Gladstone in the News
July 19, 2024
San Francisco Chronicle—With the United States now experiencing a typical summer COVID surge, Gladstone Senior Investigator Nadia Roan helps break down how to make a personal decision about when to get your next vaccine.
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Gladstone in the News
March 4, 2024
Science News—In some people with long COVID, powerful immune players called T cells seem to go out of whack. In some long COVID patients, T cells that recognize SARS-CoV-2 can become exhausted, Nadia Roan's team reported in Nature Immunology in January. And scientists know that tired-out T cells can have trouble wiping out infection.
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Gladstone in the News
January 18, 2024
STAT—New research has identified proteins present in the blood of people with long COVID that could point the way to a much-needed diagnostic test and possibly to future therapeutic targets. “The dysregulation they observed is a bit complex, as some complement components go up and others go down, but overall the results suggest that complement pathways are abnormal in people with long COVID,” said Gladstone's Nadia Roan, the senior author of a Nature Immunology paper published earlier in January on immune response in long COVID.
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Gladstone in the News
January 12, 2024
San Francisco Chronicle—At least 10 percent of those who survive COVID continue to face debilitating symptoms months after the acute infection resolves. New research from the laboratory of Gladstone Senior Investigator Nadia Roan shows that individuals suffering Long Covid have a dysregulated immune response to the virus and evidence of T cell exhaustion, which may be due to the virus persisting within their bodies.
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January 11, 2024
Scientists at Gladstone Institutes and UC San Francisco analyzed immune cells in people with and without long COVID, making significant discoveries that will help answer questions about what causes the condition and how to treat it
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Gladstone in the News
May 3, 2023
San Francisco Chronicle—Gladstone Senior Investigator Nadia Roan explains that while prior vaccination or exposure to COVID-19 may confer long-term protection against serious disease, a booster shot with the bivalent vaccine will protect you for a few months against new infection.
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Gladstone in the News
December 10, 2022
San Francisco Chronicle—New SARS-CoV-2 subvariants are driving an increase in COVID case numbers around the world. Gladstone Investigator Nadia Roan explains that the subvariants have mutations that help them evade neutralizing antibodies, but stresses that getting the bivalent vaccine can still help strengthen immunity to the ever-changing virus.
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Gladstone in the News
October 20, 2022
ABC7 News—Senior Investigator Nadia Roan, PhD, says that a winter surge of infections from the highly transmissible new variants of SARS-CoV-2 currently emerging in the US is likely, but it remains unclear how bad it will be.
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Gladstone in the News
October 16, 2022
San Francisco Chronicle—The new bivalent COVID-19 booster shots are recommended for individuals age 5 and up who are at least two months past their last vaccine dose. Gladstone Investigator Nadia Roan explains that the bivalent boosters greatly increase the levels of antibodies that can prevent the Omicron variant from infecting cells.
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Gladstone in the News
September 10, 2022
San Francisco Chronicle—New COVID-19 booster shots targeting both the ancestral virus and omicron strains are now available. Gladstone Investigator Nadia Roan weighs in on when people should get the jab, based on the timing of their last dose and whether they’ve been recently infected.
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Gladstone in the News
July 19, 2022
NIH Director’s Blog—Recent work from the team of Gladstone Associate Investigator Nadia Roan, PhD, and their colleagues at The Wistar Institute is featured in this week's NIH Director's Blog. The work uncovers intriguing evidence for the role of sugars at the surface of immune cells in HIV infection.
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