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UCLA Receives $20 Million Gift for Stem Cell Research

I post this sheepishly after every other outlet in the whole wide world wrote about it yesterday and earlier today. UCLA got a huge gift, $20 million, from billionaire philanthropists Eli and Edythe Broad for the school’s stem cell research center. The LA Times, lucky dogs, had the exclusive on Monday: This is Broad’s second […]

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I post this sheepishly after every other outlet in the whole wide world wrote about it yesterday and earlier today. UCLA got a huge gift, $20 million, from billionaire philanthropists Eli and Edythe Broad for the school's stem cell research center. The LA Times, lucky dogs, had the exclusive on Monday:

This is Broad's second major gift involving stem cell research, having already donated $25 million to USC in February 2006 to build a stem cell research building on its medical school campus.

Embryonic stem cell research has taken off in California following voter approval in 2004 of Proposition 71, an initiative that will allocate $3 billion to search for treatments for Parkinson's disease, diabetes and other debilitating and fatal conditions.

UCLA orchestrated a big to-do to announce the donation, with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa in attendence.