CIRM Mediocre Leaders of No Leads --- Directors’ Sidekicks and Freebies

CIRM awarded leaders all bore one unmistakenable resemblance to the sidekicks of CIRM directors, such as Eric Ahrens and Robert Wechsler-Reya to Sanford Directors Larry Goldstein and Evan Snyder, Hiromitsu Nakauchi to Irv Weissman of Stanford U, Barry Stripp to Cleve Svendsen of Cedars-Sinai & UCLA, Kevin Parker to Deepak Srivastava of Gladstone & UCSF. Are any leaders in any societies, coalitions, or communities expected to have at least some sort of acceptable leadership activity or accomplishment to be a leader, if it is not up to the standard of outstanding?  However, CIRM awarded leaders are definitely exception to the meaning of leader in any languages. Besides their close relationship with CIRM directors, they all have one thing in common, they have absolutely no leadership activity nor accomplishment in the stem cell community to make them pass the standard of acceptable or outstanding to lead anyone but corruption. Therefore, it would be more appropriate to translate CIRM leaders as CIRM directors’ sidekicks or freebies for sneaking tens of millions of taxpayer money from stem cell research in CIRM’s own language that can only be found in the government corruption directory. To make it more obvious, CIRM ICOC directors and president Alan Trounson even went extra miles to sneak more millions of taxpayer money for stem cell research as freebies to CIRM vice chair/UC connect Duane Roth’s company Sangamo BioSciences for something that is neither new nor eligible for Prop 71 stem cell research. It makes us all wonder what those CIRM ICOC directors are wasting taxpayer money to meet together really for on a regular basis, how come CIRM directors’ requests for sidekicks and freebies have become commands to CIRM ICOC for hundreds of millions of taxpayer money, and how come CIRM directors’ interests and requests, and ONLY CIRM directors’ interests and requests, for sidekicks and freebies are CIRM president, chair, ICOC’s commands for money in a State government agency that is designated public money for stem cell research and fair competition by a law.