SUMC in the News (10/05/05)
Print media coverage
Wall Street Journal, 10/05/05
Correction (No online version available)
A recent editorial on stem cells stated that Stanford's stem cell institute was
created with $120 million in funding. In fact, the Institute for Stem Cell
Biology and Regenerative Medicine began with a $12 million donation and has
raised nearly $29 million since.
Associated Press, 10/05/05
Cal Tech professor is co-winner of 2005 Nobel chemistry prize
California Institute of Technology professor Robert H. Grubbs is a co-winner of
the 2005 Nobel Prize for chemistry. He and two French scientists received the
prize for discoveries that let industry produce drugs and advanced plastics more
efficiently and with less hazardous waste. This article mentions that Grubbs was
a National Institutes of Health fellow at Stanford in 1968-69.
Indianapolis Star Tribune, 10/05/05
Schools round-up
Seventh- and eighth-grade students at an Indianapolis school have raised more
than $3,000 for epidermolysis bullosa research at Stanford. One of their
classmates is afflicted with the rare genetic disorder.
Broadcast media coverage
WBEZ-FM (Chicago), 10/04/05
Paul Wise, the Richard E. Behrman Professor in Child Health and Society, was
featured in this NPR segment on the U.S.'s infant mortality rate.
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