STEM CELL CHAMPION STEPS DOWN: new leadership for California program By Don C. Reed I am still a little in shock. On June 23rd, Bob Klein resigned the leadership of the California stem cell program—which he began. His initiative, Prop 71, the California Stem...
CANADIAN DELIGHTS—a Patient Advocate’s Perspective on the 9th Annual International Society of Stem Cell Research Conference By Don C. Reed “You’ve got to see Niagara Falls while you’re here,” said my flight mate, “It is gorgeous from the Canadian side.” “I couldn’t...
CIRM SENDS PATIENT ADVOCATES TO INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF STEMCELL RESEARCHERS CONFERENCE! By Don C. Reed A few hours from now, I will sit in an astonishingly narrow airplane seat, and shove my briefcase full of reading materials under the seat in front of me. The jet...
CALIFORNIA VERSUS THE VALLEY OF DEATH by Don C. Reed There is a place you will not find on any map. It has no physical location. But it is real nonetheless, and a danger to all mankind. It is the Valley of Death, where new medicines die. May 4th, 2011. Gloria and I...