by rss feed | Sep 12, 2025 | News Feeds, NIH fetal tissue research, NIH research ban, stem cell politics
An NIH fetal tissue research ban is now unfolding. Human embryonic stem cell research funding may be next. Such politically-motivated actions are bad for science and our country. NIH fetal tissue research ban I’ve been concerned for months that NIH might ban...
by rss feed | Jul 3, 2025 | Chadwick Prodromos, Interviews, Kennedy stem cells, News Feeds, Prodromos Kennedy, stem cell politics
It was interesting to hear a few months ago that Dr. Chadwick Prodromos, who runs a few stem cell clinics including one in Chicago, was at a D.C. roundtable on regenerative medicine put together by HHS Secretary RFK Jr. More recently we heard that Kennedy got stem...
by rss feed | May 6, 2025 | News Feeds, stem cell politics, Tracy Hoeg, Vinay Prasad
The FDA has a new CBER Director Dr. Vinay Prasad. CBER is the FDA’s biologics branch that handles things like cell therapies and vaccines. The branch has been in near-constant upheaval this year. For a time, Scott Steele was acting CBER Director. It wasn’t...
by rss feed | Apr 17, 2025 | Florida stem cell bill, News Feeds, Right-To-Try Law, States, stem cell politics
A new Florida stem cell bill directly challenges the FDA and its CBER branch. If passed, which seems relatively likely, the Florida bill would become of state trend. A Utah stem cell law and a broader Nevada biologics law legally okay non-FDA approved biologics....
by rss feed | Apr 4, 2025 | Kennedy stem cells, News Feeds, RFK Jr. stem cells, stem cell politics
How bad could things get with RFK Jr. changing the FDA’s approach to unproven stem cells? I’ve been asking myself this for months since Kennedy’s post that mentioned stem cells on X. New developments suggest things will get much worse. Up until about...
by rss feed | Mar 16, 2025 | News Feeds, RFK Jr. stem cells, RFK regenerative medicine, stem cell politics
I had a feeling late last year that I’d frequently be writing about RFK Jr. and his impact on the FDA. However, I didn’t realize some of that would be writing for STAT News. As I mentioned a few days ago, I now have a new regular column over there. I...
