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Stem cells: The impatient advocate

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Bob Klein founded the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, the biggest state-run research project in US history. What legacy will he leave behind?

James Harrison had just stepped out to grab a sandwich when his mobile phone rang. Bob Klein, chairman of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM), was on the line telling Harrison, the agency's legal counsel, to skip lunch and come back to the office right away. It was 23 August, and a district court judge in Washington DC had just issued an injunction barring the use of federal grant money for human embryonic stem-cell research. At that instant, CIRM became the world's largest funder of such research, and needed to issue a public statement.

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Dolgin, E. Stem cells: The impatient advocate. Nature 468, 620–623 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/468620a

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