Chief of Calif. stem cell venture resigns

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 12/7/6 | Carl T. Hall

[SmithL]

IRVINE -- The president of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine resigned his post today, citing "almost entirely personal reasons" for leaving the controversial $3-billion stem-cell research venture created in 2004 by the passage of Proposition 71.

Zach W. Hall, at a meeting at UC-Irvine of the agency's governing board, noted that he had recently turned 69. "I find myself looking ahead," he said.

Hall and his wife, a recently retired musician, own a home in Wyoming. "We're looking forward to reinventing ourselves," he said.

Hall said the institute was in good shape, and that it has $181 million in the bank.

[SmithL]

Zach W. Hall is a veteran med-school administrator, research dean and biotech entrepreneur.

[SmithL]

Your tax dollars, . . .

[G Larry]

If there were ANY scientific potential for ESC research, it wouldn't NEED government funding.

Adult Stem Cell research is doing just fine with private money AND IT'S PRODUCING RESULTS!

[rhombus]

Hall and his wife, a recently retired musician, own a home in Wyoming. "We're looking forward to reinventing ourselves," he said.

And reinventing Wyoming? This is one reason Wyoming is going blue.

[CottShop]

He 'finds himself looking ahead' which is more than those he murders can say! http://sacredscoop.com

[NormsRevenge]

Thanks for posting ! and a ccg ping, to boot..

[calcowgirl]

Bumpity bump!

[Anti-MSM]

The president of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine resigned his post today, citing "almost entirely personal reasons" for leaving the controversial $3-billion stem-cell research venture created in 2004 by the passage of Proposition 71.

What really stuns me about this article is that the SF Chronicle used the word "controversial" to describe a liberal pet project.

[colorado tanker]

Wyoming isn't going blue. The Dem governor is very conservative by Dem standards. And Cubin was a very weak candidate for Congress.

There have always been some very wealthy people who come to Wyoming because of the low taxes. They tend to cluster around Jackson. They often leave because they don't like the winters. And even around Jackson, Wyoming is a far cry from Californy.

[rhombus]

The place sounds great to me. Maybe I'll check it out. NE absorbed NH.

[colorado tanker]

A lot of good people up in Wyo.

[Lexinom]

I assume he's looking ahead to eternity.

[SmithL]

"almost entirely personal reasons"

This is the line that caught my attention. It makes me wonder about what the non-personal reasons might be.

[CottShop]

He should be investing in ice- he's going to need it

[muawiyah]

Amazing, Hannah Arendt's comment about the "banality of evil" continues to be so terribly true.

And here all this guy wanted to do was advance the day when he could inject embryonic stem cells into the brains of handicapped people so they could grow tumors. Now he's putting personal interests first.

Madness does have limits eh.