Gladstone in the News
September 4, 2020
ABC7 News—As sports teams and colleges consider restarting the athletics season, Senior Investigator Todd McDevitt, PhD, and Gladstone President and Cardiologist Deepak Srivastava, MD, express concern that damage to the heart caused by SARS-CoV-2 infection could put athletes at risk for serious heart problems even if they only experienced mild COVID-19 symptoms.
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Cardiovascular Disease
McDevitt Lab
Srivastava Lab
Gladstone in the News
September 3, 2020
STAT—Senior Investigators Todd McDevitt, PhD, and Bruce Conklin, MD, comment on their recent findings of severe damage in cardiac cells exposed to SARS-CoV-2 in the lab and in the heart cells of deceased COVID-19 patients. They also explain why they felt the need to share these findings rapidly with the scientific community via the preprint publishing platform bioRxiv.
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COVID-19
Cardiovascular Disease
Data Science and Biotechnology
Conklin Lab
McDevitt Lab
Gladstone in the News
August 28, 2020
Newsweek—In an article about researchers facing legal pursuits for practicing open science during an avian flu epidemic, Gladstone Institute of Virology Director Melanie Ott, MD, PhD, is quoted praising the spirit of collaboration and data-sharing that pervades current research on COVID-19.
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COVID-19
Virology
Ott Lab
Gladstone in the News
August 27, 2020
Inverse—A new study from researchers at Yale University showed that males have a less robust T cell response to the coronavirus than females do. Gladstone virologist Warner Greene comments that this finding may in part explain why men are more likely to die from COVID-19 than women, and that it suggests men and women may benefit from different treatments.
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COVID-19
Virology
Greene Lab
Gladstone in the News
August 23, 2020
San Francisco Business Times—Senior Investigator Warner Greene, MD, PhD, bemoans the disagreements among federal health leaders and the lack of coordinated federal response to the pandemic, while also expressing cautious confidence in the therapeutic value of convalescent plasma and of other immune-based therapies.
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COVID-19
Greene Lab
Gladstone in the News
August 23, 2020
San Francisco Chronicle—Gladstone scientist Nadia Roan explains how her recent discoveries provide hope that it may be possible to harness the power of T cells to kill coronavirus and develop an effective vaccine.
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COVID-19
Virology
Roan Lab
Gladstone in the News
August 15, 2020
San Francisco Chronicle—Senior Investigator Warner Greene, MD, PhD, and a number of Bay Area experts explain the complexities of manufacturing and delivering vaccines against the coronavirus efficiently and safely, and stress the necessity for the scientific and health authorities to build public trust about these vaccines.
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Center for HIV Cure Research
Greene Lab
Gladstone in the News
August 10, 2020
MedPage Today—Gladstone Senior Investigator Warner Greene spoke to MedPage Today about how the human immune system reacts to SARS-CoV-2, and the prospects for a COVID-19 vaccine.
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COVID-19
Virology
Greene Lab
Gladstone in the News
August 3, 2020
Medium—Senior Investigator Nevan Krogan, PhD, explains his group's recent discovery of the cellular processes the coronavirus commandeers to grow and propagate and how this information can be harnessed for drug development.
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COVID-19
Data Science and Biotechnology
Krogan Lab
