David Jensen

Internationally renown scientist Lee Hood, winner of a National Medal of Science, violated the conflict of interest policies of the California stem cell agency earlier this year when he was involved in reviewing applications in a $40 million round to c...

Here is the full text of the statement today by Kevin McCormack, senior director for public communications at the California stem cell agency, in connection with the conflict of interest issue involving Lee Hood, president of Institute for Systems Biol...

Oregon's stem cell cloning achievement has triggered some discussion about whether it could be replicated legally in California, which bans paying for eggs as was done in Oregon. Stanford researcher Irv Weissman said it is “not true” that Oregon...

Stanford researcher Irv Weissman says it is “not true” that Oregon's stem cell research could not be done legally in California. In a brief email to the California Stem Cell Report, he commented in connection with yesterday's item that said...

The good news out of Oregon is that some diligent scientists in the Beaver State have accomplished a major advance in stem cell research --- the cloning of human stem cells. That bad news is that their research would have been illegal in California,...

A number of top level executives, in addition to six lawyers, at the California stem cell agency knew of Robert Klein's $21,630 donation in May of last year although they failed to report it to the agency's board as required by agency regulations. ...

The Robert Klein-StemCells, Inc., affair has taken another turn with the disclosure that a vice chairman of the California stem cell agency was paid at least $31,000 over a two-year period by Klein and also voted on behalf of Klein's effort to win appr...

As the California stem cell agency pushes ever more aggressively to turn research into cures, the second largest share of its awards, in terms of numbers of grants, has gone to efforts involving induced pluripotent cells, also known as reprogrammed a...

The California Stem Cell Report today received the following email from Don Reed, a patient advocate, who has long been involved in California stem cell agency affairs. Reed is vice president of public policy for Americans for Cures Foundation, a...

Last week UC Davis stem cell researcher Paul Knoepfler and Scripps researcher Jeanne Loring engaged in an online Q&A that touched on patents and how they can stifle research and discourage development of therapies. Loring did not mention it in t...