CIRM's Senior Officer to the Standards Working Group, Geoff Lomax, is blogging this week from Calgary where his attending the Canadian Stem Cell Network's meeting "Stem Cell Controversies".   The Stem Cell Network meeting Understanding Stem Cell Controversies is refreshing for its focus on clinical trials and efforts to get basic stem cell research to patients. … Continue reading Notes from Calgary: Stem cell hype and medical tourism

CIRM's Senior Officer to the Standards Working Group, Geoff Lomax, will be blogging this week from Calgary where his attending the Canadian Stem Cell Network's meeting "Stem Cell Controversies".  Today kicks off the Canadian Stem Cell Network’s intensive three-day course titled Understanding Stem Cell Controversies. The focus is on emerging ethical and policy issues as … Continue reading Understanding Stem Cell Controversies — Texas Hold’em Anyone?

At the 18th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) in Boston, two members of CIRM’s HIV/AIDS Disease Team led by John Zaia at City of Hope presented new research showing the team’s progress toward the clinic.The team’s overall goal is to use technology developed by Sangamo Biosciences to modify the blood-forming stem cells of … Continue reading Guest blogger Jeff Sheehy – CIRM Grantees Show Progress Towards a “Cure for HIV” in Boston