Dr. Evan Snyder, director of stem cell research at the Burnham Institute in La Jolla, Calif., said WARF "hindered the field" to enhance its proprietary position, making it expensive to obtain cell lines and for scientists to collaborate.
Trounson, one of Australia's premier stem cell researchers and director of stem cell research at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, joins an international roster of big-name researchers who have been lured by California's $3 billion stem cell research program, launched in 2004.
George Daley, a prominent Harvard scientist and the director of stem-cell transplants at Boston's Children's Hospital, told me, "My network of colleagues around the globe were e-mailing each other saying, 'Hey, what's going on?
Dr. Leonard Zon, director of the stem cell program at Children's Hospital Boston, said the stem cell bank would be "a fantastic way of distributing the stem cell lines to the world," and would be cost-effective because it would provide one location where stem cell lines could be monitored to "make sure they have the correct number of chromosomes and that they're growing correctly".
Daley, the director of the stem cell transplantation program at Children's Hospital Boston, said his team had used private financing to create 15 stem cell lines from poor-quality embryos that clinicians had told couples they should discard.
Daley, director of the stem cell transplantation program at Children's Hospital Boston.
"I'm disappointed," said Dr. Irving Weissman, the director of the Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine Institute at Stanford.
"I'm very enthusiastic," said Dr. Leonard Zon, director of the stem cell program at Harvard's Children's Hospital.
"It really is amazing," said Dr. Leonard Zon, director of the stem cell program at Children's Hospital Boston at Harvard Medical School.
Daley, director of the stem cell transplantation program at Children's Hospital Boston, referring to food given to cells.
