Owen Witte, MD, NSBCC investigator and director of UCLA's newly renamed Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research, discusses a landmark $20 million donation to support and endow the stem cell institute.  He indicates that this award will allow more flexibility in approach to research, and allow greater advances in science more quickly.  Dr. Witte also expounds on stem cell potential and how the Broad Foundation gift will advance understanding and application of this potential treatment.