The HD View with Kevin McCormack from CIRM

Tonight our incredible special guest is Kevin McCormack, the communications director at CIRM, California’s stem cell institute. Kevin is also a dear friend of Help4HD and was a featured keynote speaker at our first symposium in 2014. He considers himself to be the official translator for the agency, working to turn complex language about equally complex science into everyday English that anyone, including Kevin, can understand. Before joining the agency he spent more than 20 years working as a journalist, most of that in TV news in San Francisco, California. There is a new leader at CIRM, President and CEO Randy Mills and a new strategic plan. The topic of tonight’s show is CIRM’s new Strategic Plan which aims to engage the patient advocate community to increase the number of clinical trials CIRM funds, to help recruit patients for those clinical trials and to help make changes in the way the FDA works in order to speed up the ability to move promising research into clinical trials in people So tune in for a very enlightening show!