California the Global Center for the Stem Cell Research

  Please join us on Friday when our speaker will be Kevin McCormack from the California the Global Center for the Stem Cell Research. Kevin is the communications director at the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine or CIRM, the state’s stem cell agency. The agency was created by voters when they approved Proposition 71 in 2004. It gave the agency $3 billion to fund stem cell research in California. Kevin considers himself to be the official translator for the agency, working to turn complex language about equally complex science into everyday English that anyone can understand. Before joining CIRM he spent more than 20 years working as a journalist, most of that in TV news in San Francisco. Kevin is here to tell us what they have done with the money and how it’s helped make California the global center of this research.