Founding Members

Lucy Fisher

Former Vice Chairman of the Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group at Sony Pictures. Producer of Stuart Little 2.

Douglas Wick

Academy Award Wining Producer of Gladiator, Producer of Girl Interrupted and Stuart Little.

Janet Zucker

Producer of Rat Race, First Knight.

Jerry Zucker

Director of Ghost, Airplaine, Rat Race.

All four parents have children with juvenille diabetes, a disease for which stem cells show therapeutic promise.

Scientific Advisory Board Members

Dr. Paul Berg

Director emeritus of the Beckman Center for Molecular & Genetic Medicine, Stanford University. 1980 Nobel Laureate in chemistry

Dr. Richard Klausner

Former Director National Cancer Institute. Advisor to the President and Naitonal Academy of Science.

Dr. Irving Weissman

Chairman committee on Cloning, National Academy of Sciences. Karel and Avice Beekhuis Professor of Cancer Biology, Stanford University.

Dr. David Anderson

Professor of Biology and Howard Hughes Medical Institue investigator at the California Institute of Technology.

Dr. David Baltimore

President California Institute of Technology. Noble Laureate at age 37 in Virology. Former President of Rockefeller University.

Dr. Thomas R Cech

Nobel Laureate. Distinguished Professor, University of Colorado.