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Gladstone in the News December 15, 2021

New COVID-19 Nasal Spray Therapy Aims to ‟Reduce Viral Load in the Lungs by 100-Fold”

abc7 NEWS—Senior Investigator Leor Weinberger, PhD, and Research Investigator Sonali Chaturvedi, PhD, explain their work on a therapy that sharply reduces viral load in the nose of hamsters after a single administration and could add a promising new tool to the therapeutic arsenal against COVID-19.

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Gladstone in the News December 14, 2021

Virus-Hijacking COVID-19 Drug from Gladstone Researchers Slows Down Variants, Expects Clinical Trial Early Next Year

San Francisco Business Times—Senior Investigator Leor Weinberger, PhD, pioneered a new class of antivirals called therapeutic interfering particles (TIPs), which were recently shown to be effective against SARS-CoV-2 in animal models. The approach is now being developed by a startup company and will be headed to clinical trials.

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Article December 9, 2021

A New Class of Antiviral Therapy Could Treat COVID-19

Gladstone scientists develop a single-dose intranasal treatment that is effective against variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus

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Article December 1, 2021

How Close Are We to a Cure for HIV?

Researchers at Gladstone Institutes focus on innovative strategies that could finally allow people living with HIV to stop taking daily medications

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Article October 6, 2021

Gladstone Investigators Win NIH Director’s Awards

The awards will support high-risk, high-reward research into a fundamentally new type of antiviral and a molecular strategy to fight cancer

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Article July 22, 2021

“Noisy” Gene Expression Plays Key Role in Development and May Help Improve Stem Cell Therapies

Gladstone researchers discover a fundamental mechanism that appears to speed the change of stem cells into other cell types

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Article May 10, 2021

Research Associates in Their Own Words

Three Gladstone research associates describe their work and why they love working at Gladstone

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Gladstone in the News October 30, 2020

Can We Create Vaccines That Mutate and Spread?

TED—In a March talk selected this week for the TED homepage, Senior Investigator Leor Weinberger, PhD, describes an intriguing type of vaccine his lab is developing and that, like the viruses it aims to neutralize, can mutate and spread from person to person.

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Article July 6, 2020

Herpesviruses Hedge Their Bets to Optimize Survival

Varying levels of proteins in cytomegalovirus particles help the virus survive in different conditions.

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Article June 28, 2020

Gladstone Investigator Receives an Avant-Garde Award

Leor Weinberger is selected by the National Institute on Drug Abuse for his innovative HIV research

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Article June 16, 2020

Gladstone Postdoc Receives Support from The Pew Charitable Trusts

Gustavo Vasen selected as a 2020 Pew Latin American Fellow in the Biomedical Sciences

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Gladstone in the News May 5, 2020

Rallying to the Fight against COVID-19

New York Academy of Sciences—New York Academy of Sciences: Many winners of the NYAS Blavatnik Award for Young Scientists have redirected their research efforts to focus on COVID-19. These include Gladstone Senior Investigators Leor Weinberger and Nevan Krogan.

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Gladstone in the News March 25, 2020

Gladstone Scientists Respond to Coronavirus Pandemic

The Stem Cellar—Gladstone Investigators Jennifer Doudna, Melanie Ott, Nevan Krogan, Warner Greene, and Leor Weinberger team up to develop an effective approach to diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of COVID-19.

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Article March 20, 2020

Gladstone Institutes Responds to COVID-19 Pandemic

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Gladstone scientists have rapidly pivoted the focus of their research labs to the novel virus, SARS-CoV-2.

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Article November 25, 2019

Carving New Paths in the Fight against HIV

Gladstone scientists are taking a variety of approaches to find a cure for HIV

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