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Gladstone in the News November 3, 2022

Medical Milestones Are Underway at San Francisco’s Gladstone Institutes

Nob Hill Gazette—Home to 30 labs and 500 researchers, Gladstone is a hub of cutting-edge research and advances toward cures for the most devastating diseases.

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Article October 17, 2022

Gladstone Data Scientist Elected to the National Academy of Medicine

Katie Pollard is recognized for discovering fast-evolving regions of the human genome and for creating open-source software used by scientists worldwide

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Gladstone in the News October 17, 2022

National Academy of Medicine Elects 100 New Members

National Academy of Medicine—Katie Pollard, PhD, senior investigator and director of the Gladstone Institute of Data Science and Biotechnology, has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine, in recognition of her discovery of fast-evolving regions in the human genome associated with psychiatric diseases, and of her open-source software used worldwide by genome scientists.

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Article December 23, 2021

Strains—not Species—of Gut Microbes Hold Key to Health and Disease

Two new studies underscore the importance of looking at bacterial strains when analyzing the human gut microbiome

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Article October 12, 2020

Strong Women in STEM: A Conversation with Katie Pollard

In honor of Ada Lovelace Day, Katie Pollard discusses what it’s like to be a woman in STEM and how being an outsider has helped shape her career.

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Article July 21, 2020

Crunching the Numbers to Determine Patient Outcomes

With a tool capable of taking large sets of data and distilling it into patterns, researchers at Gladstone hope to better predict COVID-19 patient outcomes and improve patient care.

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Article June 30, 2020

New Genomic Atlas of the Developing Human Brain

Scientists at Gladstone and UCSF created a valuable new resource for studying the origins of neurodevelopmental disease.

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Video June 1, 2020

Exploring Human Microbes through Big Data

In this episode of the Newton Series, Katie Pollard shares how big data allows for deep exploration of the human microbiome.

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Video May 15, 2020

The Thinking Microscope: Reimagining Science through the Lens of AI and Robotics

Steve Finkbeiner explains how his lab uses machine learning and robotics to find answers to some of the world's most devastating diseases.

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Article April 22, 2020

Data-Driven Discovery

Many Gladstone researchers rely on computational approaches, machine learning, and innovative software to make biomedical discoveries.

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Article April 2, 2020

Gladstone Senior Investigator Katie Pollard Named 2020 ISCB Fellow

Katie Pollard was recognized for being a world leader in developing statistical models and open-source bioinformatics software for biological big data.

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Article January 16, 2020

Measuring Research Impact

Gladstone researcher Alex Pico helped develop a new way to measure the difference one discovery can make on science around the world.

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Article December 11, 2019

Gladstone Investigator to Direct UCSF’s Graduate Program in Biological and Medical Informatics

Katie Pollard, PhD, new director of UCSF’s graduate program in biological and medical informatics, will prioritize teamwork, mentoring, and ties with UC Berkeley.

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Article November 20, 2019

Machine, Meet Stem Cells

Gladstone researchers used a machine-learning approach to discover new ways of controlling the spatial organization of induced pluripotent stem cells.

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Article July 30, 2019

Regenerating the Heart after Tissue Damage

Gladstone scientists gain important insights into the cellular reprogramming process

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