California’s Stem Cell Grant Process Frustrates Applicants
Some stem cell grant applicants are upset that the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine uses recommendations from panels of scientists who sometimes make significant errors in their grant request reviews to make funding decisions. The applicants do not have a formal appeals process like the one used by NIH to point out or dispute the errors, and the state's stem cell institute has no immediate plans to change its policy.
- "Stem Cell Grant Review Upsets Some Applicants" (Somers, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7/6).