{"id":1063537,"date":"2013-08-28T20:17:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-29T00:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.longevitymedicine.tv\/stem-cells\/ucla-takes-four-of-13-awards-today-one-business-wins.php"},"modified":"2024-08-17T20:30:22","modified_gmt":"2024-08-18T00:30:22","slug":"ucla-takes-four-of-13-awards-today-one-business-wins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/stem-cell-therapy\/ucla-takes-four-of-13-awards-today-one-business-wins.php","title":{"rendered":"UCLA Takes Four of 13 Awards Today; One Business Wins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>The California stem cell agency has<br>made it official, sending out its press release on the $41 million in grants<br>approved today for institutions throughout the state.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p><div><\/div><div><span>Most of the 13 awards, as usual, went to organizations represented on the governing board of<br>the agency. Individual board members, however, are barred from voting on specific grants<br>to their organizations.&nbsp;<\/span><span><\/span><\/div><div><\/div><div><b><span>UCLA<\/span><\/b><span><span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><span>topped the list with four grants. No other<br>institution received more than one, including only one business,<span>&nbsp;<\/span><b>Numerate, Inc<\/b>., of San Bruno,<br>via<span><b>&nbsp;<\/b><\/span><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.numerate.com\/company\/john_griffin.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John<br>Griffin<\/a><\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.numerate.com\/company\/john_griffin.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">, the firm's chief scientific officer<\/a>. The lack of awards<br>to businesses has long been a sore subject in the biotech community.&nbsp;<\/span><span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/div><div><\/div><div><span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.utsandiego.com\/news\/2013\/aug\/28\/cirm-approves-stem-cell-grants\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The only news story so far<\/a><span>&nbsp;<\/span>was written by<span>&nbsp;<\/span><b>Bradley Fikes<\/b><span>&nbsp;<\/span>of the<span>&nbsp;<\/span><b>San Diego U-T<\/b>, which circulates in an area that is a hotbed of biotech research. Institutions there snagged $12.6 million in four grants. Fikes also<br>identified one of the five researchers who lost their appeals on negative grant<br>review decisions. He is<span>&nbsp;<\/span><b>Evan<br>Snyder<\/b>,<\/span><span>&nbsp;leader of stem cell research at<span>&nbsp;<\/span><b>Sanford-Burnham Medical Research<br>Institute<\/b><span>&nbsp;<\/span>in La Jolla, who<br>had a $5 million request before the agency.<\/span><\/div><p><\/p><div><span>The agency's<span>&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/cirm.ca.gov\/about-cirm\/newsroom\/press-releases\/08282013\/stem-cell-agency-awards-more-40-million-new-research\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">press release can be found here<\/a><span>&nbsp;<\/span>with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cirm.ca.gov\/application-reviews\/11713\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more information on the proposed research here. &nbsp;<\/a><\/span><span><\/span><\/div><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.longevitymedicine.tv\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/63f5bb27eb_cdlc-HWVO2c.\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\">Source:<br><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/blogspot\/uqpFc\/~3\/cdlc-HWVO2c\/ucla-takes-four-of-13-awards-today-one.html\">http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/blogspot\/uqpFc\/~3\/cdlc-HWVO2c\/ucla-takes-four-of-13-awards-today-one.html<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The California stem cell agency hasmade it official, sending out its press release on the $41 million in grantsapproved today for institutions throughout the state.&nbsp;Most of the 13 awards, as usual, went to organizations represented on the governing board ofthe &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/stem-cell-therapy\/ucla-takes-four-of-13-awards-today-one-business-wins.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[25,1246878],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1063537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stem-cell-therapy","category-stem-cells"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063537"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1063537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1063537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1063537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1063537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}