State Stem Cell Agency Approves $26 Million to Remove Obstacles to Gene and Cell Therapy Treatments

University of California dominates list of winners of research awards

Gay Crooks of UCLA, whose research seeks to develop universal, off-the-shelf, therapeutic T-cells from induced pluripotent stem cells. UCLA photo

Seventeen California scientists won a total of $26 million this week to devise ways to overcome knowledge gaps and bottlenecks that are slowing the development of revolutionary stem cell and gene therapies.

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