Official Blog of The New York Stem Cell Foundation
Susan L. Solomon, NYSCF’s CEO, was invited to the White House on March 9th to attend President Barack Obama’s historic signing of an executive order which will overturn his predecessor’s stem cell research prohibitions.
While there, Susan was honored to meet House Speaker Nancy Pelosi:
Speaker Pelosi and Susan Solomon
The New York Stem Cell Foundation (NYSCF) today applauded President Barack Obama’s executive order overturning a Bush Administration policy that, for eight years, restricted the use of federal funds for human embryonic stem cell research to a limited number of stem cell lines created before August 9, 2001. While lauding this bold and important policy decision as an important first step, the organization noted that President Obama’s executive order does not permit federal funding for derivation of new human embryonic stem cell lines.
Read the full NYSCF press release »
Read Susan L. Solomon’s article in The Huffington Post »
Also, Susan L. Solomon, NYSCF’s CEO, is quoted in an article on guardian.co.uk. Read »
Check out this video Bob Costas made for NYSCF