Symposium News April 21, 2005 JESSE BLOUT Executive Director, Mayor's Office of Workforce and Economic Development to speak at the symposium on April 26 March 25, 2005 PRESS MENTION Ny Teknik: "Sverige söker stamcellsam- arbete med USA" March 22, 2005 ROBERT KLIEN Chairman of the CIRM to speak at the symposium on April 26 March 15, 2005 PRESS MENTION Svenska Dagbladet: "Stamceller hett i Kalifornien"

PANEL DISCUSSION 1 - INVESTING IN STEM CELLS COMPANIES Participants: Deepa Pakianahthan, Ph.D., (Principal, Delphi Ventures), Andy Schwab (Managing Partner, 5AM Ventures) and Sylvia Burks (Swedish Practice Team, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP) (9:15 AM-10:00 AM, April 26). PANEL DISCUSSION 2 - LEGAL PERSPECTIVES & CALIFORNIA PROPOSITION 71 AND ITS SIGNIFICANCE Participants: Maureen Corcoran, (Leader Healthcare Industry Team, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP) on Prop. 71 (15 min), John Wetherell, Ph.D. (Steering committee, National Life Science Group, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP) on registration, licensing and Intellectual Property (IP) issues in cross border transactions as well as stem cells companies set-up and structure (10:15 AM-11:15 AM, April 26). PANEL DISCUSSION 3 - SWEDISH-CALIFORNIAN BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES Participants: Anders Vedin, MD, Ph.D., (Vedicon Consultancy; Chairman, Cellartis), Ralph Snodgrass, Ph.D., (CEO Vistagen Inc), Anders Haegerstrand, M.D., Ph.D., (Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer, Neuronova) and Jane Lebkowski, Ph.D., (Senior Vice-President of Tissue Regenerative Medicine, Geron Corporation) (4:15 PM-5:00 PM, April 26). PANEL DISCUSSION 4 - CHALLENGES TOWARDS CLINICAL APPLICATIONS OF STEM CELLS Participants: Susan Fisher, Ph.D., (University of California San Francisco), Bertram H. Lubin, M.D., (Children's Hospital of Oakland Research Institute), Anders Björklund, M.D., PhD., (Lund University) and Henrik Semb, Ph.D., (Lund University and Cellartis) (2:30 PM-3:30 PM, April 27).