California’s stem cell agency announced that it will be awarding $75 million research grants for various universities and nonprofit laboratories to fight against Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and Lou Gehrig’s diseases and additional stem cell research.

Announcing the grants, Zach Hall, president of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) said, that It’s exciting to know that in over 100 labs in California yhey will have human embryonic stem cell research taking off in a big way because of these grants”. In total over 29 scientific teams at 12 nonprofit institutes around the state were awarded grants to conduct different types of research.

Robert Klein, chairman of CIRM, said that they initially looked for institutes that were currently conducting research in human embryonic stem cells.

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