

• New Figures Show CIRM Spending $1.2 Million-plus for Grant Management

  
  California Stem Cell Report — Authority: 469
  In its first-ever public accounting of spending for its grant management system, the California stem cell agency this week disclosed it has already laid out more than $1.2 million, with substantially greater expenditures to come in the near future.Overseeing CIRMs largess is no small task. The agency has approved 320 ...
  1 week ago

• CIRM Grant Management Info and Costs

  
  California Stem Cell Report — Authority: 469
  Here is a rundown on key documents related to CIRMs $1.2 million-plus expenditures on its grant management system.Articles from the California Stem Cell ReportCost Overruns and Candor from CIRM – May 29, 2008Vagueness in CIRM budget, June 2009, with some info on the system:“The budget does not appear to contain a ...
  1 week ago

• CIRM and CMF to Host a National Conference on Microinsurance Dec 10/11th

  
  India Development Blog — Authority: 121
  Contacts: Ms. Janani Akhilandeswari, Ms. Deepti KC      Email:  janani.akhilandeswari@ifmr.ac.in ;  deepti.kc@ifmr.ac.in National Microinsurance Conference to be held on December 10-11 th  in Delhi    The UNDP is organizing a National Conference on the Status of Microinsurance in ...
  2 weeks ago

• CIRM Releases Bank Info That It Once Withheld

  
  California Stem Cell Report — Authority: 469
  The California stem cell agency late today released information on a $250,000 contract with Square 1 bank that the agency previously had refused to disclose at the request of Square 1.The move was prompted by inquiries from the California Stem Cell Report about the withholding of the information, which is public ...
  3 weeks ago

• CIRMs Openness Failures Raise Broader Questions

  
  California Stem Cell Report — Authority: 469
  The chairman of the California stem cell agency, Robert Klein, frequently is given to declaring that the $3 billion research effort adheres to the highest standards of openness and transparency.Recently, however, the agency has had difficulty even complying with the basic state public records law and the state ...
  3 weeks ago

• Bringing Stem Cell Cures to the Clinic: UC Davis GMP Facility

  
  CVN Health — Authority: 137
  The FDA requires the use of a Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) facility for taking stem cell-based therapies into clinical trials. This GMP facility is a clean-room laboratory that ensures the therapeutic products will be safe and contamination-free for patients. In Spring 2008, CIRM gave 2 million for the ...
  3 weeks ago

• This Week in Nature (GenomeWeb News)

  
  NanoTechBIZZ.com — Authority: 152
  An article looks at how state stem cell funding in California will pan out as the CIRM is about to start doling out major awards for building renovations at state campuses and newly created institutions like the San Diego Consortium for Regenerative Medicine. (read on…) Related items Where do nanomaterials go ...
  4 weeks ago

• Torres Hails CIRM Innovation, Leadership

  
  California Stem Cell Report — Authority: 469
  The Sacramento Bee last week carried an op-ed piece by Art Torres, co-vice chairman of the $3 billion California stem cell agency, touting the virtues of CIRM, its innovation and the wisdom of the California electorate.Torres, a former state legislator and former head of the state Democratic party, said,"(The) drive ...
  4 weeks ago

• More on the Tale of Three Terminations

  
  California Stem Cell Report — Authority: 469
  Some confusion has arisen in connection with a story in the Scientist magazine concerning our account of the termination of three grants by the California stem cell agency.In an attempt to clarify the situation, we are providing more information on the decision by the California Stem Cell Report to withhold the names ...
  5 weeks ago

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