Finance committee  Yes, absolutely. When we talk about stem cells being the biggest innovation in medicine in the last 50 years, it's because stem cells actually are focused on treating the root cause of disease rather than treating conditions. We're looking at a health care system on which we spen

Finance committee  Absolutely.

Finance committee  First of all, I don't want to suggest that we haven't had commercial success. Allen Eaves leads a company called STEMCELL Technologies that 20 years ago came out of research in his lab at the BC Cancer Agency. Over the last 20 years it has been growing to the point where it's app

Finance committee  There are. We've had some good progress with Health Canada even as we've started our advocacy efforts around the strategy. Within the strategy, we were looking at streamlining some of the regulatory processes around advanced cell therapies. They were typically regulated much like

Finance committee  Good morning, I'm James Price, President and CEO of the Canadian Stem Cell Foundation and I'm joined by Dr. Allen Eaves. Dr. Eaves is one of Canada's leading hematologists. He started the first bone marrow transplant programs in western Canada, founded the Terry Fox laboratory at