Gladstone in the News
June 20, 2021
San Francisco Chronicle—Senior Investigator Warner Greene, MD, PhD, calls the Delta strain of the coronavirus, which originated in India, our biggest threat so far because it is rapidly spreading all over the world, and reminds us that other new strains may yet arise.
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May 19, 2021
While the practice of placing papers on preprint servers ahead of peer review remains controversial in the scientific community worldwide, many Gladstone investigators are using bioRxiv to advance their research and get information out more quickly
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Gladstone in the News
April 21, 2021
ABC7 News—Senior Investigator Melanie Ott, PhD, Director of the Gladstone Institute of Virology, talks about the long path to leadership and recognition for women in medicine.
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Gladstone in the News
April 19, 2021
abc News—Gladstone Institutes President Deepak Srivastava, MD, describes possible symptoms of blood clots after vaccination with the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, but reiterates that such side effects are extremely rare and should not be a reason for alarm for the millions of people who have already received their J&J shot.
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Gladstone in the News
April 8, 2021
San Francisco Business Times—Senior Investigator Melanie Ott, MD, PhD, and Graduate Student Parinaz Fozouni explain how the CRISPR- and smartphone-based diagnostic platform they recently developed with UC Berkeley Dan Fletcher, PhD, and Nobel Laureate Jennifer Doudna, PhD, could allow low-cost and widespread testing and help to quickly curb the course of this and future pandemics.
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Gladstone in the News
March 6, 2021
The Mercury News—Director of Gladstone Institute of Virology Melanie Ott, MD, PhD, comments on the new coronavirus variants and says vaccines currently distributed in the US protect against hospitalization and death from COVID-19.
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Gladstone in the News
March 5, 2021
San Francisco Business Times—Melanie Ott, MD, PhD, director of the Gladstone Institute of Virology, is one of several key Bay Area women life scientists sharing their views on their careers, the pandemic, and the path ahead for women leaders.
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Gladstone in the News
March 4, 2021
San Francisco Public Press—Senior Investigator Warner Greene describes the efforts of Gladstone scientists to discover ways to treat the acute and long-term consequences of COVID-19, and their hope of discovering antiviral approaches that could be ready for use to battle future pandemic viruses.
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Gladstone in the News
January 24, 2021
San Francisco Chronicle—The United States is trying accelerate coronavirus vaccine distribution, which could allow the country to achieve herd immunity. However, Gladstone virologist Warner Greene points out that the coronavirus is a global problem, and ending the pandemic will require mobilizing vaccines around the world.
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Gladstone in the News
January 20, 2021
San Francisco Chronicle—New coronavirus variants are emerging around the world, including in the Bay Area. Melanie Ott, director of the Gladstone Institute of Virology, explains that if the vaccine rollout isn’t fast enough, viral variants that can evade the vaccine may become prevalent, rendering the vaccine partially ineffective.
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