UCLA and UCI Awarded $8M Grant to Launch Collaborative Stem Cell Clinic "Center of Excellence"

In a first-of-its-kind collaboration, the University of California, Los Angeles, Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research and University of California, Irvine Sue & Bill Gross Stem Cell Research Center received a five year $8M 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 $8M grant was one of three awarded today by CIRM as part of the CIRM Alpha Stem Cell Clinics Network Initiative.

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