Host: Sam Shad
Co-Host: Ray Hagar, RGJ

Guests:
Dr. Francis Collins, DRI’s 2009 Medal Recipient
Pundits:
Howard Rosenberg, UNR professor
Connie McMullen, Publisher, Senior Spectrum Newspaper
Heidi Smith, Chairman, Washoe County Republican Party

"I could take one of your skin cells and convince it somehow to go back in time and become a cell that could be a liver or it could be a bone marrow or it could be a brain cell. All of the things that you might need if you fell ill. Of all the big developments in medicine, I would say, Genomics and stem cells are probably the top two. "

- Dr, Francis Collins, DRI Medal Recipient for 2009, for leading the mapping project of the Human Genome - discussing his excitement over the new attitude towards federally funded stem cell research, being promoted by President Obama.