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With the addition of three new collaborations, the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine now has nine partners to advance stem cell research. In a separate announcement, CIRM awarded USD$250 million in its Disease Team grants competittion.

The ICSCN held a series of meetings in Barcelona in July to coincide with the annual ISSCR meeting. Conducted over two sessions, the meetings included planning events and a Post-Doc Symposium.

Scottish Regenerative Medicine received a multi-million funding boost in April 2009, providing a major endorsement of our efforts to find new treatments for degenerative diseases.

This year’s meeting of the International Consortium of Stem Cell Networks will take place on July 8 and 9 at the Hotel Diagonal Zero in Barcelona.

Its mission is to provide a searchable, comprehensive database that includes published and validated unpublished information on all human ES cell lines as well as other pluripotent stem cell lines.

The UK National SCN has embarked upon a pilot project to provide the community with regular (two-monthly) digests of both published and granted patents in the stem cell field.