From the Sacramento Bee: An initiative seeking to fund immunology and immunotherapy research through an $8.4 billion state bond [has] qualified... for the November ballot... The Trump administration’s cuts and freezes to thousands of medical research grants last year prompted Californians to develop the statewide funding proposal... The measure directs half of the bond proceeds to a single nonprofit immunology research institute affiliated with the University of California. The initiative’s principal financial backer, billionaire philanthropist and medical inventor Gary Michelson, pledged $120 million in 2024 to launch the California Institute for Immunology and Immunotherapy, a UCLA-affiliated research center expected to open in 2027...
Full story at https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article316259099.html.
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