From Caltech & PCC
Though they both call the City of Roses their home, a leading international research institution and a terrific community college wouldn't necessarily seem to share much or to be partners. But a $1.7 million program funded by the state lets an array of PCC students work with stem cells in state-of-the-art labs at Caltech. Many of the talented students from the college are career-changers, moms returning to school and even a 17-year-old from South Pasadena who hasn't finished high school. Their internships will help them prepare to be stem cell lab techs. They also do much of their work in a former PCC stockroom, renovated and upgraded by a Caltech postdoc with generous donations from biotech companies. Passage of Prop. 71 helped push California to the fore of stem cell research.
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