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...clinical relevance, I don’t necessarily mean clinical application,” he said. “In many areas for which stem cells have relevance, there still needs to be a lot of basic science research...
David T. Scadden, co-director of the HSCI, said that several of the chosen projects either involved embryonic stem cell research, which current federal legislation does not support, or they were picked because they did not have extensive preliminary data...
...grants were given to projects that were considered of exceptional novelty; high risk, high impact efforts that would be difficult to fund through the NIH due to either the early stage of the science or the involvement of human [embryonic stem] cells restricted by government regulations,” he said. “The NIH is an inherently conservative institution funding long term projects that have already demonstrated a substantial record of success—this is a very powerful mechanism for sustaining research, but not for enabling innovation...
...grants awarded, five involved embryonic stem cell research. Other recipients use adult stem cells or partially differentiated progenitor cells...
...There is definitely a career development facet of the grants to encourage people at the start of their careers to pursue stem cell research,” Jennings said...