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Article May 12, 2020

Commuting to the Lab during a Pandemic: Meet the Scientists Who Are Studying COVID-19

While many are working from home, these scientists are continuing to go to the lab in hopes of making a discovery that could lead to the end of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Gladstone in the News May 8, 2020

Ask an Expert: Clinical Work to Combat COVID-19

KCBS—Gladstone Senior Investigator Nevan Krogan spoke to KCBS radio about his team’s efforts to find therapies for COVID-19.

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Gladstone in the News May 5, 2020

Rallying to the Fight against COVID-19

New York Academy of Sciences—New York Academy of Sciences: Many winners of the NYAS Blavatnik Award for Young Scientists have redirected their research efforts to focus on COVID-19. These include Gladstone Senior Investigators Leor Weinberger and Nevan Krogan.

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Gladstone in the News May 2, 2020

Ingredient in Common Over-the-Counter Cough Medicines Helps Coronavirus Grow, Says Research

MEAWW—Gladstone Investigator Nevan Krogan describes his efforts to identify drugs that affect COVID-19, including the finding that a component of cough syrup may have the undesirable effect of improving viral replication.

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Article May 1, 2020

Protecting the Heart from COVID-19

Cardiac effects of COVID-19 are starting to show in patients and researchers are ready to fight it.

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Gladstone in the News May 1, 2020

Chasing a Killer

San Francisco Chronicle—Gladstone Senior Investigator Nevan Krogan describes his team’s rapid response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and how by mapping the interactions between SARS-CoV-2 and human cells they hope to identify ways to eliminate the deadly virus.

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Video May 1, 2020

CRISPR, Genetic Disease, and COVID-19

Learn more about CRISPR, a disruptive technology influencing advances in treatment and cures of diseases through gene editing.

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Gladstone in the News April 30, 2020

Old Drugs May Find a New Purpose: Fighting the Coronavirus

New York Times—Gladstone Investigator Nevan Krogan describes his team’s effort to identify drugs that target the human proteins that interact with SARS-CoV-2, and the hope that this effort may lead to effective therapies for COVID-19 that can move rapidly through the testing and approval process.

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Gladstone in the News April 30, 2020

Scientists Have Discovered Drugs That Block Coronavirus, Paving Way for “a Better Drug Sooner”

San Francisco Chronicle—Gladstone Senior Investigator Nevan Krogan explains his team’s efforts to understand how COVID-19 interacts with human cells, and how they are using that information to identify drugs that could be used to fight the virus.

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Gladstone in the News April 30, 2020

Coronavirus: Repurposing Drugs to Protect Human Cells

The Mercury News—Nevan Krogan explains his team’s approach to finding drugs to confront the COVID-19 pandemic: hunting for drugs that target the human proteins on which the virus relies.

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Gladstone in the News April 30, 2020

UCSF Part of Worldwide Collaborative Effort to Fight COVID-19

NBC Bay Area—Senior Investigator Nevan Krogan describes his team’s effort to identify drugs that disrupt the interactions between human cells and SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.

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Gladstone in the News April 30, 2020

Research Shows Common Cough Syrup Ingredient Makes Coronavirus Grow More

KQED—Gladstone Senior Investigator Nevan Krogan and his team found that many drugs already approved by the FDA for other purposes may be useful to treat COVID-19. The research also reveals that an ingredient commonly found in cough suppressants can cause the SARS-CoV-2 virus to grow more quickly in the lab setting.

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Gladstone in the News April 30, 2020

Gladstone Institutes Researchers Tackle Coronavirus with Robotics, Mobile Phone Technology

Engineering.com—Gladstone Senior Investigators Melanie Ott and Jennifer Doudna are collaborating with scientists across the Bay Area to develop a rapid COVID-19 testing platform that pairs CRISPR technology with a smartphone camera.

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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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Gladstone in the News April 8, 2020

Inside the Unprecedented Global Race for a Coronavirus Cure

Nikkei Asian Review—Gladstone Senior Investigator Nevan Krogan describes how his lab launched a collaborative effort to map all human proteins that interact with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. Through this heroic effort, a map was produced in just a few weeks. Now, the team is testing to see if drugs can be used to disrupt those interactions to fight the infection.

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