LA JOLLA LIGHT
Enlightening La Jolla Since 1913
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Vol. 99 Issue 49 • December 8, 2011
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■ La Jolla turns out for Christmas parade A4
■ 10 places your gift will make a difference B1
■ USTA event comes to end in La Jolla A20
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Unique hub for stem cell research opens in La Jolla
The Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine, named for philanthropist T. Denny Sanford, sits on a prominent site across from The Salk Institute.
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BY LYNNE FRIEDMANN La Jolla, already in the vanguard of scientific research, has become the hub of San Diego’s stem cell research community with the dedication of the Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine (SCRM). The four-story structure on Torrey Pines Scenic Drive contains 150,700 square feet of space designed to support both focused individual and collaborative team research. SCRM is a consortium of five research institutions on Torrey Pines Mesa: Salk Institute for Biological Studies, The Scripps Research Institute,
Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute, University of California, San Diego, and La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology. Scientists from the collaborating institutes will focus on basic science as well as pursue projects to invent tools and technologies to advance stem cell research with the ultimate goal to discover and develop innovative diagnostics and therapies for chronic disease and injury. Despite the building’s imposing size and science focus, the nonprofit SCRM is not a
SEE SANFORD, A14
Susan DeMaggio named new La Jolla Light editor
Inspiration Drive home sale is tops this year at $12 million
Susan DeMaggio is the new execTribune. Before that she was feautive editor of the La Jolla Light, tures editor for the Muskegon said Phyllis Pfeiffer, publisher of (Michigan) Chronicle and managthe Light and the coastal group ing editor for a group of lifestyle newspapers of Mainmagazines. Other career Street Media San Diego. stops include stints as a DeMaggio succeeds legal reporter, projects Kathy Day who is stepeditor and news editor ping down from that for various newspapers post to write for the in Michigan. Light and spend more DeMaggio is a graduate time with her family. of Wayne State University In her recent assignin Detroit with a B.A. in ment as Lifestyles editor Journalism and has taken for the Light and its sispost graduate courses in Susan DeMaggio, the Service Journalism preter papers in Del Mar, Light’s new editor, Solana Beach, Rancho sented by Columbia relaxes at the beach. School of Journalism. Santa Fe and Carmel Valley, DeMaggio distin“Over my past two guished herself as a viyears at The Light, I sionary editor, with a flair for comhave come to learn and love the La munity journalism. Prior to joining Jolla community,” DeMaggio said. the Light, she was editor of Today’s “It is a privilege for this journalist Local News and the SDbackyard SEE EDITOR, A7 website for the San Diego Union-
BY KATHY DAY Staff Writer Having just sold the Muirlands home of Steve and Sandy Ganes for $12 million, Maxie Gellens said, “It makes you feel like the market is opening up.” The biggest sale of the year in San Diego County, it is the third home to sell in the past six months for more than $10 million, the Prudential California Realty agent said. Noting that it’s been more than two years since a La Jolla home sold for that much, she said it took three times on the market and 40 or 50 showings before a buyer showed up at the home at 1330 Inspiration Drive “who loved the house when they walked in and, shortly after, bought it.” The buyers closed on the property after a 90-day escrow, said Gellens, who with her daughter and
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1330 Inspiration Drive, which recently sold for $12 Million. partner Marti Gellens represented the sellers. The seller is the former president of the Prudential brokerage. The 12,203-square-foot home is described in the listing as an “Old Muirlands trophy estate” with seven bedrooms, 11 bathrooms and three powder rooms. Rosemary Logan Rodger, also a
SEE HOUSE, A9
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