State Supreme Court ends legal wrangling over CIRM funds
“The resolution of this case means that some very important CIRM initiatives, such as the major facilities grants, can now get underway,” said Martin Pera, director of USC’s Center for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine and professor of cell and neurobiology at the Keck School of Medicine. “We have already been working hard on plans for a major facilities application for funding for the Broad Institute building. With the court case now over, the time frame for this application is accelerated.”
Initiated by a February 2006 gift of $25 million from the Broad Foundation, the Broad Center for Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research will be built on the USC Health Sciences Campus.
The state is expected to release the first round of bonds by July of this year. USC and Childrens Hospital Los Angeles researchers have been promised nearly $6 million in grants from CIRM for stem cell research.
“At this point, [outside groups who filed previous lawsuits] could file challenges against some action we take as a board,” said Robert Klein, author of Proposition 71 and chair of the State Stem Cell Institute Oversight Committee, in an interview with the Los Angeles Times. “But what’s critical to understand is they can’t stop the research. The future for the next decade is assured for California and for medical research.”
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The Chronicle of Higher Education mentioned USC’s $6 billion fundraising campaign. The story noted that USC had already raised $1 billion in a “quiet phase,” including the $200 million naming gift from USC Trustee and alumnus David Dornsife and wife Dana Dornsife to the USC Dornsife College.
The Guardian (U.K.) highlighted two major gifts to USC in a list of the 10 biggest philanthropic benefactors in America. The list included the $200 million naming gift from USC Trustee and alumnus David Dornsife and wife Dana Dornsife to the USC Dornsife College, and the $110 million gift from USC Trustee and USC Viterbi School alumnus John Mork and wife Julie to create the USC Mork Family Scholars Program.
The New York Times featured the USC U.S.-China Institute documentary “Assignment: China — The Week that Changed the World.” The documentary, part of a series, examines media coverage of the 1972 Nixon trip that reshaped U.S.-China relations after a quarter century of isolation and hostility. “People look back now and take it for granted that the outcome was preordained,” said the institute’s Mike Chinoy, who produced the documentary. Voice of America also featured the story.
Los Angeles Times featured the Oscar Senti-meter, a tool developed by the USC Annenberg School, Los Angeles Times and IBM that analyzes thousands of tweets about the Academy Awards nominees. The story noted that Mexican actor Demian Bechir received an enormous boost on Twitter the day of the nominations, with a total of 6,893 tweets mentioning him, a 47-fold increase from the day before. The story noted the tool uses language-recognition technology developed in collaboration with USC Viterbi School’s Signal Analysis and Interpretation Lab.
The Times of India (India) featured a three-day medical emergency training workshop organized in association with USC. At the workshop, held at GCS Medical College in India, 50 doctors and more than 100 paramedics learned how to improve emergency support systems. William Mallon of the Keck School of USC said that discussion topics included the use of portable ultrasonic devices to scan patients. “The ultrasound applications help physicians make accurate and timely decisions,” he noted. Daily News & Analysis (India) also featured the workshop.
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