Ineligible grant to get more money?

Last April, Evan Snyder of the Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute in La Jolla received a CIRM for $3.6 million -- a move that was apparently against CIRM's ban against non-California spending. CIRM's chief communications officer Don Gibbons did not say how the application proposing out-of-state spending came to be approved by the board.

Now, the CIRM directors are being asked to approve an additional $1.85 million for Snyder, but no one seems to know why. What could be going on here? How did an ineligible grant get funded in the first place, and why is the board now considering a 50% boost for the proposal?

--Jef Akst, Associate Editor, The Scientist

Writer faults the grantor for giving money to a group he identifies as being in La Jolla, saying this did not comply with intra-California mission of grant fund. Last I knew, La Jolla IS in California, near San diego. This is imprecise or sloppy writing, and the Editor must have been asleep not to have caught it and fixed, or at least required writer to explain.

Agreeing with LeslieTS545542 on her last point,

It takes one to click on the blue "did not say", to a California Stem Cell Report to find out more than halfway down exactly where the non-California site is - St. Kitts.

While not "sloppy writing", that location should have been stated by Jef up front to prevent the scratching of more than one head.