Sitemap - 2007 - The California Stem Cell Report
Business Joins CIRM Competition; Stanford Moves Craftily
CIRM Withholds Routine Information on Interest in Disease Team Grants
Businesses Give Mixed Response to CIRM Overtures
Anointment and The 92 Percent Routine at CIRM
FDA Calls April Meeting for Stem Cell Testing Advice
Major Staff Turnover at California Stem Cell Institute
CIRM Hires Communications Chief from Harvard
Sham Arguments Harm CIRM's Credibility
Gritty Stuff in Trounson Story
A Lesson for CIRM From Dr. Kessler
Fresh Link to More on Lab Grants
Kessler Fired at UCSF, No Longer Can Serve at CIRM
Names Disclosed of 12 Applicants for $260 Million in Lab Grants
Murphy on CIRM: The Long Trek and Growing Pains
Wired.com, CIRM Meetings and Coverage
'Great to be in California' Says Recipient of $2.2 Million Stem Cell Grant
CIRM Directors Mull Conflict Flap
Names of Faculty Award Recipients
CIRM Hands Out $54 Million to Researchers
Reed Recuses Himself from CIRM
Conflict Flap Dogs California Stem Cell Directors
Lawmakers: CIRM Proposal for Affordable Access Not Good Enough
Biotech Loan Program Slated for March Approval
Victims and Scapegoats: Focusing on the Facts
The Cost of Tin Ears and Missed Opportunities
CIRM Deflecting Away From Directors on Conflict Problems
CIRM Rejects Grant Applications in Wake of Director Conflicts
Ins and Outs of CIRM's Proposed Biotech Bank
Conflict Problems Snag $85 Million CIRM Grant Program
California To Give $85 Million to 25 Researchers
Kickoff Session on California's Biotech Loan Program
First Chance for Business to Snag California Stem Cell Dollars
California's Widening Stem Cell Net
SC3: The New California Stem Cell Collaboration
CIRM Media Coverage: Conflicts to Anachronisms
Top California Official Orders Audit of State Stem Cell Agency
Judge Dismisses Cha Libel Suit Against Flamm
Time to Shine More Light on CIRM
Conflicts and Klein: Fallout From Bad Advice
Reed vs. Klein: "The Bigger Problem"
Sacramento Bee: Klein Should Step Down
Two CIRM Directors Upset by Improper Action by Colleague; Watchdog Calls for Klein Resignation
Burnham's John Reed, Influence and a CIRM Grant Denial
Text of CIRM Response on Reed Letter
Financial Scrutiny of CIRM Coming Up Next Week
Australian Stem Cell Inquiry Linked to Trounson Concluded
Looking Behind the WARF Stem Cell Patent Challenge
Scientific Criticism and Libel Update
Celebrity Leeza Gibbons Named as CIRM Director
Excessive Haste on $300,000 Stem Cell PR Contract
CIRM: An Evaluation at Age Three
Text of Statement from Robert Klein
Proposed Lab Grant Review Procedures Posted
CIRM Rules for Grants to Businesses
The Big Oil-Stem Cell Interface
More Details Due Friday on Lab Grant Meeting
How to Wrestle with Requests for $227 Million: CIRM Agenda Vague
The Shifting Sands of Stem Cell Support
CIRM Offers $300,000 PR Contract
Science, Libel and the Law: A California Case
WARF Stem Cell Patents: The Latest Chapter
High Priests vs. Open Access to Research
Communications Void at California Stem Cell Agency
Update on Aussie Stem Cell Research Probe
CIRM Director Nova Scores with IPO
Trounson and Sale of Melbourne IVF
StemLifeLine: No to Third Party, Spare Embryo Decisions
No Interstate Stem Cell Cookbook
ACT and Geron Talk About Clinical Trials
Stem Cell Freeze Flap: Ethics, UC San Francisco, Stanford Involved
San Diego Wildfires and the Biotech Business
Trounson Hit with Malicious Attack
Pluripotent Possibilities at Interstate Conference on Stem Cell Research
No Support From CIRM Group on Public Disclosure on Lab Grants
Text of Statement by CSCR on Open Review of Lab Grants
Text of FTCR Statement on Open Review of Lab Grants
CIRM Praised on California Political Blog
New CIRM Director No Intellectual Shrinking Violet
Position Change: CIRM Now Permitting Public Comment at $85 Million Hearing
Comment on Ban on Public at $85 Million CIRM Meeting
Interstate Stem Cell Issues Coming Up in Public Session Next Week
Agenda for Public Meeting on Interstate Stem Cell Issues
Public Barred from Any Comment at $85 Million CIRM Meeting
Aussie Stem Cell Probe Highlights Need for Maximum Openness at CIRM
Does the Trounson Story Have Legs?
