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Article July 13, 2011

Gladstone to Speed Drug Development with Center for Comprehensive Alzheimer’s Disease Research

SAN FRANCISCO, CA—July 14, 2011—The Gladstone Institutes today announced plans to create a Center for Comprehensive Alzheimer's Disease Research, offering new hope for the millions of families stricken by this debilitating neurodegenerative disease.

Alzheimer’s Disease

July 10, 2011

Gladstone to Receive $5.6 Million in Federal Funds to Seek a Cure for AIDS

SAN FRANCISCO, CA—July 11, 2011—The Gladstone Institutes will receive funds totaling $5.6 million over five years as part of the first-ever major funding initiative focusing on HIV eradication.

June 30, 2011

Gladstone Ranked #1 Academic Employer

SAN FRANCISCO, CA—July 1, 2011—The Gladstone Institutes has been named America's best place to work in academia, capping a seven-year stint in which readers of The Scientist have ranked the independent biomedical-research organization among academia's top ten places to work.

Article May 8, 2011

Gladstone Scientist Wins $1.7 Million Grant for Cardiovascular Research

SAN FRANCISCO, CA—May 9, 2011—The Gladstone Institute's Deepak Srivastava, MD, has received a $1.7 million grant from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) for further investigation into treatments for heart disease.

May 2, 2011

Gladstone Scientist Elected to National Academy of Sciences

SAN FRANCISCO, CA—May 3, 2011—The United States' National Academy of Sciences today elected Gladstone Senior Investigator Shinya Yamanaka MD, PhD, to its membership, bestowing yet another honor on the Japanese scientist whose discovery of a promising new stem-cell technology has major implication

Article April 28, 2011

Hellman Family Foundation Gives $1M to Gladstone for Alzheimer’s Disease Research

SAN FRANCISCO, CA—April 29, 2011—The Hellman Family Foundation has donated $1 million to the Gladstone Institutes to help spur the development of medications for Alzheimer's disease.

Alzheimer’s Disease

April 24, 2011

Gladstone Scientist Makes Key Innovations in Stem-Cell Technology

SAN FRANCISCO, CA—April 25, 2011—A scientist at the Gladstone Institutes has made two significant stem-cell discoveries that advance medicine and human health by creating powerful new approaches for using stem cells and stem-cell-like technology.

April 15, 2011

Gladstone Scientists Identify Genes Involved in Embryonic-heart Development

SAN FRANCISCO, CA—April 16, 2011—Scientists at the Gladstone Institutes have identified networks of genes that play an important role in embryonic-heart development, advancing knowledge of how healthy hearts develop—and offering clues about how to combat a common birth defect known as congenital

March 8, 2011

Gladstone Joins With World’s Top Virologists To Prevent, Treat Virus Outbreaks

SAN FRANCISCO, CA—March 9, 2011—The Gladstone Institutes, a leading biomedical-research organization, today announced its participation in a bold new consortium intended to help the global community better identify, prevent and treat outbreaks of new or re-emerging viruses. Dr.

Gladstone in the News December 16, 2010

Gladstone-Led HIV Study Tops Time List

San Francisco Business Times—Ten years ago, an international HIV study led by then Gladstone Investigator Robert Grant, MD, MPH, showed that the antiretroviral drug Truvada taken as a prophylactic could reduce the risk of infection by HIV, a study that was declared medical breakthrough of the year by Time magazine.

Gladstone Experts HIV/AIDS

December 15, 2010

Gladstone’s Shinya Yamanaka to Receive Warren Prize from Massachusetts General Hospital

SAN FRANCISCO, CA—December 16, 2010—The Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) announced today that Shinya Yamanaka, MD, PhD, will receive the 2011 Warren Triennial Prize. Dr. Yamanaka discovered a method to convert adult cells into cells with characteristics of embryonic stem cells.

November 30, 2010

Research Brings Hope for This World AIDS Day

SAN FRANCISCO, CA—December 1, 2010—For the AIDS community, Thanksgiving came a bit early this year, and after many difficult years, three announcements give hope and reason for celebration during this year's World AIDS Day.

Article November 27, 2010

Gene Therapy Prevents Memory Problems in Mice with Alzheimer’s Disease

SAN FRANCISCO, CA—Scientists at the Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease (GIND) in San Francisco have discovered a new strategy to prevent memory deficits in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease.

Alzheimer’s Disease Mucke Lab

November 23, 2010

Deciphering How CD4 T Cells Die During HIV Infection

SAN FRANCISCO, CA—Scientists at Gladstone Institute of Virology and Immunology have solved a long-standing mystery about HIV infection—namely how HIV promotes the death of CD4 T cells. It is the loss of this critical subset of immune cells that leads to the development of AIDS.

Greene Lab HIV/AIDS

November 22, 2010

Use of HIV Medications Reduces Risk of HIV Infection in Uninfected People

San Francisco, CA—In a finding with the potential to fundamentally change strategies to slow the global HIV epidemic, a new study called iPrEx shows that individuals at high risk for HIV infection who took a single daily tablet containing two widely used HIV medications, emtricitabine and tenofov

Grant Lab HIV/AIDS

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