Geron's high-flying coattails are having a sharp impact today on the prices of some of its competitors.
Streetinsider.com reported earlier today that Aastrom Biosciences, Inc., of Ann Arbor, Mi., and StemCells Inc. of Palo Alto, Ca.,, both jumped 30 percent. At that point, Geron was up 50 percent. (StemCells Inc. was founded by Irv Weissman of Stanford, Fred Gage of the Salk Institute and David Anderson of Caltech.)
Meanwhile scientist Hans Kierstad of UC Irvine or one of his associates has emblazoned "a flash" on the website at California Stem Cell Inc. Geron's hESC therapy is based on technology invented and co-developed by Kierstad and Gabriel Nistor, also of UC Irvine. Kierstad is the chairman of the California Stem Cell scientific advisory board, of which Nisor is also a member.
At the time of this writing, Geron's stock price stood at $7.64, up 47 percent.
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