First Appeared Thursday, 20 July '06

UCSF's Stem Cell Efforts Highlighted in The New York Times, Other Media

Arnold Kriegstein, MD, PhD, director of the UCSF Institute for Regeneration Medicine, spoke to the national and local press about a bill approved by the Senate Tuesday that would have expanded federal funding for human embryonic stem cell research. The House approved the same bill last year. President George Bush vetoed the bill Wednesday.

In addition to The New York Times, Kriegstein spoke to NBC Nightly News, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Nature, Discovery News, AP radio, KGO-AM (ABC) radio and KPIX-TV (CBS 5) TV. He will participate in a call-in show on the topic Thursday on KQED-FM (88.5) radio's Forum with Michael Krasny.

UCSF has been a pioneer of the human embryonic stem cell field from the outset. In 2001, it derived two of the first human embryonic stem cell lines, and has since derived 11 new stem cell lines. UCSF scientists are also carrying out somatic cell nuclear transfer, or therapeutic cloning, studies. For more information about the UCSF Institute for Regeneration Medicine, see the Institute for Regeneration Medicine site.

Links:

Some Scientists See Shift in Stem Cell Hopes
New York Times, August 14, 2006

Stem Cells: The Facts, Not the Debate
On Point, WBUR, July 27, 2006

State Takes Lead in Stem Cell Efforts
Los Angeles Times, July 21, 2006

Forum with Michael Krasny, KQED, July 20, 2006

US Senate Passes Stem Cell Bill
Nature, July 19, 2006

In-Depth: Bush Vetoes Stem Cell Bill
Discovery News, July 19, 2006

Stem Cell Bill Seen as a Qualified Boon for Research
New York Times, July 18, 2006
(also available as a PDF file with UCSF references highlighted)

With Senate Passage Likely, Bush Vows Veto of Stem Cell Bill
San Francisco Chronicle, July 18, 2006

Eyewitness News, CBS 5 (KPIX), July 18, 2006

The California Report, KQED, July 17, 2006 (note: stem cell research segment begins 1 minute into the audio)

UCSF’S Kriegstein Weighs In on Reasons to Expand Federal Stem Cell Funding

What a Bush Veto Would Mean for Stem Cells
Time, July 17, 2006

NBC Nightly News, July 16, 2006
(note: this segment requires Internet Explorer and Windows Media Player; a 31-second advertisement will play before the 2:15 segment on Stem Cell Research featuring Kriegstein)

From Toronto, UCSF's Kriegstein Comments on the State of Stem Cell Science

Scientists Skirt Stem Cell Ban By Building Dual Labs, Firewalls
Bloomberg.com, June 16, 2006