UCLA and UCI awarded $8 million grant to launch collaborative stem cell clinic

The UCLA Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research and UC Irvine Sue and Bill Gross Stem Cell Research Center received a five-year $8 million grant from the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine, the state's stem cell agency, to establish a CIRM Alpha Stem Cell Clinic "center of excellence" to conduct clinical trials for investigational stem cell therapies and provide critical resources and expertise in clinical research. The grant was one of three awarded this week as part of the CIRM Alpha Stem Cell Clinics Network Initiative.

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