Stony Brook University President Shirley Strum Kenny has called it a “brilliant” move.
Gordon Keller, a stem cell researcher at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in Manhattan, said it’s already spurred an e-mail from a California colleague, asking if he’d like to head west.
California’s Proposition 71, which promises a windfall for human embryonic stem cell research and a way around federal funding restrictions, has earned praise throughout New York’s research community.