The players on the oversight committee

Here is a complete list of the members of the oversight committee for the California Insitute for Regenerative Medicine as prepared by Stu Leavenworth, associate editor of The Sacramento Bee. The list was first carried in his nice overview of the agency in Sunday's Bee.

*Chair*
* Robert Klein II
Portola Valley developer and board member of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (nominated by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and other state officials)

*Vice Chair*
* Edward Penhoet
Co-founder of Chiron Corp. and current president of Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, a San Francisco philanthrophy (nominated by Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante and state Controller Steve Westly)

*Appointed by Schwarzenegger*

* Keith Black
Director of the Maxine Dunitz Neurosurgical Institute and director of neurosurgery at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

* Brian E. Henderson
Dean of University of Southern California's Keck School of Medicine

* Oswald Steward
Chairman and director of the Christopher Reeve-Irvine Research Center for Spinal Cord Injury at UC Irvine

* Leon J. Thal
Chairman of the Department of Neurosciences at UC San Diego and director of its Alzheimer's Disease Research Center

* Gayle Wilson
Wife of former Gov. Pete Wilson; corporate board member of Gilead Sciences Inc., a pharmaceutical firm, and other companies

*Appointed by Lt. Gov. Carlos Bustamante*

* Josephine Phyllis Preciado
Executive director of the Diabetes Research network, Fresno Collaborative, UC San Francisco; and executive director of the Latino Center for Medical Education and Research, Fresno

* Tina S. Nova
President and chief executive of Genoptix Inc. in San Diego

* Richard Murphy
Chief executive officer of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies

* Robert J. Birgeneau
Chancellor of UC Berkeley

* David Serrano Sewell
San Francisco deputy city attorney

*Appointed by state Treasurer Phil Angelides*

* David Baltimore
President of the California Institute of Technology

* Dr. Michael Friedman
President and chief executive officer of City of Hope, a research and treatment center

* Michael Goldberg
Venture capitalist from Woodside

* Dr. Francisco Prieto
President of the American Diabetes Association's Sacramento-Sierra chapter

* Janet Wright
Chico cardiologist and member of the American College of Cardiology

*Appointed by State Controller Steve Westly*

* Ted W. Love
President, chief executive and director of Nuvelo Inc., a biopharmaceutical company based in Sunnyvale

* Joan Samuelson
Founder and president of the nonprofit Parkinson's Action Network

* Philip Pizzo
Dean of Stanford Medical School

* John C. Reed
Chief executive of the Burnham Institute

* Sherry Lansing
Chairwoman and chief executive of Paramount Pictures' Motion Picture Group

*Appointed by Assembly Speaker Fabian Núñez*

* Jonathan Shestack
Founder of Cure Autism Now and producer at Warner Bros. studios

*Appointed by former Senate President Pro Tem John Burton*

* Jeff Sheehy
Deputy director for communications at UC San Francisco, AIDS Research Institute

*Appointed by UC chancellors who have campuses with medical schools*

* Susan V. Bryant
Dean of the UC Irvine School of Biological Sciences and professor of development/cell biology

* Edward W. Holmes
Dean of the UC San Diego School of Medicine and vice chancellor of UC San Diego Health Services

* David Kessler
Dean of the UC San Francisco School of Medicine and former head of the Food and Drug Administration

* Gerald S. Levey
Vice chancellor of UCLA Medical Sciences and dean of the medical school

* Claire Pomeroy
Dean of the UC Davis School of Medicine and vice chancellor of UC Davis Human Health Services