Marie CseteThe chief scientific officer at California's stem-cell agency has announced that she will step down from her position in a little over a month.Marie Csete, who had been at the San Francisco-based California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) for slightly more than a year, has so far offered no specific reasons for leaving the agency, which was created to fund stem-cell research through Proposition 71. Csete was highly respected in the medical-science community, and news of her
Tempest in a petri dishIt's been a tough week in the news for California's San Francisco-based stem-cell research agency.Last week, it was revealed that the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) -- created to fund stem-cell research through Proposition 71, the 2004 state ballot initiative -- was losing its highly respected chief scientist, Marie Csete. Since then, a state watchdog agency has suggested a number of drastic changes to how CIRM operates. And to top it off, Csete, in
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