California Stem Cell Agency Announces Upcoming Subcommittee Meeting of Independent Citizens Oversight Committee

EMERYVILLE, CA—The Scientific and Medical Research Funding Working Group Search Subcommittee of the Independent Citizens Oversight Committee (“ICOC”,) or governing board of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (“the Institute”), will have its next regular meeting on March 18, 2005.

Organized Pursuant to the CALIFORNIA STEM CELL RESEARCH AND CURES ACT
Friday, March 18, 2005
2:30 pm – 5:30 pm
Location
University of California, San Diego
4th Floor, Room 461
Office of the Vice Chancellor for Health Sciences
UCSD Dean of the School of Medicine
Pepper Canyon Hall
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, CA 92093-0602

Pursuant to Government Code section 11123, subdivision (b), members of the Committee will be attending this meeting from teleconference locations. Members of the public are welcome to attend from these locations as well.

For a complete list of meeting locations and agenda, please visit the Institute’s web site at www.cirm.ca.gov.

The ICOC is responsible for the oversight and management of the Institute. The Institute was established in 2004 with the passage of Proposition 71, the California Stem Cell Research and Cures Initiative. The statewide ballot measure, which provided $3 billion in funding in stem cell research at California universities and research institutions, was overwhelmingly approved by California voters, and called for the establishment of an entity to make grants and provide loans for stem cell research facilities and other vital research opportunities.

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