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March 27, 2023
Ritu Kumar, director of the Stem Cell Core, describes her research at Gladstone, the women who have mentored her throughout her career, and the changes she'd like to see for women in STEM
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Gladstone in the News
May 29, 2020
San Francisco Business Times—Early on in the pandemic, Gladstone Senior Investigator Jennifer Doudna, PhD, co-discoverer of CRISPR, recognized the need for safe, reliable, and rapid COVID-19 testing. She quickly mobilized a team of scientists from UC Berkeley, UC San Francisco, and elsewhere to develop a high-throughput detection assay and test vulnerable and at-risk populations in the Bay Area. Doudna was recently named one of the most influential women in Bay Area business by the San Francisco Business Times.
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Gladstone in the News
May 26, 2020
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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March 6, 2020
In 2016, Gladstone launched the Women’s Initiative with the mission to identify and address issues that affect women at Gladstone, and to foster a supportive network that connects them as they progress through their professional careers.
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August 12, 2016
Gladstone hosted a forum discussion that will lay the groundwork to solve the unique and complex needs of women in the organization.
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