Trounson Reports Not Appearing in American Mainstream Media
Buried News: William Bowes, UCSB and Jamie Thomson
Australian News Story Erring on Details
Trounson Stem Cell Project Under Investigation in Australia
Nobel Prize, Stem Cells and WARF
Work to Begin on Stem Cell Training Grant Concepts
Sewell Praises Bee, Criticizes Hall
CIRM Says No to Auditor's Conflicts Concerns
$122 Million Disease Team Effort, $25 Million for New Pluripotent Lines
CIRM Bonds: 3.55 Percent vs. 5.168 Percent Interest
Klein, Trounson, Hall: The Bee Looks Briefly at Leadership
Stem Cell Fanciers Snap up More Than $100 Million in Bonds
Stem Cell Bond Offering Attracts Media Attention
Biotech Bank Plan Moves Ahead at CIRM
CHA Grant Withdrawn, Burnham Grant Denied
$31 Million Stem Cell Training Proposal Defended
Time to Tap Technology for Outreach
Looking For Ways to Avoid the Stem Cell Egg Problem
Lockyer Beats Stem Cell Bond Drum
The Cost of 'Lubricants' for Stem Cell Financing
More Openness Emerging at CIRM?
Stem Cell Snippets: Hanky-Panky to Jobs for Those Love Long Hours
Trounson Expands on His International Perspective
Attention Stem 'Cellists:' Buy Your Bonds Now
Ensuring a Stem Cell Future: CIRM's Proposed Biotech Loan Program
CIRM October Meeting: Disease Teams, Biotech Loan Program and New Stem Cell Lines
More on Alan 'Big Fish' Trounson: Spin Doctors 'Wrong'
Market Conditions Delay Sale of Stem Cell Bonds
Trounson, Air Bridges and Hot Water
Wired Story on Trounson; Sheehy Comments
Reaction to Trounson: CIRM Management Issues to His Love of Learning
FTCR on Trounson: 'Highest Regard'
Trounson Resume and Management Experience
Trounson's Business Activities
Alan Trounson Named President of CIRM
CIRM CEO Search: The Burden of Being in the Vanguard
$122 Million Disease Team Proposal
New Drugs, Old Drugs, Openness and Cost Implications
Stem Cell Media Coverage to Crow About
$20 Million Stem Cell Pay Day for UCLA
California Stem Cell Companies Not Too Displeased with CIRM Rules
Stem Cell Snippets: Drooping Support, Farmland, Goldstein's Views and CIRM Scholar
Stem Cell Bonds, Royalties and Campaign Promises
UCLA to Receive Multimillion Dollar Stem Cell Gift
Whoopee! CIRM To Dive Into The Dough
Christmas Coming Early for 25 California Scientists
Director Says CIRM "More Effective" Than Other State Agencies
Fresh Bustling in CIRM Presidential Search
ISSCR Backs Controversial California Effort
New CIRM Director, Salk, UC San Diego, Coziness and Much More
CIRM Chair Klein Defends Eight-Month-Old CEO Search
Chris Scott: Rocky Road Ahead for CIRM
Grueling Work, CIRM and Burger King
CIRM Challenges Report on Chiu
Stem Cell Snippets: McGee, Lansing, Prinz
More Analysis on the Chiu Resignation
CIRM Loses its No. 1 Scientist
Cash is Coming: Time for Stem Cell Firms To Show Up
Wisconsin and California: Dueling Views on Stem Cell IP
CSUS Responds on $31 Million Training Plan
Leveraging the Media, Money and Change
More Adding Up on Private Funding for Stem Cell Research
NAS Opens Session of Public Officials on Stem Cell Cooperation
Names of Stem Cell Researchers Moving to California Since Prop. 71
The "Show-Me" State and $985 Million in Stem Cell Funding
Bee Editorializes on CIRM Presidential Search
CSUS' $31 Million Training Proposal Faces More Scrutiny
FTCR: Secrecy Supports Anti-Science Crowd
CIRM Says No to Public Access on Faculty Grants
CIRM Presidential Search: Looking for the Right Phenotype
Fifty-nine Scientists Reach for CIRM's Golden Ring
Kessler Looking for More Than CIRM, UCSF?
CIRM Overseers to Consider More Public Disclosure on Lab Grants
Sharpen the Pencils, Line Up the Finest Grant Writers!
