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Article June 17, 2026

Christina Theodoris Honored in Inaugural Cohort of Young American Scientists

Scientific American recognizes Theodoris for her pioneering work developing artificial intelligence models to find treatments for an array of diseases.

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Article April 27, 2026

How AI Is Pointing Scientists in New Directions and Leading to Novel Drug Targets

Gladstone scientists are developing novel AI models to predict what goes wrong in disease—and how to fix it.

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Video April 27, 2026

This Is AI Predicting New Ways to Treat Disease

How do brain cells change with age? How are liver cells impacted when someone takes a new medicine? What happens to lung cells after decades of smoking?

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Article April 2, 2026

New AI Model Predicts How Cells Age

Trained on data spanning the human lifespan, a new tool developed at Gladstone can predict genes associated with aging and age-related diseases.

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Article March 23, 2026

How AI Is Pinpointing the Genetic Cause of Disease

Scientists at Gladstone are combining AI models with cutting-edge lab tools to finally make sense of the human genome.

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Article February 18, 2026

How AI Is Accelerating Life-Saving Discovery

Gladstone scientists are developing new AI tools that promise to revolutionize how science is done and lead to new treatments for the most devastating diseases.

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Gladstone in the News October 30, 2025

The Silicon Cell

Science—AI cell models that emulate their living counterparts hold potential to transform biomedicine, and Gladstone Investigator Christina Theodoris has been at the forefront of this effort with her platform for predicting gene interactions. (Subscription required.)

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Article February 25, 2025

Matters of the Heart: A Conversation with Gladstone’s Benoit Bruneau

Bruneau, director of the Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, shares exciting recent advances in heart research and talks about the impact of predictive AI.

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Gladstone in the News February 19, 2025

Biggest-Ever AI Biology Model Writes DNA on Demand

Nature—Gladstone Assistant Investigator Christina Theodoris salutes the biggest-ever AI biology model as a significant step towards understanding how DNA regulates gene expression.

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Gladstone in the News November 14, 2024

Learning the Language of DNA

Science—In this Perspective article in Science, Gladstone investigator Christina Theodoris shares insights on a new AI model known as Evo that can deduce how bacterial and viral genomes operate—and then use that information to design new proteins and even whole microbial genomes. (Subscription required.)

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Gladstone in the News March 10, 2024

A.I. Is Learning What It Means to Be Alive

New York Times—Several new artificial intelligence-powered programs are setting their sights on the fundamentals of biology. They are not simply tidying up the information that biologists are collecting. They are making discoveries about how genes work and how cells develop. Gladstone Assistant Investigator Christina Theodoris shares her journey of creating the deep learning model GeneFormer.

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Gladstone in the News May 31, 2023

AI Identifies Gene Interactions to Speed Up Search for Treatment Targets

Nature Podcast—Assistant Investigator Christina Theodoris explains how she and her collaborators used artificial intelligence to uncover how genes work together to control cells and tissues, even in situations such as rare diseases where data are in limited supply.

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Article May 31, 2023

Artificial Intelligence System Predicts Consequences of Gene Modifications

Researchers trained a computer model to understand the connections between thousands of genes—and pinpoint how those connections go awry in human disease

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Article September 6, 2022

Where Computation and Experimentation Collide

Christina Theodoris joins Gladstone as an assistant investigator to find new therapies for people with life-threatening cardiovascular diseases

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Article December 10, 2020

A Potential Therapy for One of the Leading Causes of Heart Disease

A drug candidate found by Gladstone researchers could help prevent tens of thousands of heart surgeries every year

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