Volume 5, Number 33 - November 1, 2010

In this issue: 

• $6.3 million from California Institute for Regenerative Medicine will support innovative stem cell research
• Chinese herbal stroke medicine may promote blood vessel growth
• Walk with The Home Team
• City of Hope honors influential laboratory and clinical research leaders
• November offers special sessions for caregivers
• Inaugural distinguished seminar features Nobel laureate
• Second-generation staffer leads team of more than two dozen for upcoming walk
• New HCT clinical director aims to keep staff thriving 

 
A Nobel cause
 
From left, Robert Whitson, Ph.D., David Baltimore, Ph.D., and Richard Jove, Ph.D., convene after Baltimore’s recent talk at Argyros Auditorium. Baltimore, the Robert A. Millikan Professor of Biology at Caltech and corecipient of the 1975 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, delivered the inaugural lecture in the Beckman Research Institute Distinguished Seminar Series on Sept. 17. Baltimore discussed the relationship of microRNA, also called miRNA, to inflammation and cancer. (Photo by Darrin S. Joy)