Murphy Talks About His New Role
More On Richard Murphy and His Role at CIRM
Former Salk CEO Named as Interim CIRM President
CSUS Cash Wranglers Make Largest Pitch to CIRM
Interim CIRM President in The Works?
FTCR: Open Up $227 Million Lab Grant Program
$5 Million Boost for Major Lab Building Proposal?
Kerfuffle Erupts Involving Geron, Biopolitical Times
California State Colleges Seek $31 Million From CIRM
Peril and the CIRM Presidential Search
Time for More Openness in $220 Million Grant Program
A Wired Look at CIRM Presidential Search
Corn, Ham and the Women of CIRM
A $100 Million Collaborative Effort
CIRM Director Nova Taking Her Firm Public
CIRM, Entropy and the Presidential Search
CIRM Directors to Address Business IP and Lab Grants
Stem Cell Lab Building Plan Heads for Approval Next Week
Golden Eggs on The Stem Cell Blog
ACT, NIH and No Go Federal Funding
Stanford's Chris Scott and His New Stem Cell Blog
Weekend Reading: Guide to a $220 Million Giveaway
CIRM Group Gives Nod to Japanese Cell Lines
Thomson Report Carried by Nature, Chronicle of Higher Education
CIRM Grants: Checks Not in the Mail, Squeaky Clean Review Underway
CIRM Presidential Search: No Announcement Yet
Lab Grant Evaluation Standards
Upcoming This Week: Japanese Stem Cell Lines, Lab Grants and Presidential Search
Nature Magazine Trumpets California 'Upstart'
Klein Rebuffed in Lobbying Effort for New Stem Cell Nonprofit
Klein, Chimeras and the Yolo Land Deal
Proposed Criteria for Major CIRM Lab Grants
Thomson's New Lab Under Construction In Santa Barbara
Scientists and Their PR Responsibilities
CIRM Panel Sets Lab Criteria, Nitty Gritty Still Pending
The Bee Calls for Klein Resignation If He Continues to Lobby on Land Deal
Sherry Lansing Resigns from Lab Grant Group; Conflicts of Interest Cited
More On the Presidential Search, Plus Lab Grants and ICOC Vacancies
CIRM Directors Still Looking for New President
Stem Cell Snippets: Pachter, Kessler and Google
Poultry and CIRM's Oversight Committee
New Lab Proposal Info Now Available
Five-hour Research Lab Meeting: A Mockery?
Conflicts at CIRM: The 90 Percent Test
UC Davis Tightens Rules on Industry Influence
Yolo Stem Cell Proposal Attracts More Attention
News Coverage of Monday's WARF Stem Cell Matters
No Aussie Location for July 12 Presidential Meeting
CIRM Takes Another Whack at Hiring President
Melton, Cowan and Trounson Beef Up WARF Challenge
Stem Cell Snippets: Burnham's Reed, Politics, Roth and the Non-meeting Meeting
Klein Rep Says No Financial Ties in Land-Stem Cell Proposal
Text on Development Plan Involving Klein
CIRM Faculty Awards Deadline in August
Klein and His Role on Proposed Stem Cell Research Center
Amy Daly Statement on Bridge to Cures
Klein Involved in Major Land Deal-Stem Cell Research Center Proposal
Kuehl on CIRM Bill: Breathing Room, Yes -- Abandonment, No
CIRM Legislation: A Political Muscle Story or Casualty of a Full Plate or Both?
CIRM Legislation Finished for 2007
No Action Today on New CIRM President
Presidential Search Committee Anticipates No Public Action Tonight
Internet Radio Program: Stem Cells After Bush
CIRM Plan: $85 Million Split Among 25 Stem Cell Researchers
A Retrospective on CIRM: The View from Wyoming
If It Can't Stand the Light of Day...
TV Coverage on California Stem Cell Research
A Dissection: CIRM's Presidential Meeting Next Week
Stem Cell Research State by State
The Bush Veto: 'Strong Words From the Government of California'
Down Under With The Niche and Robert Klein
San Diego Stem Cell Consortium Unveils Ambitious Plans
Reaching Down Under: A Chance to Weigh In on California Stem Cell Matters
Ticklish Topic: The $400,000-plus Salary at CIRM
CIRM Has a New Look on the Internet
New CIRM President in Two Weeks?
Short Update on ESC Research Nationally
Lawyer Critical of California Stem Cell Report
The National Academy of Sciences: Feeding the Anti-Science Movement
Public Matters, Public Money Topic of "Secret" Agenda
Transcript Now Available on SB771
National Academy of Sciences Fails Public Responsibility Test on State Stem Cell Issues
Looming Compromise on CIRM Legislation?
