The Enormous Waste of CA Prop71 by CIRM on Those Entitlements Not Called Stem Cell Research

The public assumes that California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) understands that the law Prop71 was passed for utilizing human embryonic stem cell (hESC) potential to develop therapies and cures for those major health problems that so far have no other options, like heart diseases, diabetes, Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, Lou Gehrig’s disease, and spinal cord injury. Since the large cap of the healthcare market, in return, it would benefit the State’s economy, not waste their investment. The public assumes that CIRM understands that they did not pass a public bond measure for anything less than human cells. The public assumes that CIRM has the basic public knowledge that only human cells can be used for medicine, therapy and cure. However, CA’s human embryonic stem cell research and therapy awards, urgent to those patients CIRM really cares in their public statement, have not been able to make to CIRM ICOC board meetings $100M after $100M, years after years, months after months. By contrast, how did a fruit-fly individual not in CA prioritized by CIRM to their ICOC board meeting for stem cell research leadership award in less than 2 months? Did really Sanford-Burnham’s President Kristina Vuori have no public knowledge at all to cast her outstanding Yes vote for $6M CA stem cell bond to waste on fruit-fly? Who are those really behind it? Who are those who really want to turn CIRM into snake oil purveyor #1 in the world, considering that even those stem cell con men out there or on 60 minutes still have the least moral concern to use human cells?

People were asking me that what the hell we need $100M on Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine in historic La Jolla in this economy that cannot even be used for stem cell research? People were asking me that how come our human embryonic stem cell research and therapy development, leading the California and the whole world, could not even pass CIRM’s pre-applications to receive a penny support from Prop71 in 8 years? People were asking me that, with $3B CA stem cell research and cure act to prioritize human embryonic stem cell research, how come human embryonic stem cell research labs were shut down by those officials who have already entitled $1.3B of it? People were asking me how come the mesenchymal stem cell (MSC) has more stem cell activity than the human embryonic stem cell against any scientific merits to pass ICOC board eligible for wasting other $200M state stem cell bond? People were asking me …?

In the next few blogs, we will take you to inside the ICOC board meeting, to cases of CIRM human embryonic stem cell research and therapy pre-applications and applications in the hope that you will find those answers we all search for.