Local scholar appointed to stem cell committee...

Local scholar appointed to stem cell committee

Oswald Steward, director of UC Irvine’s Reeve-Irvine Research

Center for Spinal Cord Injury, has been named to the citizens’

committee that will oversee the California Institute for Regenerative

Medicine.

The institute was created by the passage of Proposition 71 to

administer funds for stem cell research projects.

Steward, 56, of Laguna Beach, is also a professor of anatomy and

neurobiology at UCI. He is known for research on how genes influence

nerve cell growth and function and other nerve research, and he has

chaired a National Institutes of Health neurobiology review group and

held other leadership posts in the medical field.