Californians Top List of Stem Cell Honorees

Californians dominated the list of those to be honored at the World Stem Cell Summit coming up in San
Diego this December.

They include fellow blogger Paul
Knoepfler, a stem cell scientist at UC Davis, and Roman Reed, the San Francisco Bay Area stem cell activist and son of another stem cell advocate, Don Reed. Both are among the 2013 Stem Cell Action Award honorees for this
year.

Others include Denny Sanford, a
philanthropist whose name now adorns the Sanford-Burnham Institute in
La Jolla, and Malin Burnham, who is also linked to the institute.
Also being honored is Mary Ann Liebert, whose firm publishes
peer-reviewed journals in science and biomedical research.

Malin is a San Diego businessman who
joined with an anonymous donor in 1996 to contribute $10 million to
the La Jolla Cancer Foundation. It was renamed to reflect that
contribution. In 2010, Sanford pledged $50 million to the
organization, and it was renamed again.