CIRM's 'Adventure with a Deadline:' How Billions will be Spent Pursuing Stem Cell and Gene Therapies

California refocusing spending priorities, dollars likely to go in different directions

CIRM’s timetable for devising its new framework for funding priorities. SAF stands for Strategic Allocation Framework. ICOC is the abbreviation for the CIRM board’s name.

For patients, researchers and policymakers, the next three days mark the beginning of a key, new “adventure” in the gene and stem cell therapy world of the $12 billion California Instit…