SACRAMENTO — After a last-ditch push for signatures, supporters of a $5.5 billion bond that would keep California’s stem cell research institute in business have qualified their measure for the November ballot. The measure asks voters to re-fund the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, the state’s stem cell agency, by allowing it to issue bonds for research, training
PALO ALTO, CA — Californians for Stem Cell Research, Treatments & Cures announced today that the California Stem Cell Research, Treatments and Cures Initiative of 2020 has qualified for the November 2020 statewide ballot. Voters will now have the opportunity to renew funding for the continued advancement of treatments and cures that could save or
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“The global epidemic of Alzheimer’s disease is worsening, and no approved treatment can revert or arrest progression of this disease.” — L. Goldstein, et al¹ In the classic comedy Splash, an old woman comes to work oddly dressed, with her bra on the outside of her sweater. It was just a funny moment, never explained. But
One of these institutes is the Gladstone Institute of Virology and will be lead by Dr. Melanie Ott. The immediate focus of this newly formed institution will be the current coronavirus pandemic. Additionally, it will focus on searching for new therapies against future infectious diseases. The Gladstone Institute of Virology will focus on how viruses interact with human cells to cause disease and how to intervene in that process. Dr. Ott’s goal is to identify pathways these viruses use to infect human cells as a way to develop innovative treatments.
We cannot overestimate the stakes of the battle we are in. In America alone, approximately 70,000 children, women, and men have died from the COVID-19 virus — and nearly a million and a half are infected.
PALO ALTO, CA — The California Stem Cell Research, Treatments and Cures Initiative of 2020 today finished submitting approximately 925,000 signatures to California’s counties to be counted and verified to qualify the initiative for the November 2020 ballot. If passed, the initiative will authorize $5.5 billion in state general obligation bonds to renew funding for
Backers of a potential $5.5 billion funding plan for California's stem cell research agency are going electronic to collect the final signatures on petitions to place the measure on the November ballot.
Supporters of a proposed $5.5 billion bond measure that would keep California’s stem cell research institute in business are asking thousands of people to mail in their signatures in hopes of qualifying the initiative for the November ballot.
