CIRM grants $42m to Sangamo and stem cell researchers

The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) gave out $42 million in grants designed to recruit stem cell researchers to the state and back human clinical trials, including a Phase I trial for Sangamo BioSciences's beta-thalassemia therapy.

The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) gave out $42 million in grants designed to recruit stem cell researchers to the state and back human clinical trials, including a Phase I trial for Sangamo BioSciences's beta-thalassemia therapy.

Richmond, California-based Sangamo won a four-year, $6.37 million grant under CIRM's Strategic Partnership program to evaluate the company's zinc finger nuclease (ZFN) gene-editing technology in hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) transplants...

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