California's Stem Cell Agency Seeking High-Level Consultant to Help Create Better Data Sharing Network

CIRM says current data banks are a patchwork, lacking standardization and impeding development of therapies

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California’s $12 billion stem cell agency is looking for a consultant to help build a key element of its five-year strategic plan -- specifically, the creation of a greater, collaborative data-sharing network among the hundreds of scientists that it backs with millions of dollars. 

The agency says the existing “patchwork” o…