{"id":1063407,"date":"2012-12-16T07:51:19","date_gmt":"2012-12-16T07:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.longevitymedicine.tv\/la-times-on-the-california-stem-cell-agency-and-wasting-700000\/"},"modified":"2024-08-17T20:29:19","modified_gmt":"2024-08-18T00:29:19","slug":"la-times-on-the-california-stem-cell-agency-and-wasting-700000-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/stem-cell-therapy\/la-times-on-the-california-stem-cell-agency-and-wasting-700000-2.php","title":{"rendered":"LA Times: On the California Stem Cell Agency and Wasting $700,000"},"content":{"rendered":"

The headline on the Los Angeles
Times<\/b> web site this afternoon read,<\/p>

\"Is California's stem cell program
preparing to waste $700,000?\"<\/p><\/blockquote>

The question was raised by Pulitzer
Prize-winning columnist Michael Hiltzik<\/b>, whowas commenting<\/a> on the presentation today by the
prestigious Institute of Medicine's (IOM)<\/b> on its sweeping
recommendations for changes at the state stem cell agency. <\/div>
<\/div>
Hiltzik wrote, <\/div>

\"If you're betting that
the California
stem cell agency will spurn key recommendations of a
blue-ribbon review panel that criticized its leadership and
management structures, you might want to double that bet. Several
board members showed overt hostility to the panel's recommendations
during a public meeting today.\"<\/p><\/blockquote>

Harold Shapiro<\/b>, chairman of the IOM
panel and former president of Princeton University<\/b>, delivered
the briefing. The group's study took 17 months and cost the stem cell
agency $700,000.<\/div>
<\/div>
Hiltzik's piece summarized the IOM
proposals, which echoed many criticisms that have been aired for
years in California.  Hiltzik wrote, <\/div>

\"CIRM Chairman Jonathan
Thomas<\/b> glided over those issues when he introduced Shapiro.
Thomas observed that the Institute of Medicine report included many
statements \"validating CIRM, its process, what it was able to
achieve,\" which is a bit like launching the investigation of a
plane crash by focusing on all the planes that land safely every day.
Thomas did mention that the Institute of Medicine had made numerous
recommendation about how to \"take something which is already a
great experience and improve it even further.\" <\/p><\/blockquote>

\"Shapiro got only a few minutes
into his presentation before board members started interrupting him
with objections to the Institute of Medicine's recommendation for a
majority of independent members.\"<\/p><\/blockquote>

Hiltzik concluded, <\/div>

\"Thomas promised to stage a public
workshop on the Institute of Medicine report soon and to subject them
to 'lengthy discussion.' <\/p><\/blockquote>

\"Does that sound as if the board
will be taking seriously the advice that it change the way it does
business? Stay tuned, but don't hold your breath.\"<\/p><\/blockquote>

<\/div>
\"\"<\/div>

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