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Article November 8, 2015

Dance and Science Merge to Raise Awareness for HIV Prevention

For more than three decades, the AIDS pandemic has swept the world. Different groups have been dealing with this tragedy in a variety ways. Gladstone has one of the premier HIV research teams, but others have focused their efforts on outreach, treatment, and prevention.

Grant Lab HIV/AIDS

Undergraduate students from the UC-Historically Black Colleges and Universities Initiative Program

Article October 21, 2015

Diversity Interns from UC Davis Visit Gladstone

Undergraduate students from the UC-Historically Black Colleges and Universities Initiative Program toured Gladstone and learned about higher education and careers in science.

Student Outreach and Science Education Graduate Students and Postdocs

Article October 20, 2015

Nobel Prize Winner Elected to the National Academy of Medicine

Nobel Prize winner Shinya Yamanaka, MD, PhD, a senior investigator at the Gladstone Institutes in San Francisco, has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine.

Yamanaka Lab

Article October 19, 2015

Profile: Jeanne Paz, PhD

Jeanne Paz emphasizes that keeping an open mind and thinking outside of the box can move scientific research in new, unanticipated directions.

Paz Lab

Article October 14, 2015

Gladstone Teams Renew Federal Funding for Research on Congenital Heart Disease

Gladstone has received funding from the National Institutes of Health to continue and expand two exciting projects in cardiovascular research. The funding, totaling more than $6.8 million, supports two teams of scientists and their research on congenital heart disease.

Congenital Heart Disease Bruneau Lab Pollard Lab Srivastava Lab Stem Cells/iPSCs

Article October 9, 2015

Blood T Cells Are Resistant to HIV’s Primary Death Pathway

Scientists from the Gladstone Institutes have discovered that blood-derived T cells are resistant to the chief cause of cell death in HIV infection. Instead, it is T cells in the lymphoid tissues that are most susceptible and whose death leads to the progression from HIV infection to AIDS.

HIV/AIDS Greene Lab

Article October 9, 2015

Blood Clotting Protein Triggers Immune Attack on the Brain

A new study from the Gladstone Institutes shows that a single drop of blood in the brain is sufficient to activate an autoimmune response akin to multiple sclerosis (MS).

Akassoglou Lab Multiple Sclerosis

National Student Leadership Conference event

Article October 7, 2015

Gladstone Inspires the Next Generation of Scientists

Gladstone is dedicated to training the next generation of scientists—not just trainees within its own walls, but also young students who aspire to obtain careers in the exciting world of biomedical research. Gladstone touches the lives of budding scientists through a number of outreach programs, but its most considerable impact is on the large number of students who visit Gladstone every summer as part of the National Student Leadership Conference (NSLC).

Student Outreach and Science Education Graduate Students and Postdocs

Article October 5, 2015

Mapping the Brain Using Proteins, Light, and a Deadly Virus

Innovative research tools are transforming the field of neuroscience, bringing us closer to much-needed cures for neurological diseases.

Kreitzer Lab Optogenetics

Article September 25, 2015

Gladstone Celebrates Its Postdocs during National Postdoc Appreciation Week

Gladstone celebrated National Postdoc Appreciation Week by recognizing the hard work and dedication of its postdocs who are the major engine that drives scientific research at Gladstone

Article September 24, 2015

100 Years to Find a Cure: Can the Process Be Accelerated?

Scientists from the Gladstone Institutes have provided a detailed map of how basic research translates into new treatments for deadly diseases.

Basic Science Big Data Pico

Article September 21, 2015

Questions and Answers about CRISPR

A fast and powerful new gene-editing technology is changing biomedical research, and it has the potential to do much more. But before we start using this method to rewrite genomes outside of the laboratory, several key questions need to be answered.

CRISPR/Gene Editing

Article September 21, 2015

Old Drug Offers New Hope to Treat Alzheimer’s Disease

By repurposing a prescription drug used to treat rheumatoid arthritis, researchers at the Gladstone Institutes successfully reversed tau-related symptoms in an animal model of dementia.

Alzheimer’s Disease Gan Lab