NewsBlog: Stumping for stem cells Posted by Catherine Magill [Entry posted at 14th June 2006 01:35 AM GMT] The California stem cell policy and advocacy juggernaut was in full steam this weekend at Stanford University. The two-day Stem Cell Policy and Advocacy Summit II: Empowering the Pro-Cures Coalition offered a banquet of the usual servings, including scientific updates, discussions of ethics and legal issues, and how-to primers on grassroots... Click to continue Comment on this blog

International Symposium on Stem Cell Collaboration, San Francisco Catherine Magill Location: USA Who am I? Catherine Magill, a freelance science and medical writer and consultant, received her PhD in 1990 from Stanford University where her research focused on the molecular organization of the postsynaptic apparatus of the neuromuscular junction. She received a Life Sciences Research Foundation fellowship to do postdoctoral research on the molecular embryology of the African clawed toad, Xenopus laevis, at Harvard University. She served a number of positions in industry for more than a decade, including director of pharmacology and cell biology at Celera. Previous months >>   June 2006 >>   February 2006