tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10000891.post3290250855786213161..comments2024-02-21T19:56:57.057-08:00Comments on California Stem Cell Report: Growing Stem Cells and Raising Cash in CaliforniaDavid Jensenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00077329461962729362noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10000891.post-49339450224481183912014-01-25T16:25:14.410-08:002014-01-25T16:25:14.410-08:00David, your interesting posts regarding funding of...David, your interesting posts regarding funding of the genomics program further suggest that CIRM may be winging it a bit in regards to their grant application review operations. As always, your work in writing about and monitoring CIRM is greatly appreciated. --GSGrantSlavehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09524588085647944054noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10000891.post-61289394524385066652014-01-12T08:08:14.106-08:002014-01-12T08:08:14.106-08:00Later this week the California Stem Cell Report ex...Later this week the California Stem Cell Report expects to post an item dealing with the significant issues that our anonymous reader has raised concerning CIRM voting requirements and awards that he argues have nothing to do with stem cells. David Jensenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00077329461962729362noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10000891.post-22163125508285566032014-01-12T08:04:42.708-08:002014-01-12T08:04:42.708-08:00Weissman had difficulty filing his comment on &quo...Weissman had difficulty filing his comment on "anonymous" comment so the California Stem Cell Report is filing it for him. He said, "Anonymous need not remain anonymous." <br />David Jensenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00077329461962729362noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10000891.post-28049231906951852872014-01-07T18:22:35.725-08:002014-01-07T18:22:35.725-08:00CIRM successfully fought SB 1565, which would have...CIRM successfully fought SB 1565, which would have eliminated the two-thirds vote requirement to fund non-stem-cell research. They said at the time the vote requirement was very important. Interesting that the review summaries of the non-stem-cell cancer grants give no indication that the legally mandated votes were taken.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10000891.post-45717401497861496732014-01-06T07:50:31.279-08:002014-01-06T07:50:31.279-08:00Is it not clear that Irv Weissman is CIRM's pu...Is it not clear that Irv Weissman is CIRM's puppet master? Check out how much funding has gone to him and the surrogates he uses- young Stanford faculty dependent on him and his former postdocs who are still under his thrall.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10000891.post-10760403180012595672014-01-03T23:13:23.850-08:002014-01-03T23:13:23.850-08:00The great promise of regenerative medicine makes o...The great promise of regenerative medicine makes one wonder why CIRM is spending so many of its remaining dollars on cancer research completely unrelated to regenerative medicine. As I discuss <a href="http://www.grantslave.com/2014/01/taking-r-out-of-cirm-is-stem-cell.html" rel="nofollow">here</a>, in funding such research, CIRM is not complying with the clear intent of the law, and may indeed be acting unlawfully. (Perhaps, David, you know whether CIRM is following the legally-mandated procedure for funding research outside the law's intended scope: the law requires that, in addition to the ordinary grant review, there needs to be a special vote, with the proposed research garnering a two-thirds supermajority to be funded. I can find no record or even mention of the required deliberations in documents available on the CIRM website.) Half of the grant awards announced in CIRM's Dec. 12th, 2013, press release were for cancer research outside the intended scope of Prop 71: this is approximately $30 million that is not going towards regenerative medicine.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com