Leichtag Building, UCSD------ Millberry Conference Center, UCSF------ Doheny Eye Institute, USC

Dr. Phyllis Preciado is a member of the Independent Citizens' Oversight Committee (ICOC), having been appointed to that position by California Lieutenant Governor Cruz Bustamante.

Dr. Preciado is also a member of the ICOC's Site Search Sub-committee, which will be holding its next meeting between 2:00 pm and 5:00 on Thursday, February 24, 2005, in the Golden Gate Room at the Millberry Conference Center at the University of California, San Francisco, with links to audioconferencing sites at the Doheny Eye Clinic at the University of Southern California, the Leichtag Family Foundation Biomedical Research Building at the University of California, San Diego, and the Sacramento Medical Center, on V Street, in Sacramento, California.

In an exclusive Stem Cell World interview recorded today, Dr. Preciado discusses the work of the ICOC Site Search Sub-committee.

At the last meeting of the ICOC Site Search Sub-committee, on January 25, 2005, and again today, Dr. Preciado made the point that the Sub-committee should seriously consider locating the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) in California's Central Valley, perhaps in proximity to the new University of California, Merced, Medical School.

She also speaks, during the interview, about the change in criteria made during the last ICOC Site Search Sub-committee meeting to expand eligibility for siting the CIRM to any location within California, a subject previously reported on in Etopia Media Medical News Network #54.

You can listen to Dr. Phyllis Preciado's exclusive Etopia Media News Network interview by clicking here.