SUMC in the News (12/05/08)
Print media coverage
San Jose/Silicon Valley Business Journal, 12/05/08
Stanford builds up stem cell research
The School of Medicine recently broke ground on the Lokey Stem Cell Research Building, which will become the nation's largest stem cell research facility. This article, which also appears in the San Francisco Business Times, discusses the future of stem cell research at Stanford and features Irving Weissman, the Virginia & D.K. Ludwig Professor for Clinical Investigation for Cancer Research and director of the Stanford Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine Institute; Renee Reijo Pera, professor of obstetrics and gynecology and director of the Center for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research and Education; Marius Wernig, assistant professor of pathology; and project manager Chris Shay. Reijo Pera and Wernig are also photographed here.
San Francisco Business Times, 12/05/08
Costs balloon to $3.5B for Stanford Hospital projects
This article discusses the medical center's expansion project. Shelley Hebert, executive director for public affairs at Stanford Hospital & Clinics, and Mark Tortorich, vice president of planning, design and construction for SHC and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, are quoted. The expansion project is also mentioned in a San Jose Mercury News piece.
Internet/ New media coverage
USNews.com, 12/04/08
Women unhappy with disposal options after infertility treatment
A new survey suggests that many American women who have finished fertility treatments aren't happy with the usual options available for the disposal of unused embryos created with their eggs. Lynn Westphal, associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology, provides comment in this HealthDay News article.
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