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Alan Trounson is the president of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) in the United States. CIRM was established in 2004 after Californian voters passed Proposition 71, which allocated $3 billion in bond sales to fund stem cell research. Alan Trounson has played a significant role in establishing CIRM as a world-renowned center for stem cell research. In an interview with Patt Morrison, he discusses some of the current projects and developments at CIRM.