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Gladstone in the News October 6, 2025

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Is Awarded for Work on Immune Systems

The New York Times—After scientists were awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discoveries of peripheral immune tolerance, Alex Marson, director of the Gladstone-UCSF Institute of Genomic Immunology, comments on how their work has been central to understanding autoimmune diseases and cancers. (Subscription required.)

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Article October 6, 2025

Katerina Akassoglou Receives Zenith Fellows Award to Advance Alzheimer’s Research

Akassoglou has opened doors to understanding how the blood protein fibrin is involved in Alzheimer’s and other neurodegenerative diseases.

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Gladstone in the News September 26, 2025

Broadening the Battle: Fighting Infectious Diseases Beyond Just Viruses

Bioengineer.org—The Gladstone Institute of Virology has undergone a significant transformation in both name and scientific mission, emerging as the Gladstone Infectious Disease Institute. This change, led by Melanie Ott, director of the newly named institute, signals an ambitious commitment to tackle the complex landscape of infectious diseases that threaten human populations worldwide.

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Gladstone in the News September 26, 2025

New Treatment Shows Promise for Huntington’s Disease

The New York Times—Steve Finkbeiner, director of the Center for Systems and Therapeutics at Gladstone, notes that a new gene therapy shows promise for patients affected by Huntington’s disease, but untreated brain regions may still experience neurodegeneration. (Subscription required.)

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Article September 25, 2025

Beyond Viruses: Expanding the Fight Against Infectious Diseases

The newly renamed Gladstone Infectious Disease Institute broadens its mission to address global health threats ranging from antibiotic resistance to infections that cause chronic diseases.

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Gladstone in the News September 22, 2025

Real-Time Molecular Recorders Expose the Inner Lives of Cells

Nature—Gladstone Investigator Seth Shipman weighs in on the promise of DNA-based “molecular recorders” to reveal how cells develop and change in real time.

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Gladstone in the News September 19, 2025

Jennifer Doudna on Vaccinations

The Atlantic (via Instagram)—In this short video clip, Gladstone Investigator Jennifer Doudna explains how vaccinations have been so successful that there's been a collective forgetting that diseases, including measles, used to kill people in fairly large numbers.

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Gladstone in the News September 11, 2025

NIH Funding Cuts Will Cost Lives and Threaten Innovation

San Francisco Business Times—In this commentary, Gladstone President Deepak Srivastava warns that severe funding cuts from the National Institutes of Health would put lifesaving biomedical research—and patients—at risk.

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Article September 2, 2025

Virologist Viewpoints: The Promise of Cancer Vaccines

Magnus Hoffmann explains the science behind cancer vaccines and how they could change the game.

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Article August 28, 2025

The 2025 Ogawa-Yamanaka Stem Cell Prize Awarded to Rudolf Jaenisch

Jaenisch is recognized for his trailblazing contributions to epigenetics and stem cell biology, which have shaped modern regenerative medicine.

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Article August 27, 2025

Overworked Brain Cells May Burn Out in Parkinson’s Disease

A discovery about the consequence of neuron overactivity could lead to new methods of treating or preventing Parkinson’s disease.

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Article August 25, 2025

Meet Gladstone: Oscar Yip

Oscar Yip is advancing Alzheimer’s research in Yadong Huang’s lab at Gladstone while drawing inspiration from his family, community, and his broader goal of helping patients.

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Article August 22, 2025

From Mentorship to Legacy: Creating Opportunity for Early Career Scientists

Robert and Linda Mahley’s commitment to trainee development continues through Gladstone’s annual Career Advancement Awards.

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Article August 21, 2025

When Brain Cells Talk: NOMIS-Gladstone Fellow Yuliya Voskobiynyk on Decoding Microglia’s Secret Signals

NOMIS–Gladstone Fellow Yuliya Voskobiynyk, PhD, shares her journey from Ukraine to Gladstone and how her research on microglia could shed light on brain function and diseases like epilepsy and Alzheimer’s.

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Article August 21, 2025

The Brain’s Hidden Clean-Up Crew: NOMIS-Gladstone Fellow Myung Jin Yang’s Quest to Unlock the Mystery

NOMIS–Gladstone Fellow Myung Jin Yang is uncovering how the brain clears waste without traditional lymphatic vessels, a mystery that could shed light on aging and neurodegenerative diseases.

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