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Gladstone in the News July 19, 2021

You’re Missing Microbes. But Is “Rewilding” the Way to Get Them Back?

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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Article May 19, 2021

How COVID-19 Is Changing Academic Publishing

While the practice of placing papers on preprint servers ahead of peer review remains controversial in the scientific community worldwide, many Gladstone investigators are using bioRxiv to advance their research and get information out more quickly

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Article February 15, 2021

Gladstone Scientist Elected into Elite Bioengineering Community

Katie Pollard is recognized by the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering for her pioneering creation and use of statistical research tools

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Article October 15, 2020

Gladstone Investigators Receive 4D Nucleome Award from the NIH

Benoit Bruneau and Katie Pollard study DNA folding to identify the genetic causes of congenital heart disease

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Article October 12, 2020

Strong Women in STEM: A Conversation with Katie Pollard

In honor of Ada Lovelace Day, Katie Pollard discusses what it’s like to be a woman in STEM and how being an outsider has helped shape her career.

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Article July 21, 2020

Crunching the Numbers to Determine Patient Outcomes

With a tool capable of taking large sets of data and distilling it into patterns, researchers at Gladstone hope to better predict COVID-19 patient outcomes and improve patient care.

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Article June 30, 2020

New Genomic Atlas of the Developing Human Brain

Scientists at Gladstone and UCSF created a valuable new resource for studying the origins of neurodevelopmental disease.

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Video June 1, 2020

Exploring Human Microbes through Big Data

In this episode of the Newton Series, Katie Pollard shares how big data allows for deep exploration of the human microbiome.

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Gladstone in the News May 26, 2020

Bay Area Must Enable Economic, Equitable Recovery

San Francisco Chronicle—Katie Pollard, director of the Gladstone Institute of Data Science and Biotechnology, joined other Bay Area women scientists in an editorial on how the coronavirus pandemic has caused disproportionate challenges for women’s careers, and threatens to reinforce long-standing inequities in the STEM fields.

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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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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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Video March 5, 2020

Gender Equity in the Sciences

During Gladstone's 40th Anniversary Science Symposium, the Gladstone Women’s Initiative hosted a special panel discussion on building a more inclusive environment and advocating for gender parity in the scientific field.

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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 18, 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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