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Meeting their Fate

Posted by Elizabeth Cooney April 11, 2008 07:52 AM

neurons%20100.bmpRemember the fanfare when Fate Therapeutics was launched last year?

The startup's goal is to capitalize on the promise of stem cells. To do that it gathered the leading lights of the field, including founders Dr. David Scadden of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute and Massachusetts General Hospital and Dr. Leonard Zon of Harvard University and Children's Hospital Boston. Robert S. Langer Jr. and Ram Sasisekharan of MIT sit on the scientific advisory board.

Find out on xconomy.com how venture capitalists brought them (and other stem-cell stars) together, including a fateful meeting at a French restaurant near Mass. General.

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Elizabeth Cooney is a former health reporter for the Worcester Telegram & Gazette, where she also was a business reporter and an editor. Earlier in her career, she edited medical books and journals at Little, Brown, and worked for Boston magazine.

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