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  • A law named after him (the Roman Reed Spinal Cord Injury Research Act of 1999) provided initial funding for the treatment Geron is taking to human trials.

    Don C. Reed: To Steal a Dream: Anger Builds at World Stem Cell Summit Don C. Reed 2010

  • It's a trial being run by a company called Geron (ph), so it has not used federal funding.

    CNN Transcript Dec 2, 2009 2009

  • Other companies working on stem cells include Britain's ReNeuron, which is testing foetal cells in stroke patients, and Geron, which is pioneering the world's first trial using embryonic stem cells in patients with spinal cord injuries.

    Reuters: Press Release 2011

  • Other companies working on stem cells include Britain's ReNeuron, which is testing foetal cells in stroke patients, and Geron, which is pioneering the world's first trial using embryonic stem cells in patients with spinal cord injuries.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

  • Other companies working on stem cells include Britain's ReNeuron, which is testing foetal cells in stroke patients, and Geron, which is pioneering the world's first trial using embryonic stem cells in patients with spinal cord injuries.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

  • Geron, which is based in Menlo Park, Calif., helped finance the isolation of the first human embryonic stem cells at the University of Wisconsin in the late 1990s, so it holds certain patent rights on use of the cells.

    NYT > Home Page 2010

  • Geron, which is based in Menlo Park, Calif., said that it had identified up to seven medical centers for the trial but that those sites must first get permission from their own internal review boards to participate.

    Democracy for New Hampshire - Growing the grassroots in New Hampshire's political landscape 2009

  • Geron, which is based in Menlo Park, California, said it had identified up to seven medical centres or the trial but that those sites most first get permission from their own internal review boards to participate.

    The Hindu - Front Page 2009

  • Geron, which is based in Menlo Park, California, said that it had identified up to seven medical centers for the trial but that those sites must first get permission from their own internal review boards to participate.

    NYT > Global Home 2009

  • Despite continued grumbling from groups opposed to embryo research -- the Bush administration is reviewing the guidelines -- the NIH decision turned investors 'attention to companies such as Geron, which has worked for years to develop biotechnology to harvest human embryonic stem cells, grow them in sufficient quantities, urge their differentiation into particular cells from skin to heart to nerve, and make them work in the body.

    Full Stem Ahead 2007

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