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California Institute of Regenerative Medicine and Cancer Research: A promise broken?

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Approximately 21 years ago, I had the privilege of working and helping to pass Proposition 71, which authorized $3 billion dollars in state bonds to fund stem cell research in California. 

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Stephen J. Forman, MD
Director, Hematologic Malignancies Research Institute, Professor, Department of Hematology & Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation, Director, T Cell Therapeutics Research Laboratory, Co-director, Hematologic Malignancies Program, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center; Professor, Department of Medical Oncology & Therapeutics Research, City of Hope
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