CIRM Defends Proposal to Spend $207 Million on More Training; Says Students are 'Engines of Research Progress'

(Editor’s note: The California Stem Cell Report on Monday invited California’s stem cell/gene therapy program if it would like to comment somewhat at length on recent items on this newsletter concerning the expenditure of $207 million. The two items in question are “What to Do with $207 Million? Finance Training or Finance Research to Develop Revolution…