Zach Hall Stem Quotations

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

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

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.

It will be the spring of 2007 before we will be able to pursue stem cell research on the scale that the voters of Prop. 71 expect.

I'm delighted to see this. This is just the kind of thing we want to encourage institutes working together on stem cell research and pooling their resources.

In the Human Genome Project, we at least knew what the endpoint would be. It was just a technology question of how to get there. In our case, we are asking questions that no one knows the answer to because stem cell research is so new.