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Published online 17 December 2008 | Nature 456, 851 (2008) | doi:10.1038/456851a
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Salary for CIRM head despite deficit
Outcry as stem-cell agency puts chairman on the payroll.
The board of California's state stem-cell agency has voted to pay its chairman a salary, even as the state plunges deeper into financial crisis.
Robert Klein, architect of the ballot initiative that led to the creation of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM), is a real-estate developer who has chaired CIRM's board without pay since the agency was conceived in 2004.
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