Gladstone in the News
October 17, 2022
National Academy of Medicine—Katie Pollard, PhD, senior investigator and director of the Gladstone Institute of Data Science and Biotechnology, has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine, in recognition of her discovery of fast-evolving regions in the human genome associated with psychiatric diseases, and of her open-source software used worldwide by genome scientists.
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Gladstone in the News
July 19, 2021
New York Times—The microbiome plays a role in many autoimmune conditions, and some scientists believe that fecal transplants from individuals living in non-industrialized cultures may provide a solution. Katie Pollard, director of the Gladstone Institute of Data Science and Biotechnology, explains why it may not be that easy.
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February 8, 2017
Katherine Pollard, PhD, director of the convergence science initiative at the Gladstone Institutes, has been selected as a Chan Zuckerberg Investigator. As part of this 5-year appointment, Pollard will join the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub with 46 other world-renowned scientists, engineers, and technologists from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), University of California, Berkeley, and Stanford University.
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May 23, 2016
The White House invited Katherine Pollard to join the National Microbiome Initiative as a leader in the field of bioinformatics.
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January 15, 2016
Katherine Pollard shares science on big data and high-performance computing with an audience at Google as part of the Gladstone Open Classroom Talks series.
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November 13, 2015
The most influential “organ” in the human body is made up of foreign cells—six pounds worth of microorganisms. Katherine Pollard studies the human microbiome to learn how it influences health and disease.
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June 12, 2012
SAN FRANCISCO, CA—Scientists at the Gladstone Institutes today are announcing their role in an unprecedented collaboration organized by the National Institutes of Health, which used groundbreaking methods to vastly improve our understanding of bacteria that reside in and on the human body.
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