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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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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 March 25, 2020

Help the Gladstone Bioinformatics Core’s Effort to Tackle COVID-19

You can help advance research on COVID-19

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Article February 24, 2020

Tackling Heart Disease: It Takes a Team

Gladstone researchers are collaborating to solve cardiovascular diseases using new technologies.

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Video February 17, 2020

Embracing Disruptive Technologies to Accelerate Science Overcoming Disease

From penicillin to organ transplants, so many important discoveries have dramatically changed healthcare and medicine over the past decades. But what’s really behind all this progress?

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Article January 24, 2020

Jennifer Doudna Wins the 2020 Wolf Prize in Medicine

The Wolf Foundation grants awards annually to celebrate scientists and artists from around the world whose work has made the world a better place.

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Article January 17, 2020

Gladstone Joins a $5.7 Million Initiative Focused on Single Ventricle Heart Defects

Funds will support five top research institutions to accelerate scientific discoveries and development of treatments for single ventricle heart defects.

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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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