{"id":1063527,"date":"2013-08-12T23:03:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-13T03:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.immortalitymedicine.tv\/stem-cell-therapy\/duane-roth-ecumenical-innovator-for-san-diego-and-biotech.php"},"modified":"2024-08-17T20:30:17","modified_gmt":"2024-08-18T00:30:17","slug":"duane-roth-ecumenical-innovator-for-san-diego-and-biotech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/stem-cell-therapy\/duane-roth-ecumenical-innovator-for-san-diego-and-biotech.php","title":{"rendered":"Duane Roth: Ecumenical Innovator for San Diego and Biotech"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Xconomy<\/b> news service today carried
a sterling look<\/a> at the contributions that Duane Roth<\/b>, co-vice
chairman of the California stem cell agency, made before his untimely
death as the result of a bicycle accident.<\/div>
<\/div>
Reporter Bruce Bigelow<\/b> pulled together
a host of comments concerning Roth's involvement in the San Diego
community, ranging from biotech to action sports companies. The
headline on the piece read, “The Connector Who Wired up a Regional
Innovation Economy.”<\/div>
<\/div>
At the time of his death at the age of
63, Roth was CEO of Connect<\/b>, a nonprofit organization that supported
technology and innovation and one that he was credited with reviving.
Bigelow also wrote,<\/div>

“Once California voters approved a
2004 ballot proposition that authorized the issuance of $3 billion in
grants for stem cell R&D, (Mary) Walshok<\/b> (associate vice
chancellor for public programs at UC San Diego<\/b>) said Roth also played
a key role in bringing together UCSD, Scripps, Salk<\/b>, and
Sanford-Burnham<\/b> to create the Sanford Consortium for Regenerative
Medicine<\/b>. In fact, Walshok doubts whether anyone but Duane Roth could
have brought the four major research centers together.”<\/p><\/blockquote>

Another speaker at the memorial
services Friday attended by about 1,000 persons was Bill Walton,<\/b> the
former UCLA<\/b> and NBA<\/b> great, who grew up in San Diego.<\/div>
<\/div>
Bigelow wrote,<\/div>

“Walton, the NBA Hall of Famer who
has led San Diego Sports Innovators<\/b> as a division of Connect since
2010, said Roth became a business mentor to him. In his comments
Friday afternoon, Walton said Roth inspired him to be a better
person, and he counted Roth among the people who had the biggest
influence on his life—a list that included his own father, UCLA
coach John Wooden<\/b>, sportscaster Chick Hearn<\/b>, author David Halberstam,<\/b>
and Jerry Garcia<\/b> of the Grateful Dead<\/b>.”<\/p><\/blockquote>

Bigelow described Roth as an ecumenical
and pragmatic advocate for innovation who could work with persons who
did not always agree with him on all issues. He was a conservative
and active Republican, but his co-vice chair at at the stem cell
agency, Art Torres<\/b>, former chairman of the state Democratic Party, on
more than one occasion has lauded Roth's ability to work together.<\/div>
<\/div>
Bigelow wrote about similar remarks
Friday by Don Rosenberg<\/b>, an executive vice president and general
counsel at Qualcomm<\/b>.<\/div>

“'Duane and I were as different as
two people can be,' Rosenberg said during his eulogy at the Church of
the Immaculata<\/b>. 'Duane was born in Iowa, baptized in the Mennonite
church, a Republican. And me, raised in Brooklyn, Jewish, a Democrat.
We quickly learned we had more in common. We were kindred spirits. We
liked the same things: Bikes, biking, cars, and people.'”<\/p><\/blockquote>

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