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Do You Need a 4th Dose of a COVID-19 Vaccine? There’s No One-Size-Fits-All Answer

Gladstone in the News March 30, 2022

Do You Need a 4th Dose of a COVID-19 Vaccine? There’s No One-Size-Fits-All Answer

CBC—The FDA recently authorized a fourth dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for all individuals over aged 50, and for those 12 and older with immunodeficiencies. Melanie Ott, director of the Gladstone Institute of Virology, explains that whereas a fourth shot may not be urgently necessary for individuals who are young and healthy, she does encourage those eligible to ensure that they get their third shot (first booster).

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Highly-Transmissible COVID Subvariant Increasing in CA, but Expert ‘Doubts’ Lockdowns Will Be Needed

Gladstone in the News March 16, 2022

Highly-Transmissible COVID Subvariant Increasing in CA, but Expert ‘Doubts’ Lockdowns Will Be Needed

ABC News—A sub-variant of Omicron known as BA.2 is causing a spike in COVID-19 cases in Europe, and is predicted to become the globally dominant variant in the coming weeks. However, Senior Investigator Warner Greene says that vaccinated and boosted individuals are still well protected against serious illness, and spread of this new variant is unlikely to lead to new lockdowns.

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Three Ways to Strengthen a Collaborative Culture

Gladstone in the News March 9, 2022

Three Ways to Strengthen a Collaborative Culture

The APQC Blog—Gladstone President Deepak Srivastava, MD, President Emeritus Robert Mahley, MD, PhD, Senior Investigators Melanie Ott, MD, PhD, and Katie Pollard, PhD, explain how they and others at Gladstone create a collaborative research culture and plan to balance safety with the chance encounters that fuel creativity.

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Disease in a Dish: What Mini-Hearts and Other Organs Reveal about Long COVID

Gladstone in the News March 9, 2022

Disease in a Dish: What Mini-Hearts and Other Organs Reveal about Long COVID

San Jose Mercury News—Senior Investigators Melanie Ott, MD, PhD, and Bruce Conklin, MD, recount how they used miniature balls of beating heart cells called organoids to study the effects of COVID-19 on the heart. The heart cells were derived from a person’s skin cells, thanks to technology pioneered by Senior Investigator and Nobel Laureate Shinya Yamanaka, MD, PhD.

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Omicron Could Be the Beginning of the End of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Gladstone in the News January 26, 2022

Omicron Could Be the Beginning of the End of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Time—The Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 has spread around the world at an alarming rate, but some scientists think the variant might actually be a sign of hope. Nadia Roan explains that widespread infection may lead to widespread immunity, which could help turn the pandemic virus into an endemic virus. Warner Greene posits that the best-case scenario is that the virus will weaken, continuing to spread but without causing severe disease.

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