A Commercial Perspective on Resetting Stem Cell Clocks
Fertility and Sterility Editor Retracts Comments About Cha
Turning Back Time on Mice Stem Cells: Implications for California
TV Stem Cell Coverage, Reijo Pera and Stanford
CIRM Legislation Easily Clears the California Senate
CIRM Lab Grants: News Coverage Around California and China
CIRM Gives Away $50 Million for Stem Cell Labs
Gaucho Scientists Likely to Win Stem Cell Grant
CIRM Tonight: Juggling $48 Million in Lab Grants
CIRM's Research Standards -- A Look at Their Principles and Reasoning
The $220 Million Lab Giveaway and Its Rules
CIRM Legislation Now on Senate Floor
The Canadian-California Stem Cell Treaty
The CIRM Budget and Burger King
CIRM Legislation: A Cash Cow or Bum Steer?
$30 Million California-Canadian Stem Cell Effort
More Fallout from CIRM's Facilities Meeting
Coverage on the Cha Retraction
Duplicate Publication: Journal Retracts Cha Article
CIRM Legislation Advances in State Senate
Kuehl Legislation Up for Hearing This Afternoon
The $222 Million Question and CIRM's Direction
CIRM's Facilities Meeting: 'Not So Terrible'
Fresh Comments and Ariff Bongso
CIRM Facilities Rancor: Delay and Dollars
CIRM Presidential Search: Semi-finalists in June
The $200 Million Edifice Issue
Hall To Leave CIRM at End of This Month
WARF News and a California, Scientific Perspective
Stem Cell Snippets: J&J, Novocell, Geron and Cha
Kuehl's CIRM Bill Advances on 9-0 Vote
CIRM Firm Against Kuehl Legislation
Stem Cell Snippets: Labs, Cha and Pomeroy
Live Internet Broadcast of CIRM IP Legislation
Minimal Stem Cell Coverage in Sacramento
Sacramento Bee: Curb Klein's 'Political Adventures'
Sacramento's Stem Cell Topic of The Week: Sharing the Swag
Fresh Comments, No. 1, April 9, 2007
Editor's Advisory on Recent Cha Items
Harvard's Kim Responds on the Cha Matter
Text of CHA Response to a Variety of Issues
Cha Letter to Los Angeles Times
CHA RMI Statement on CIRM Grant
British Medical Journal Discloses More Details in Cha Matter
Time to Give Fax Machines a Decent Burial
Criticism: The Price for a CIRM Grant
Salon.com Looks at Industry Opposition to SB771
Baristas to Bioworld: More on WARF Ruling Impact
California's Biomedical Industry Lays Out Opposition to SB771
Ruling Endangers $3.2 Million WARF Cash Stream
Geron Statement on WARF Patent Rulings
WARF's Gulbrandsen Holds Federal Patent Advisory Post
Links to WARF ESC Patent Rulings
WARF Staying the Course on ESC Patents
WARF Stem Cell Patent Claims Rejected
Secrecy and California's $100 Million in Stem Cell Grants
Kuehl On the Big Lie, Aging Porsches and Politics
CIRM Lab Grant Programs Coming Up in April
SB771: CHI Takes 'Not-So-Subtle Jab'
Eggs and Absurd Inconsistencies
Governmental Camels and Stem Cell Swag
Sacramento Bee: Fairness and Cha
Stem Cell Snippets: Financial Challenges, Kuehl and Presidential Search
LA Times Piece on CHA RMI Has Response from Researcher
The SB771 Debate: White Knights vs. Greedy Big Pharma?
