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Gladstone in the News February 12, 2026

SLAS Honors Scientific Excellence at its Record-Breaking 2026 International Conference and Exhibition in Boston

SLAS—Steve Finkbeiner, director of the Center for Systems and Therapeutics, was selected as the recipient of the 2026 Innovation Award by the Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening for his work on AI, robotics, and the thinking microscope.

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Article January 28, 2026

Voices of Outstanding Mentorship

Three recipients of Gladstone’s Outstanding Mentoring Award share their personal approaches to mentorship and reflect how this passion has shaped their own growth as leaders.

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Gladstone in the News January 28, 2026

Researchers Are Using A.I. to Decode the Human Genome

The New York Times—Katie Pollard, director of the Gladstone Institute of Data Science and Biotechnology, comments on how the 4D Nucleome Project is revealing the way DNA misfolding inside the nucleus can contribute to disease. (Subscription required.)

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Gladstone in the News January 27, 2026

Northwestern Researchers Map Human Genome Over Time

The Daily Northwestern—Katie Pollard, director of the Gladstone Institute of Data Science and Biotechnology, explains how the 4D Nucleome Project mapped the genome in 3D to understand how the folding of chromosomes relates to DNA function.

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Gladstone in the News January 25, 2026

Congenital Heart Disease Featuring Deepak Srivastava

The Stem Cell Podcast—Gladstone President and Investigator Deepak Srivastava discusses groundbreaking research on heart defects in Down syndrome and ways to encourage the growth of cell and gene therapies.

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Gladstone in the News January 23, 2026

The People Behind the Papers—Irfan Kathiriya and Benoit Bruneau

Development—Gladstone scientists Irfan Kathiriya and Benoit Bruneau comment on their study, which identified the gene TBX5 as a key regulator of the gene regulatory networks governing atrial cell type specification and a potential therapeutic target for genetic atrial diseases.

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Article January 23, 2026

Disrupted Boundary Between Cell Types Linked to Common Heart Defects

Gladstone scientists identified a cellular boundary that guides heart development and revealed how disrupting it can lead to holes in the heart’s wall.

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Article January 23, 2026

Meet Gladstone: Shyam Jinagal

Shyam Jinagal explores how genetics, aging, and regeneration shape the heart—and how those insights could one day restore heart function after injury.

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Gladstone in the News January 22, 2026

NIH Says it Will Stop Funding Research Using Human Fetal Tissue

The Washington Post—As the National Institutes of Health announced it would no longer support research that utilizes fetal tissue, Gladstone Investigator Steve Finkbeiner explains the importance of using this model to better understand Alzheimer’s disease. (Subscription required.)

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Gladstone in the News January 22, 2026

NIH Ends Support for Most Human Fetal-Tissue Research

Nature—Gladstone Investigator Steve Finkbeiner comments on new restrictions that many scientists believe will slow research on fetal development and stem-cell biology.

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Gladstone in the News January 8, 2026

Ex-Intel AI CTO Launches Topos Bio with $10.5M to Tackle ‘Undruggable’ Proteins Driving Alzheimer’s and Cancer

The AI Journal—A collaboration between Topos Bio and the team led by Steve Finkbeiner, director of the Center for Systems and Therapeutics at Gladstone, aims to apply a new approach to neurodegenerative disease.

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Article December 19, 2025

One Person’s Final Gift to Science Gets Us Closer to an HIV Cure

A new documentary follows Jim Dunn’s end-of-life decision to donate his tissues to HIV research.

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Article December 16, 2025

Gene Editing Strategy Could Treat Hundreds of Inherited Diseases More Effectively

Scientists at Gladstone show the new method could treat the majority of patients with Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease.

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Article December 15, 2025

Gladstone’s Scientific Highlights of 2025

From fundamental insights to translational advances, here’s how Gladstone researchers moved science forward in 2025.

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Article December 10, 2025

A Sculptor of Modern Regenerative Medicine

Among his myriad accomplishments, Rudolf Jaenisch—winner of the 2025 Ogawa-Yamanaka Stem Cell Prize—was the first to demonstrate the potential of induced pluripotent stem cells to treat disease.

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