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• Academic Institutions Won Most of CIRM’s $1.3B in Awards over Past Five Years
  Focus of California’s stem cell agency has been on setting up a foundation for leadership.
  
• California Stem Cell Agency’s Road to Success for Next Five Years Will Have to Run Through the Clinic
  As CIRM considers direction and required financing going forward, it will have to show progress to win support.
  
• Republican Candidates Vouch for Agency Spending Cuts and hESC Restrictions
  While details differ, Romney, Gingrich, Santorum, and Paul all want to slice FDA and NIH’s budget.
  
• This Month Last Year: Shire and Thermo Fisher’s Acquisitions and Geron’s hESC Plans
  While Geron’s good news in May 2011 didn’t last long, Shire and Thermo hope their moves strengthen their businesses.
  
• Academia Increasingly Going Beyond Basic Research by Setting Up Translational Med Centers
  Facilities are a response to industry’s retreat from in-house R&D and deepening valley of death.
  
• NIH Taps 25 Schools to Receive Top Dollars
  Did your alma mater make the list?
  
• Filling the Drug Translation Gap
  Translation-focused disease foundations could help bridge the gap between academia and industry.
  
• SBIR Thinks Smaller
  New rules taking effect on January 28 aim to draw investor-owned smaller biopharmas to the federal grant program and STTR, its companion.
  
• Bioprinting in 3D
  Scientists are working on extending the principles of 3D printing to constructing organs and tissues using bioprinters.
  
• Funding Squeeze Traps Young Researchers
  Postdocs look beyond NIH funding as, despite policy changes, the percentage and age of first-time grant winners stay steady.
  
• 20 Grants for Young Researchers
  Looking for funding? Here are some places to start.
  
• GEN Hall of Shame
  Meet the Congressional enemies of research funding.
  
• Top 20 Grant-Giving Disease Foundations
  These generous nonprofits help keep research alive.
  
• 10 Life Science-Loving Charitable Funds and Foundations
  These organizations know when to give a little.
  
• Geron’s Setback with Testing Its hESC Therapy in Humans Points to FDA’s Continued Cautionary Stance
  Data from animal studies prompted the clinical hold, which highlights the various kinks yet to be worked out.
  
• Study Finds a Friend at NIH but Will Congress Share the Love?
  Paper in NEJM tries to make case for boosting federal research funding amid House leaders’ pursuit of spending cuts.
  
• Academic Organizations Try to Step Up Their R&D Game
  Sector has work cut out for it as ARRA has dried up and gov’t as well as industry cut budgets.
  
• Prospect of Court Appeals and Congressional Bill Hold the Cards for hESC Research
  Case seeks to prevent the use of federal dollars, while Washington’s conservative bent is cause for concern.
  
• Where Does Geron’s Exit from Embryonic Stem Cells Leave the Field?
  Given that the firm with the most money has just quit, questions about how to succeed are rampant.
  
• New Life for Embryonic Stem Cells
  Positive results from new studies show that ESCs still hold much potential for regenerative medicine.