A Sampling of Clips for 
December 15, 2004

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Stem Cell Board Selected
San Francisco Chronicle, Dec. 15-California's top elected officeholders have settled on a single choice -- Palo Alto real estate developer Robert N. Klein -- to direct California's new stem cell enterprise. Other appointees to the Independent Citizens Oversight Committee include Edward W. Holmes, vice chancellor of UCSD Health Services and Leon Thal, chairman of the department of neurosciences at UCSD. More

Program Promotes Entrepreneurship in Mideast, North Africa
Voice of America News, Dec. 14-Entrepreneurs from the Middle East and North Africa are honing their business skills with the help of a U.S. program designed to promote the economy of the region. (Q&A with Rob Fuller, director of Entrepreneurial Programs for the Beyster Institute at UCSD.) More

The Promise of Stem Cells
San Diego Union-Tribune, Dec. 15-The study of stem cells is a young scientific field, with great potential for treating disease and injury. But stem cell biology is also replete with unanswered questions. (Refers to multiple stem cell research projects conducted by Ken Chien, Don Cleveland, Larry Goldstein, Leon Thal, Mark Tuszynski and Alberto Hayek, all scientists at UCSD.) More

UCSD Pair Contributes to Chicken's DNA Map
San Diego Union-Tribune, Dec. 15-A new study on the DNA of chicken by UCSD researchers Pavel Pevzner and Glenn Tesler has provided scientists a more lofty perspective of human evolution - one dating 310 million years. More

Wrenching Tale by an Afghan Immigrant Strikes a Chord
New York Times, Dec. 15-''The Kite Runner,'' by Khaled Hosseini, a previously unknown son of an Afghan political refugee, has captivated reading groups across the country with its rich mix of familiar morality tale and timely world history and has steadily climbed the best-seller lists, rising as high as No.5 on the paperback best-seller list of The New York Times. Hosseini earned a medical degree from UCSD. More

Biotech Vet, UCSD Official Named to Stem-Cell Panel
North County Times, Dec. 14-Five is the final tally of San Diegans appointed to the 29-member Independent Citizens Oversight Committee, which will control $3 billion in research dollars for embryonic stem-cell research. The two latest local appointees are Tina Nova, president and chief executive of Genoptix Inc.; and Leon Thal, director of the Alzheimer's Disease Research Center at UC San Diego. Ed Holmes, Vice Chancellor of UCSD Heath Sciences, is also a member of the committee. More