The CMAJ published their Essay for the 2011 CIHR/CMAJ Award: Motherisk — caring for mothers, protecting the unborn (Gideon Koren, MD, Irena Nulman, MD, Katarina Aleksa, PhD, Joey Gareri, MSc, Adrienne Einarson, RN, Shinya Ito, MD
The federal granting agencies, CIHR, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, and Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada teamed up and agreed that no research with human IPSCs would be funded without review and approval from the Stem Cell Oversight Committee (SCOC).
The SGC is supported by funding from the Wellcome Trust, GSK, Novartis, Eli Lilly, Pfizer, Takeda, Abbott, Life Technologies, the Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR), Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI), Genome Canada, the Ontario's Ministry of Economic Development and Innovation (MEDI).