Sacramento Bee Ten of the 29 directors of California's new stem cell program serve on biotech or pharmaceutical firms' boards of directors or have extensive holdings…
The board had earlier established a full-time pay range for the CIRM chairman position at $275,000 to $508,750. Klein had requested that he start earning a…
Sacramento Bee The Santa Monica-based Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights had also suggested the lower federal price as a condition of licensing state research.
A panel votes today on what the lowest price really means.Sacramento Bee "I'm not comfortable that what they're calling for is the lowest price," said John…
Committee charged with overseeing state-funded research is already wading through political, financial and legal muck.The Orange County Register (California) Jerry Flanagan, an advocate with the Foundation…
29-member board sworn in; biotech exec is vice chairThe San Francisco Chronicle A Los Angeles nonprofit, the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights, issued a news…
Associated Press Jerry Flanagan of the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights said that a main concern is that research grants will be given on the…
The New York Times Some board members have been criticized for their ties to large biotechnological and pharmaceutical companies, including Pfizer and Amgen. Jerry Flanagan, an…
A new pharmaceutical front group, "CURES," opposing legislation to reimport cheaper U.S. made prescription drugs from Canada has political ties to both the Schwarzenegger and Bush…