20 Quotes by Zach Hall

Scientists. What will not stop this from happening is government oversight.

This is an exciting moment for the CIRM as these awards mark the first step in our scientific program of stem cell research--an accomplishment we have been able to achieve in less than one year as a state agency. The CIRM training program established today will be the most comprehensive training program to date in the field. It will provide a pipeline of highly trained basic and clinical investigators for the research that CIRM will fund in California.

This is really a historic and important occasion for us.

It's a way of being sure we are ready to move when the money comes in and get our program under way immediately,

It will be the spring of 2007 before we will be able to pursue stem cell research on the scale that the voters of Prop. 71 expect.

They were all within the University of California and it was still difficult because each has different cultures, different personalities and different rules. The fact that these four institutions have put this together I think is a wonderful signal. I'm tremendously impressed with the effort that must have gone into this.

This is indeed a day of celebration after what I would say was a long taxi down the runway.

I'm glad we're not losing them completely in California. Ed has tremendously high scientific standards, and his upbeat, 'can-do,' friendly personality is wonderful at getting people to work together on projects.

I'm delighted to see this. This is just the kind of thing we want to encourage institutes working together on stem cell research and pooling their resources.