{"id":1185,"date":"2011-03-09T13:32:23","date_gmt":"2011-03-09T13:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/spoonful\/2011\/03\/cirm-selects-alphamed-to-publish-open-access-journal.html"},"modified":"2011-03-09T13:32:23","modified_gmt":"2011-03-09T13:32:23","slug":"cirm_selects_alphamed_to_publi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/spoonful\/2011\/03\/cirm_selects_alphamed_to_publi.html","title":{"rendered":"CIRM selects AlphaMed to publish open access journal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"cirm269.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/spoonful\/files\/cirm269.jpg\" width=\"269\" height=\"100\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"10 px\">It is now official: the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine is soon to be in the publishing business.<\/p>\n<p>The $3 billion state stem cell funding agency <a href=\"https:\/\/californiastemcellreport.blogspot.com\/2011\/03\/california-stem-cell-agency-ventures.html \">announced yesterday<\/a> that it will partner with AlphaMed Press, the publisher of <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stemcells.com\/view\/0\/index.html\">Stem Cells<\/a><\/em>, to create an online open access journal called <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/doc\/50319820\/AlphaMed-Press-IPAD-Demo\">Stem Cells Translational Medicine<\/a><\/em>. The journal is to focus on translating stem cell discoveries to clinical applications. The team selected <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfubmc.edu\/faculty\/Atala-Anthony-J.htm\">Tony Atala<\/a>, director of the Wake Forest Institute of Regenerative Medicine, to be chief editor.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"caps\">CIRM<\/span> is offering up $600,000 to jumpstart the journal. The publication is a first for a US state and is one of a handful that are publically funded, including the US National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences\u2019 <em><a href=\"https:\/\/ehp03.niehs.nih.gov\/home.action\">Environmental Health Perspectives<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>To read more about the launch of the journal and its implications, read <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/nm\/journal\/v17\/n3\/full\/nm0311-236a.html \">our story<\/a> in this month\u2019s issue of <em>Nature Medicine<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is now official: the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine is soon to be in the publishing business.&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/spoonful\/2011\/03\/cirm_selects_alphamed_to_publi.html#wpn-more-1185\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/spoonful\/2011\/03\/cirm_selects_alphamed_to_publi.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stem-cellscloning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/spoonful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/spoonful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/spoonful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/spoonful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/127"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/spoonful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/spoonful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/spoonful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/spoonful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/spoonful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}