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  • CA: First appointment made to California stem cell board (Birthing of a new bureaucracy?)

    11/05/2004 4:10:08 PM PST · by NormsRevenge · 43 replies · 649+ views
    Bakersfield Californian ^ | 11/5/04 | AP - Sacramento
    SACRAMENTO (AP) - Dr. Philip Pizzo, dean of Stanford University's medical school, on Friday became the first appointee to a board that will oversee a new stem cell research agency approved by California voters. Proposition 71, which passed 59 percent to 41 percent Tuesday, will have the state borrow $3 billion to fund stem cell research. It establishes the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, which will be managed by a 29-member board to be appointed over the next month. The board, in turn, will appoint two committee to approve grants. One committee will approve money for research, while the other...