MCNERNEY TO PROMOTE STEM CELL RESEARCH
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MCNERNEY TO PROMOTE STEM CELL RESEARCH
Advocate, expert, and victim to join challenger at press conference
DUBLIN, CA – Don Reed of Californians for Cures, Dr. Colleen Hogan of the San Ramon Valley Primary Care Medical Group, and Danville resident Pam Nett will join Jerry McNerney, Democratic nominee for California's 11th Congressional District, at a Tuesday morning press conference.
Reed, whose son was paralyzed in a football injury, successfully lobbied for the first state-funded embryonic stem cell research program in the country. Nett's daughter has cystic fibrosis. Hogan and McNerney support life-saving federal research, whereas Rep. Richard Pombo and President George Bush have worked to disallow such funding, which medical researchers believe has the potential to cure spinal cord injuries and diseases such as cancer, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, diabetes, and epilepsy. Voters in the 11th Congressional District strongly supported Proposition 71, the Stem Cell Research and Cures Initiative.
WHO: Don Reed, Californians for Cures
Pam Nett, Danville resident and mother of a four-year old with cystic fibrosis
Jerry McNerney, Democratic nominee for California's 11th Congressional District
Dr. Colleen Hogan, San Ramon Valley Primary Care Medical Group
WHAT: Stem Cell Research Press Conference
WHERE: Bollinger Canyon Road Playground
Corner of Talavera Drive and Bollinger Canyon Road
Two blocks west of Highway 680
San Ramon, CA
WHEN: Tuesday, October 24, 2006
10:30 a.m.
MCNERNEY TO PROMOTE STEM CELL RESEARCH
Advocate, expert, and victim to join challenger at press conference
DUBLIN, CA – Don Reed of Californians for Cures, Dr. Colleen Hogan of the San Ramon Valley Primary Care Medical Group, and Danville resident Pam Nett will join Jerry McNerney, Democratic nominee for California's 11th Congressional District, at a Tuesday morning press conference.
Reed, whose son was paralyzed in a football injury, successfully lobbied for the first state-funded embryonic stem cell research program in the country. Nett's daughter has cystic fibrosis. Hogan and McNerney support life-saving federal research, whereas Rep. Richard Pombo and President George Bush have worked to disallow such funding, which medical researchers believe has the potential to cure spinal cord injuries and diseases such as cancer, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, diabetes, and epilepsy. Voters in the 11th Congressional District strongly supported Proposition 71, the Stem Cell Research and Cures Initiative.
WHO: Don Reed, Californians for Cures
Pam Nett, Danville resident and mother of a four-year old with cystic fibrosis
Jerry McNerney, Democratic nominee for California's 11th Congressional District
Dr. Colleen Hogan, San Ramon Valley Primary Care Medical Group
WHAT: Stem Cell Research Press Conference
WHERE: Bollinger Canyon Road Playground
Corner of Talavera Drive and Bollinger Canyon Road
Two blocks west of Highway 680
San Ramon, CA
WHEN: Tuesday, October 24, 2006
10:30 a.m.
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Jerry McNerney is a nationally recognized expert in wind engineering and renewable energy, with a PhD in mathematics. During his career in wind energy, McNerney's work contributed to saving the equivalent of approximately 30 million barrels of oil, or 8.3 million tons of carbon dioxide – the main greenhouse gas – as well as other harmful pollutants. The Democratic nominee for California's 11th Congressional District, Jerry has been married for 29 years and has three grown children. (source)
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