The October ICOC Board Meeting begins this morning in Los Angeles, CA. The complete agenda can be found here, including a special Spotlight on Disease focusing on Retinitis Pigmentosa. For those not able to attend, you are welcome to dial in! Dial in Information WebEx Link Go to https://cirm.webex.com/mw0307l/mywebex/default.do?nomenu=true&siteurl=cirm&service=6&rnd=0.1631693973521846&main_url=https%3A%2F%2Fcirm.webex.com%2Fec0606l%2Feventcenter%2Fevent%2FeventAction.do%3FtheAction%3Dlandingfrommail%26confViewID%3D1768820746%26%26EMK%3D4832534b00000001b818c6aba1676c71bd89b75494e1eaedf534c1f22fb97ac7628f523b819f42bd%26email%3Dacheung%2540cirm.ca.gov%26encryptTicket%3Dca2ac06488c1a8983c154b61e44cae56%26%26siteurl%3Dcirm Click "Join Now" Dial in: (877) … Continue reading October ICOC Board Meeting to Begin Soon
Events
Meeting designed to bring together investors and researchers seemed to hit pay dirt this year
When I helped plan the first Partnering Forum at the Stem Cell Meeting on the Mesa four years ago, I must admit it felt a bit early for the stated goal of the meeting, which was to bring together academic research teams and early stage biotech companies with big pharmaceutical companies and other investors who … Continue reading Meeting designed to bring together investors and researchers seemed to hit pay dirt this year
Policy Matters: Stem Cells and the Public Interest
Guest Author Geoff Lomax is CIRM’s Senior Officer for Medical and Ethical Standards. In the spirit of Stem Cell Awareness Day, Cell Stem Cell has compiled a “Public Interest” collection of articles covering ethical, legal, and social implications of stem cell research and made it freely available. The collection may be found here. The collection … Continue reading Policy Matters: Stem Cells and the Public Interest
Seventh annual Stem Cell Awareness Day, Oct. 8, will share some of the reasons behind the hope
When we organized the first Stem Cell Awareness Day in 2008 it was a small affair with events in Australia, Canada and a couple venues in California. It has quickly grown to become a sufficiently grass roots event worldwide that we can’t capture all the activities. But we feature 10 events in the US and … Continue reading Seventh annual Stem Cell Awareness Day, Oct. 8, will share some of the reasons behind the hope
See You Next Week: 2014 Stem Cell Meeting on the Mesa
Next week marks the fourth annual Stem Cell Meeting on the Mesa (SCMOM) Partnering Forum in La Jolla, California and CIRM , one of the main organizers, hopes to see you there. SCMOM is the first and only meeting organized specifically for the regenerative medicine and cell therapy sectors. The meeting’s unique Partnering Forum brings … Continue reading See You Next Week: 2014 Stem Cell Meeting on the Mesa
New Videos: Living with Crohn’s Disease and Working Towards a Stem Cell Therapy
Note: the two videos below are also available on our website She doesn’t want your sympathy. She doesn’t want your admiration. She just wants your understanding. Rachel Bonner, a sixteen-year-old high school student and founder of the Hope for Crohn’s charity, spoke to the CIRM governing Board on September 10th about what it’s like living … Continue reading New Videos: Living with Crohn’s Disease and Working Towards a Stem Cell Therapy
CIRM 2.0: How to Build a Better Stem Cell Agency and Speed up Treatments to Patients
Change is never easy. We all get used to doing things in a certain way and it can sometimes be difficult to realize that the way we have chosen, while it may have worked well at one time is perhaps not the best way to achieve our goals at this time. Well, change is coming … Continue reading CIRM 2.0: How to Build a Better Stem Cell Agency and Speed up Treatments to Patients
September ICOC Boarding Meeting Begins Soon
The September ICOC Boarding Meeting begins this morning in Berkeley, CA. The complete agenda can be found here, including a special Spotlight on Disease focusing on Inflammatory Bowel Disease. For those not able to attend, feel free to dial in: Dial in Infomation: United States: (800) 230-1093 Access Code: 334835 WEB MEETING ACCESS INFORMATION: ------------------------------- … Continue reading September ICOC Boarding Meeting Begins Soon
CIRM at Business of Personalized Medicine Summit
Exciting new technologies such as regenerative medicine, tissue engineering and gene therapy are already at the forefront of a new era of medicine. And today, CIRM’s own Business Development Officer, Neil Littman, moderated a panel titled The Impact of Next Generation Personalized Medicine Technologies: How Disruptive Tech Continues to Advance the Industry, at the annual … Continue reading CIRM at Business of Personalized Medicine Summit
CIRM Creativity Student Cindy Nguyen Goes “Beyond the Classroom”
This summer we’re sponsoring high school interns in stem cell labs throughout California as part of our annual Creativity Program. We asked those students to share their experiences through blog posts and videos. Today in our final installment, we hear from Cindy Nguyen, who has been busy at Stanford University’s Beckman Center for Molecular and … Continue reading CIRM Creativity Student Cindy Nguyen Goes “Beyond the Classroom”
The Stem Cellar 