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On April 16, the Federal Minister of Education and Research, Prof. Dr. Annette Schavan, and Dr. Jürgen Rüttgers, Prime Minister of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, announced plans for the funding of a new reference center for stem cell research in Muenster.

Read the full Press Release here.

The following articles include an overview about clinics providing unproven stem cell therapies worldwide. All articles originate from Nature.com.

• Clinic peddels false hope for cure
• Stem cell researchers face down stem cell tourism
• The rocky road to regulation
• Offshore stem cell treatments

 

The decision has been made:

Three junior scientist will be supported for five years by the Stem Cell Network NRW to set up their own research group. Joachim Goethert, Takashi Hiiragi and Wolfgang Wagner will be promoted with up to 250.000 Euros per year for their work at the University of Duisburg-Essen, at the Max Planck Institute for molecular Biomedicine and the RWTH Aachen.

Providing this funding for another 5 years the Ministry for Innovation of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia strengthen its support for the Stem Cell Network. For further information please read the press release (in German language only).

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Stem Cell Network North Rhine-Westphalia

Since February 2005, Stem Cell Network NRW has a new chairman of the managing board and a new managing director.

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NRW Minister of Science Hannelore Kraft: Worldwide Ban on Reproductive Cloning Must Be Top Priority – the First Meeting of the Advisory Council of the Stem Cell Network North Rhine-Westphalia (in German language only).

Press Report

The Ministry of Science and Research for North Rhine-Westphalia
NRW Minister of Science Hannelore Kraft inaugurates the First International Meeting of the Stem Cell Network North Rhine-Westphalia (in German Language only).

Press Report

The Ministry of Science and Research for North Rhine-Westphalia

The Minister of Education Gabriele Behler inaugurates the Stem Cell Network North Rhine-Westphalia (in German language only).

Press Report