California Institute for Regenerative Medicine Media Advisory: ICOC to Announce CIRM Training Program at Upcoming Meeting in Sacramento.EMERYVILLE, Calif. -- On Friday Friday: see Sabbath; week. Friday young Indian rescued by Crusoe and kept as servant and companion. [Br. Lit.: Robinson Crusoe] See : Servant (9/9/05), the Independent Citizens' Oversight
Oversight may refer to:
ICOC International Church of Christ ICOC International Code of Conduct ICOC Integrated Combat Operations Center ICOC Instructions for Commodores of Convoys ) for the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) was created by California's Proposition 71 (2004), which authorized it to issue $3 billion in grants, funded by bonds, over ten years for embryonic stem cell and other biomedical research. (CIRM CIRM Certified in Integrated Resource Management CIRM California Institute for Regenerative Medicine CIRM Comité International Radio-Maritime (International Radio-Medical Center) CIRM Corporate Infrastructure Resource Management ) will meet and award its first grants to establish the CIRM Training Program in Stem Cell stem cell In living organisms, an undifferentiated cell that can produce other cells that eventually make up specialized tissues and organs. There are two major types of stem cells, embryonic and adult. Research. The program will support training in California California (kăl'ĭfôr`nyə), most populous state in the United States, located in the Far West; bordered by Oregon (N), Nevada and, across the Colorado River, Arizona (E), Mexico (S), and the Pacific Ocean (W). institutions for pre-doctoral, post-doctoral and clinical fellows in stem cell research.
WHO: Independent Citizens' Oversight Committee
WHEN: FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9
8:30 A.M. -- 5:30 P.M. (Estimated)
WHERE: Sheraton Grand Sacramento
Hendricks-Baker & Camellia
Rooms 1230 J Street
Sacramento, CA 95814
WHAT: Members of the ICOC will consider recommendations from
the Grants Working Group, discuss a potential second
round of grant funding and consider a report from the
Standards Working Group on CIRM interim guidelines for
human embryonic stem cell research.
ICOC members will vote on individual applications for
RFA 05-01: CIRM Training Program in Stem Cell Research,
using the following protocol:
-- Each applicant will be identified by a number, not
by organization.
-- The ICOC will take a roll call vote on each
application.
-- ICOC members will not vote on any application for
which they have a conflict of interest.
-- The CIRM Training Program in Stem Cell Research
will be announced, along with participating
institutions, at a press conference immediately
following the closed session on the meeting
agenda.
For a summary of all training grant applications, please visit: http://www.cirm.ca.gov/working_group/summarytable.asp. For the full agenda of the September September: see month. 9 ICOC meeting in Sacramento Sacramento, city, United States Sacramento (săkrəmĕn`tō), city (1990 pop. 369,365), state capital and seat of Sacramento co., central Calif. , please visit: http://www.cirm.ca.gov/meetings/2005/09/09-09-05.asp.
At the beginning of the meeting, the ICOC will hear a
special presentation on patients living with
Alzheimer's disease by ICOC members Tina Nova, PhD, of
GenOptix, Inc. and Leon Thal, MD, of the University of
California San Diego; and Jackie Wynne McGrath of the
California Council of the Alzheimer's Association.
WHY: The ICOC is responsible for the oversight and
management of the CIRM, which 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
for stem cell research at California universities and
research institutions, was approved by California
voters, and called for the establishment of an entity
to make grants and provide loans for stem cell
research, research facilities, and other vital
research opportunities.
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