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The Fiasco that Keeps Unfolding

Dec 15, 2007

Even GTO is sick of this story. Wired reports that California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, the stem cell agency, just had to disqualify 10 research groups that it had previously awarded grants. The groups were charged with conflict of interest problems because "officials at the research institutions applying for multimillion-dollar grants also hold positions at CIRM," the article says.

The groups hailed from the University of California's San Francisco, LA, and San Diego campuses, in addition to the University of Southern California and the Burnham Institute. According to the story, "In California, some newspapers are editorializing for an overhaul in the structure of CIRM, whose board of directors is riddled with built-in conflicts of interest."

 

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