Winners From Today's Awards by the California Stem Cell Agency

The 12 winners in the latest round of grants from the California stem cell agency all come from institutions linked to directors on the agency's governing board. Board members with conflicts of interest are not allowed to vote on the grants or participate in the debate. Since the inception of the agency, more than 90 percent of its awards have gone to institutions linked to the directors. Here is a link to the CIRM press release on today's meeting.

Here is the list of researchers who won awards today.

New Faculty Physician Scientist Translational Research Awards

RN3-06530	Robert Baloh	Cedars-Sinai Medical Center	$3,031,737.00
RN3-06378	Reza Ardehali	University of California, Los Angeles	$2,930,388.00
RN3-06504	Jason Pomerantz	University of California, San Francisco	$3,084,000.00
RN3-06396	Mana Parast	University of California, San Diego	$3,013,252.00
RN3-06425	Tracy Grikscheit	Children's Hospital of Los Angeles	$3,408,000.00
RN3-06532	Tippi MacKenzie	University of California, San Francisco	$2,661,742.00
RN3-06479	Ann Capela Zovein	University of California, San Francisco	$3,084,000.00
RN3-06529	Alan Cheng	Stanford University	$3,091,595.00
RN3-06455	Ali Nsair	University of California, Los Angeles	$3,004,315.00
RN3-06460	Emanual Maverakis	University of California, Davis	$2,964,000.00
RN3-06510	Michelle Monje	Stanford University	$2,800,536.00
RN3-06525	Ophir Klein	University of California, San Francisco	$3,084,000.00
Total			$36,157,565.00