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“Solomonic” CIRM Proposal: Institutional Board Members Would not Vote on Grants

January 23, 2013 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D.

I just received a copy of the CIRM proposed response to the IOM recommendations. Regarding what I believe to be the most important element, revamping the CIRM Board (aka ICOC), I was interested to see that CIRM (via President Jonathan Thomas) recommended that all institutional members of the Board no longer vote on whether to […]

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Live Blogging the CIRM Board meeting on the IOM report

January 23, 2013 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D.

I made it here in one piece to Berkeley at the Claremont Hotel driving through torrential rain to get here for the CIRM Board Meeting discussing the recent Institute of Medicine (IOM) report on CIRM. The Board is in intensive discussion as I type. Some members seem more in favor of change and others are

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CIRM goes genomic: the California stem cell agency focuses on DNA

January 22, 2012 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D.

In June 2011 I did a post about genomics and its growing importance both for science and society. The stem cell field has a very rapidly accelerating genomic component as well. I went so far as to call it a revolution and I still believe that is not an exaggeration. CIRM has rightly recognized the

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Word Cloud of Every CIRM-funded grant yields some surprising insights

January 2, 2012 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 3 Comments

CIRM, the California stem cell agency, has funded hundreds of grants during its relatively short existence. You can do searches of these grants through a handy dandy web portal that CIRM has made available–it’s a very cool tool and I commend CIRM for making it available. I wish the tool had more options however including

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The news of CIRM and clinical trial: don’t forget the patient

September 21, 2011 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 1 Comment

As much as so many were excited yesterday about the enrollment of the first patient in a CIRM-funded clinical trial, I did not see a mention of a very important element. The patient. Our excitement about the clinical trial moving forward is understandable, but we also need to keep a sober perspective on the fact

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Venter: CIRM is the greatest scientific organization founded in our era.

September 16, 2011 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D.

The CIRM Grantee Meeting will wrap up today in San Francisco with more great talks I am sure. It has been an inspiring meeting and one that fills me with hope for stem cell science to help a huge number of patients. The meeting was kicked off with a talk by Craig Venter, the amazing

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California pays its sports coaches alone more than the entire payroll of CIRM

July 13, 2011 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 5 Comments

There has been a largely media-fed hullabaloo about the salary for the new Chair of CIRM, the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, $400,000. Now don’t get me wrong, that sounds like a lot of money to me personally, but we need to put it in perspective and when we do, the salary is reasonable and

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Why I am super optimistic about the future of CIRM

June 30, 2011 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D.

In the last week, a number of newspapers in California have run articles or editorials about CIRM, some negative. I think in part this attention was stimulated by the Election of a new Chair at CIRM. The new Chair for CIRM is Dr. Jonathan Thomas, who I am confident will do an outstanding job. On

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CIRM funds $25 million for Geron trial, $38 million for basic biology

May 4, 2011 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 8 Comments

CIRM announced two sets of awards today that both should make major impact including its first clinical trial via Geron and $38 million for 27 basic biology studies. First Clinical Trial. Today CIRM awarded $25 million to support Geron’s FDA-approved clinical trial for spinal cord injury. This is CIRM’s first award to a for-profit company

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CIRM is the largest funder of overall stem cell research in the world

February 15, 2011 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 1 Comment

Is CIRM the tops? Overall, not focusing just on ES cell research, who is the largest funding agency in the world for stem cell research? CIRM funding If you think about CIRM, funding stem cell grants just in California, versus NIH funding stem cell research across the country, who might you imagine would have provided

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