The Stem Cellar » Randy Mills

Growing up I loved watching old cowboy movies. Invariably the hero, even though mortally wounded, would manage to save the day and rescue the heroine and/or the town. Now it seems some stem cells...

https://blog.cirm.ca.gov/2017/11/17/stories-that-caught-our-eye-how-dying-cells-could-help-save-lives-could-modified-blood-stem-cells-reverse-diabetes-and-fda-has-good-news-for-patients-bad-news-for-rogue-clinics/

There’s nothing more flattering than to get an invitation, out of the blue, from someone you respect, and be told that they are interested in learning about the way you work, to see if it can h...

https://blog.cirm.ca.gov/2017/07/17/cirm-nih-a-dynamic-duo-to-advance-stem-cell-therapies/

Randy, as regular readers of this blog know, is, or rather was, the President and CEO of CIRM. James Harrison is less well known to the outside world but his imprint on CIRM, as our General Couns...

https://blog.cirm.ca.gov/2017/07/03/emotions-and-gratitude-at-changing-of-the-guard-at-stem-cell-agency/

Some news releases are fun to write. Some less so. The one that CIRM posted today definitely falls into that latter group. It announced that CIRM’s President and CEO, Randy Mills, is leaving us...

https://blog.cirm.ca.gov/2017/05/02/cirms-randy-mills-leaving-stem-cell-agency-to-take-on-new-challenge/

As a state agency we focus most of our efforts and nearly all our money on California. That’s what we were set up to do. But that doesn’t mean we don’t also look outside the borders of Cali...

https://blog.cirm.ca.gov/2017/02/23/partnering-with-the-best-to-help-find-cures-for-rare-diseases/

  It’s not an easy thing to bring an entire Board of Directors to tears, but four extraordinary people and their families managed to do just that at the last CIRM Board meeting of 2016. The fo...

https://blog.cirm.ca.gov/2016/12/28/stem-cell-heroes-patients-who-had-life-saving-life-changing-treatments-inspire-cirm-board/

It’s traditional to end the year with a look back at what you hoped to accomplish and an assessment of what you did. By that standard 2016 has been a pretty good year for us at CIRM. Yesterday ...

https://blog.cirm.ca.gov/2016/12/14/californias-stem-cell-agency-rounds-up-the-year-with-two-more-big-hits/

A year ago the CIRM Board unanimously approved a new Strategic Plan for the stem cell agency. In the plan are some rather ambitious goals, including funding ten new clinical trials in 2016. For m...

https://blog.cirm.ca.gov/2016/11/17/stem-cell-agency-funds-clinical-trials-in-three-life-threatening-conditions/

When baseball players are trying to improve their hitting they’ll use a pitching machine to help them fine tune their stroke. Having a device that delivers a ball at a consistent speed can help...

https://blog.cirm.ca.gov/2016/10/18/creating-a-pitching-machine-to-speed-up-our-delivery-of-stem-cell-treatments-to-patients/

If you have never heard of cystinosis you should consider yourself fortunate. It’s a rare condition caused by an inherited genetic mutation. It hits early and it hits hard. Children with cystin...

https://blog.cirm.ca.gov/2016/09/22/funding-stem-cell-research-targeting-a-rare-and-life-threatening-disease-in-children/