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Volume 351:1711-1713 October 21, 2004 Number 17
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Bankrolling Stem-Cell Research with California Dollars
Keith R. Yamamoto, Ph.D.

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"The only possible source for adequate support of our medical schools and medical research is the taxing power of the Federal Government. Such a program must assure complete freedom for the institutions and the individual scientists in developing and conducting their research work." These powerful assertions of responsibility — public funding of research at the national level and scientific prioritization by independent investigators — from U.S. Surgeon General Thomas Parran in 1945 presaged the peer-review, extramural grant-in-aid program that was established the following year within the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Of the 59 Nobel Prizes in Physiology or Medicine . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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From the School of Medicine and the Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, University of California, San Francisco.



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