<p>UC DAVIS RESEARCHERS AWARDED MORE STEM CELL FUNDS
March 16, 2007</p>
<p>(SACRAMENTO, Calif.) — California’s stem cell agency has awarded another pair of grants worth an estimated $5 million to UC Davis School of Medicine scientists conducting regenerative medicine research.</p>
<p>Researchers Alice Tarantal and Mark Zern were among 29 scientists receiving approval for grants today from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM), whose governing board — the Independent Citizens Oversight Committee (ICOC) — considered 70 proposals that will focus on human embryonic stem cell research.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/newsroom/releases/archives/research/2007/stemcell3-2007.html[/url]”>http://www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/newsroom/releases/archives/research/2007/stemcell3-2007.html</a></p>