Friday, August 8, 2008

Trounson handed $3B, told to build stem-cell therapies

Alan Trounson’s job is to figure out how to spend $3 billion.
Doesn’t sound that tough on its face, but there’s a pretty
big catch: He’s supposed to give the money to people who can find
stem-cell-based medical therapies within a decade.

Trounson, a researcher who was a pioneer of in-vitro fertilization, runs the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, the shop set up after the state’s voters approved raising $3 billion in bonds to fund stem cell research. He’s profiled in today’s WSJ. from WSJ Health Blog

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