Zach Hall Quotations

I think you'll find that (both policies) go above and beyond national and state standards. . . . I believe we are setting a new standard that the rest of the country and the world can follow.

This is indeed a day of celebration after what I would say was a long taxi down the runway.

It's a way of being sure we are ready to move when the money comes in and get our program under way immediately,

Scientists. What will not stop this from happening is government oversight.

This is an exciting moment for the CIRM as these awards mark the first step in our scientific program of stem cell research--an accomplishment we have been able to achieve in less than one year as a state agency. The CIRM training program established today will be the most comprehensive training program to date in the field. It will provide a pipeline of highly trained basic and clinical investigators for the research that CIRM will fund in California.

We want to hit the ground running once the money comes in. Rather than sending out a slow and gradual stream of funding, the plan now is to let a torrent of funding flow like waters set free from a sluice gate.

Those hospitals in the vanguard, who have organized to provide that kind of coordinated treatment, are able to bring patients in and treat them very quickly, ... But more hospitals and physicians and patients are not organized in that way.

And in the end, what I think we'll have is a product of compromise on everyone's behalf.

We are now, in reality, a funding agency, at last. This will bring new energy and ideas to stem cell research.

This program will be the most comprehensive and broadest program for stem cell research training in the country and I assume in the world,