1960 land gift may foreshadow a stem cell research sequel

[SCI-Nurse]

1960 land gift may foreshadow a stem cell research sequel

By Joe Panetta
December 5, 2004
San Diego Union-Tribune

When it comes to forecasting the potential of state-funded stem cell research to benefit San Diego's entire community, I find myself thinking of another time in the region's history when our citizens also used public assets for scientific endeavors. I think the following historical examples demonstrate how a community's investment in research and technology can yield tremendous unforeseen benefits.

In 1960, two stars in their respective fields, polio vaccine developer Dr. Jonas Salk and famed architect Louis Kahn, went to the San Diego City Council to ask for a gift of land on the Torrey Pines Mesa. Their vision, supported by child health advocates at the March of Dimes, was a research center overlooking the Pacific that would be a beacon for scientists around the world. In June of that year, a special referendum was held where San Diegans voted to honor their request, and as a result, the city donated a 27-acre plot of land overlooking the Pacific.

The rest of this editorial (http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20041205/news_mz1e5panetta.html)

(KLD)

[Lindox]

This is a wonderful write up.
And it is a lovely area and such an impressive group of buildings on this donated land.

I know Silicon Valley would love to have the
Center in their beautiful surroundings..but
I vote for San Diego too.

Imagine we may be living in the time of one more major historical event in medicine..exciting to say the least.

And UCSD is one of my favorite horses in the University race of discoveries.

KLD why did the Nursing Associations oppose Prop. 71? Just curious. I read all the oppositions..but most just listed various groups without the groups themselves giving their viewpoints.

" I hate war only as a soldier who has lived it can.
Only as one who has seen it's brutality, it's futility, it's stupidness." Dwight D. Eisenhower

[SCI-Nurse]

There are many nursing organizations, and not all opposed Prop 71. The California Nurses Association (of which I am NOT a member) represents less than 30% of RNs in the state, and they did oppose it. Here is their position statement:

California Nurses Association Opposes Prop. 71 (http://www.calnurses.org/?Action=Content&id=80)

(KLD)

[Lindox]

Originally posted by SCI-Nurse:

There are many nursing organizations, and not all opposed Prop 71. The California Nurses Association (of which I am NOT a member) represents less than 30% of RNs in the state, and they did oppose it. Here is their position statement:

http://www.calnurses.org/?Action=Content&id=80

(KLD)

Thanks.
I didn't look this up..my bad.
Just read the collaborative statements.

I figured if any group lent their signatures to the various write ups it meant they all thought the same way.

Learned a good lesson here.

" I hate war only as a soldier who has lived it can.
Only as one who has seen it's brutality, it's futility, it's stupidness." Dwight D. Eisenhower

[jimnms]

Originally posted by SCI-Nurse:

The California Nurses Association (of which I am NOT a member) represents less than 30% of RNs in the state, and they did oppose it. Here is their position statement:

California Nurses Association Opposes Prop. 71 (http://www.calnurses.org/?Action=Content&id=80)

(KLD)

This is all I've got to say to the California Nurses Association. http://www.pbase.com/jchaney/image/37094210.jpg

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Learn from the mistakes of others, you won't live long enough to make all of them yourself.

[Wise Young]

KLD, thanks for posting this. We should thank the citizens of San Diego for their generous donation. The donation converted San Diego from a sleepy Navy town to probably the most envied center for biotechnology in the world. In the past decade, San Diego has garnered more NIH funding than any other city in the United States, including New York. It is a hotbed of science today.

Likewise, I think that the $3 billion investment in stem cell research by the citizens of California will make it the place to do stem cell research. I am grateful to the citizens of California for their generous support of stem cell research. I do not understand the CNA opposition to the therapeutics industry making money. I don't remember anybody complaining when the universities of California formed the backbone of Silicon Valley and became the birthplace of the electronics and the dot com industry. The state stands to benefit enormously from Proposition 71. It is no accident that many of the other states are now scrambling to match the commitment to stem cell research by California.

Wise.