Director to visit Europe, Mideast -By Tom Henderson
Randal Charlton, executive director of TechTown, will hit the ground running this week as he tries to lure stem cell researchers and companies from around the world to establish a presence in the Stem Cell Commercialization Center that Wayne County Executive Robert Ficano announced in his State of the County speech last Thursday.
The center, which will be housed in TechTown’s Tech One building on Burroughs Street just north of Wayne State University, is an outgrowth of the passage of Proposal 2 by Michigan voters last November. The proposal allows embryonic stem cell research in the state.
President Barack Obama’s efforts to end former President George W. Bush’s restrictions on the number of stem cell lines could be supported by increased federal funding through the economic stimulus package.
