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Article December 11, 2019

Gladstone Investigator to Direct UCSF’s Graduate Program in Biological and Medical Informatics

Katie Pollard, PhD, new director of UCSF’s graduate program in biological and medical informatics, will prioritize teamwork, mentoring, and ties with UC Berkeley.

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Article December 5, 2019

Gladstone and Vir Biotechnology Collaborate to Advance Antiviral Therapeutics

New collaboration will support translation of research discoveries into antiviral therapies

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Article November 20, 2019

Machine, Meet Stem Cells

Gladstone researchers used a machine-learning approach to discover new ways of controlling the spatial organization of induced pluripotent stem cells.

News Release Research (Publication) Histology and Light Microscopy Core Stem Cell Core Conklin Lab McDevitt Lab AI Big Data CRISPR/Gene Editing Imaging

Article November 19, 2019

Predicting Alzheimer’s Disease-like Memory Loss before It Strikes

New study shows how patterns in brain activity can be an early predictor of Alzheimer’s symptoms.

News Release Research (Publication) Behavioral Core Alzheimer’s Disease Dementia Neurological Disease Center for Systems and Therapeutics Huang Lab Stem Cells/iPSCs

Article October 29, 2019

$4.5 Million to Study How Neurovascular Dysfunction Contributes to Neurodegeneration in Alzheimer’s Disease

Jorge Palop and Katerina Akassoglou received an NIH grant to study the link between neurovascular dysfunction and cognitive decline in Alzheimer’s disease.

News Release Research (Publication) Alzheimer’s Disease Neurological Disease Akassoglou Lab Palop Lab

Article October 24, 2019

Gladstone Investigators and Xyphos Partner to Successfully Adapt CAR-T Immunotherapy to Target the HIV Latent Reservoir

Gladstone Institutes and Xyphos Biosciences have shown that a cell-based immunotherapy, convertibleCAR®, can reduce the latent reservoir of virus in HIV-infected patients on anti-retroviral therapy

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Article July 31, 2019

The 2019 Ogawa-Yamanaka Stem Cell Prize Awarded to Gordon Keller

Keller’s work with pluripotent stem cells has led to a platform for disease modeling and regenerative medicine

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Article July 30, 2019

Regenerating the Heart after Tissue Damage

Gladstone scientists gain important insights into the cellular reprogramming process

News Release Research (Publication) Heart Failure Cardiovascular Disease Pollard Lab Srivastava Lab Big Data Stem Cells/iPSCs

Article July 29, 2019

Dragon Heart

First sequence of the Komodo dragon genome reveals clues about its evolution

News Release Research (Publication) Congenital Heart Disease Bruneau Lab Pollard Lab Big Data

Article July 19, 2019

A New Cellular Framework to Study Causes of Birth Defects

Gladstone scientists reveal how gene mutations can alter small groups of cells and result in congenital heart disease

News Release Research (Publication) Congenital Heart Disease Cardiovascular Disease Srivastava Lab Single Cell

Article May 24, 2019

Combination of Three Gene Mutations Results in Deadly Human Heart Disease

Research study first to show a heart defect caused by three genes acting together

News Release Research (Publication) Congenital Heart Disease Cardiovascular Disease Srivastava Lab CRISPR/Gene Editing Stem Cells/iPSCs

Article May 2, 2019

Chemical Modifiers Tag-Team to Regulate Essential Mechanism of Life

Basic science discovery explains a fundamental way human cells differ from yeast cells

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Article April 19, 2019

New Method to Detect Off-Target Effects of CRISPR

Scientists discover how to identify off-target damage caused by CRISPR genome editing

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Article April 1, 2019

Cell Press Partners with Gladstone Institutes to Support Ogawa-Yamanaka Prize

This annual prize supports the brightest scientists using cellular reprogramming for regenerative medicine

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Article March 19, 2019

New Study Resolves Debate about How the Brain’s Immune Cells Regenerate

Gladstone scientists investigate how microglial cells maintain their population

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