Pledge to Act


SOSCA 2008 Speakers

Grant Albrecht , Advocate

Steve Allen , Partner, SalientPoint, LLC

Mark Burton , Campaign Director for the Michigan Stem Cell Ballot Question Committee

Amy Comstock Rick , CEO, Parkinson's Action Network; President, Coalition for the Advancement of Medical Research

Amy Daly , Co-Executive Director, Americans for Cures Foundation

Jeannie Fontana , MD, PhD, Advocate, ICOC Board Member

Michael J. Fox , (via video) Actor & Founder, Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research

Brad Kemp , Executive Director of the Kansas Coalition for Lifesaving Cures

Robert N. Klein , Co-author and Chairman, California's Proposition 71 and Chairman, Independent Citizens Oversight Committee (ICOC), California Institute of Regenerative Medicine (CIRM)

Arnold Kriegstein, MD, PhD, Director of the UCSF Institute for Regeneration Medicine

Jay Levy , MD, Professor in the Department of Medicine and Research Associate at the Cancer Research Institute, UCSF and Director of the Laboratory for Tumor and AIDS Virus Research UCSF

Paul Mandabach , Partner, Winner & Mandabach Campaigns

Richard Martin , Former Campaign Manager for Senator Claire McCaskill

Richard Maullin , Founding Partner, Fairbank, Maslin, Maullin & Associates

Constance McKee , Co-Executive Director, Americans for Cures Foundation

Don Reed , Advocate and Sponsor of the Roman Reed Spinal Cord Injury Research Act

Brock Reeve , Director, Harvard Stem Cell Institute, and brother of Christopher Reeve

Renee Reijo Pera , MD, PhD, Stanford Professor and Director, Center for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research and Education

Tricia Riccio , Advocate

Donn Rubin , Chairman of the Missouri Coalition for Lifesaving Cures

Bernard Siegel , Founder & Executive Director, Genetics Policy Institute

Carlana Stone , Advocate, Founder of "The Courage Community"

Alan Trounson , PhD, President, CIRM

Siri Vaeth-Dunn , Advocate and mother of daughter with cystic fibrosis