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Article February 8, 2017

Pollard Selected as Chan Zuckerberg Investigator

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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Article December 8, 2016

Katherine Pollard Promoted to Director of Gladstone’s Convergence Zone

Katherine Pollard’s expertise, success, and vision fueled her promotion to director of Gladstone’s Convergence Zone.

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Article October 17, 2016

Strain-Level Profiling Yields New Insights into Mother-Infant Microbiomes

Direct microbial sequencing of environmental samples, such as from ocean water, hospital surfaces, and the human gut, have illuminated the vast number of microbes present in our world.

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Article May 23, 2016

Pollard Advises White House’s New Microbiome Initiative

The White House invited Katherine Pollard to join the National Microbiome Initiative as a leader in the field of bioinformatics.

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Article May 16, 2016

Gladstone Promotes an Inclusive Scientific Community with “Out in Science”

Gladstone showcases the careers and successes of LGBTQ scientists in an annual interactive discussion panel.

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Article May 13, 2016

The Next Generation of Precision Medicine

In their pursuit of cures for debilitating diseases, Gladstone scientists are approaching precision medicine from new angles, researching the microbiome and protein networks that are critical for human biology.

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Article April 4, 2016

New Tool Enables Scientists to Interpret “Dark Matter” DNA

Katherine Pollard’s lab has invented a novel way to read and interpret the human genome. This technology opens the door to identifying drug targets that could treat genetic diseases.

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Article January 15, 2016

Katherine Pollard Presents at Google in Gladstone’s New Series of Open Classroom Talks

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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Article November 13, 2015

Exploring Our Bacterial Ecosystem

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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Article October 14, 2015

Gladstone Teams Renew Federal Funding for Research on Congenital Heart Disease

Gladstone has received funding from the National Institutes of Health to continue and expand two exciting projects in cardiovascular research. The funding, totaling more than $6.8 million, supports two teams of scientists and their research on congenital heart disease.

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Article July 9, 2015

Gladstone Scientists Team Up to Attack Calcification in the Heart

Collaborations have been key to Gladstone’s scientific success since its founding, and its community believes that the biggest challenges in science are better met by bringing together researchers with diverse backgrounds.

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Article March 3, 2015

Mapping the Gut Microbiome to Better Understand Its Role in Obesity

Katherine Pollard uses innovative statistical analyses to shed new light on the connection between gut bacteria, metabolism, and BMI.

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Article November 10, 2013

Fast-Mutating DNA Sequences Shape Early Development; Guided Evolution of Uniquely Human Traits

SAN FRANCISCO, CA—What does it mean to be human? According to scientists the key lies, ultimately, in the billions of lines of genetic code that comprise the human genome. The problem, however, has been deciphering that code.

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October 7, 2013

Two Gladstone Scientists Inducted into the California Academy of Sciences

SAN FRANCISCO, CA—In an unprecedented move, the California Academy of Sciences today will induct two scientists from the Gladstone Institutes’, President R. Sanders “Sandy” Williams, MD, and Investigator Katherine Pollard, PhD, as Academy Fellows, bestowing yet another honor on two of San Francisco's most esteemed scientists.

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Article June 12, 2012

Consortium of Scientists Map the Human Body’s Bacterial Ecosystem

Scientists at 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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