RHA RMI Issues Receive Little Notice in Media
The CHA Example: How CIRM Decides Who Gets the Big Bucks
CGS: CIRM Grant Recipient Has 'Shadowed' History
FTCR Calls for Investigation Into California Stem Cell Grant
More on Plagiarism, Prayer and Cha
CIRM Grant Recipient Tied to Korean Scientist Involved in Plagiarism Controversy
Nature Warns of Sunburn; UC Davis Scientist Warns of Hidden Agendas
Zerhouni to Bush: Nation Better Served Without Research Restrictions
Beyond $131 Million: Looking Ahead at CIRM
Grant Coverage Light, Bloomberg Highlights Korean-linked Award
Grant Press Release Now on CIRM Web Site
CIRM Press Release on the Latest Grants
CIRM Hands Out Nearly $75 Million in Stem Cell Grants
Chiropractors, CIRM and Its Legislative Posture
CIRM Lending Plan Resurfaces, State Pension Funds Eyed
Uniform ESC Research Standards, More Federal Funding? Lower Your Expectations
The Multibillion Dollar Stem Cell Market and Its Challenges
Two Days of Stem Cells: Founder Flight to Hyperventilation
Klein on Clinical Trial Problems with ESC Research
CIRM IP Legislation Faces Tall Hurdle
Robert Klein's Unseemly Position
Sewell Comments on CIRM Executive Changes
CIRM's Worst Enemy? Maybe Prop. 71
The $80 Million Stem Cell Grant Proposals
Leon Thal: 'Meticulous, Unflappable, Creative'
CIRM CEO Search: The Pace and Talk of Candidates from Business and the Oversight Committee
Ebert Comments: Scientists Shy From Criticism, Controversy
New Structure for a New CIRM President
Stem Cell Snippets: Dirty Laundry and Openness
Pachter Joining CIRM, Another Audit Released
The 'Open Kimono' and Skimpy Audit Coverage
CIRM Hoping for Quick Supreme Court Action
CIRM's Conflicts: Beware the WARF Syndrome
State Audit: CIRM Likely to Find the Devil in the Details
State Auditor Releases CIRM Report
Justices Say They Had 'No Hesitation' in CIRM Case
'We Won!' Says CIRM; Appellate Court Rules for the Institute
Performance Audit of CIRM Expected This Week
How to Search the California Stem Cell Report
Legislature Posts Text of CIRM Legislation -- SB771
CIRM IP Legislation Begins Its Journey to Mixed Reviews
CGS: Grant Process 'Deeply Flawed' and 'Embarrassing
Kuehl to Lay Out CIRM Regulation
Governor's Cyberspace Splash on ESC Research
"New Action Heroes" Win Millions in ESC Research Grants
Patient Advocate Don Reed on the CIRM Grants
CIRM President Hall Speaks to Conflict-of-Interest and SEED Grants
The CIRM Lawsuit Appeal: Not a Plus for Opponents
Conflicts, Grants and CIRM Overseers: Openness vs. Fairness
CIRM's Court Date Draws Coverage
Sacramento Bee: CIRM Grants 'Needlessly Shrouded'
The CIRM Money Machine and Potential Scandal
Stem Cell Snippets: Court Appeals, Cheerleading,UC Davis Plans, Pera and Kuehl
Not Enough Info on Egg Donation Risks, Critic Says
ESC Research: Doing Well vs. Doing Good
Media Unexcited by SEED Grant Scores
SEED Grant Recommendations Available
Twenty-five Secret Applicants for $48.5 Million in Public Funds
Thal Dies in Small Plane Crash
Magnus: Do We Need More Guidelines?
Stem Cell Counsel Owed $110,000
The Pluripotent Presidential Candidate
Promoting California's Stem Cell Giveaway
Legislators Target California Stem Cell Agency
Rationale Behind Kuehl's Stem Cell Legislation
CIRM Presidential Search: Bids for Search Firm Perhaps Next Week
CIRM Presidential Search: Concern Over Leaks, Search Bids Likely
CIRM Presidential Search: Battey Approached
CIRM Guide to the $100 Million Grant Process
MSU Clears Cibelli of Misconduct
FTCR: No to Research and 'Big Name' for Next CIRM President
CIRM's Presidential Search: Time to Move with Dispatch
A Look Behind the WARF Patent Announcement
Ebert on WARF and the Patent Challenge
Reading the Economic Entrails of ESC Research
WARF Softens Stem Cell Patent Position, Critics Not Satisfied
Replacing Zach: A Chance to Weigh in on the Next President
CIRM Surfaces in Lobbying Article
The Search for a New Zach Hall
Surfing the Wave of Good Stem Cell Vibrations
Oral Appellate Arguments Set for February in California Stem Cell Lawsuit
The BioBay Stem Cell Outlook: Congress to IP
Economic Disclosure from the California Stem Cell Report
Two Years Before the Stem Cell Mast
Stem Cells and 'Things that Go Bump in the Night'
Stem Cell Humbuggery and Its Implications for California
Stem Cell Stocks: Buying a Will-o'-The-Wisp?
Fuel Your Stem Cell Edifice Complex
The Riddle of the Stem Cell Trinity
CIRM and Its Embarrassing Secrecy
CIRM's Lansing to Receive Oscar
Comments Sought by Your Mexico Correspondent
More Disclosure in Billion Dollar Giveaway Is In CIRM's Best Interest
The California Poster Child, Stem Cell Wars and Proverbial Church Picnics
Gov. Arnie on Stem Cell Research
Stem Cell Market Fever: A Cooler Perspective