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December 15, 2010

Gladstone’s Shinya Yamanaka to Receive Warren Prize from Massachusetts General Hospital

SAN FRANCISCO, CA—December 16, 2010—The Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) announced today that Shinya Yamanaka, MD, PhD, will receive the 2011 Warren Triennial Prize. Dr. Yamanaka discovered a method to convert adult cells into cells with characteristics of embryonic stem cells.

November 30, 2010

Research Brings Hope for This World AIDS Day

SAN FRANCISCO, CA—December 1, 2010—For the AIDS community, Thanksgiving came a bit early this year, and after many difficult years, three announcements give hope and reason for celebration during this year's World AIDS Day.

Article November 27, 2010

Gene Therapy Prevents Memory Problems in Mice with Alzheimer’s Disease

SAN FRANCISCO, CA—Scientists at the Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease (GIND) in San Francisco have discovered a new strategy to prevent memory deficits in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease.

Alzheimer’s Disease Mucke Lab

November 23, 2010

Deciphering How CD4 T Cells Die During HIV Infection

SAN FRANCISCO, CA—Scientists at Gladstone Institute of Virology and Immunology have solved a long-standing mystery about HIV infection—namely how HIV promotes the death of CD4 T cells. It is the loss of this critical subset of immune cells that leads to the development of AIDS.

Greene Lab HIV/AIDS

November 22, 2010

Use of HIV Medications Reduces Risk of HIV Infection in Uninfected People

San Francisco, CA—In a finding with the potential to fundamentally change strategies to slow the global HIV epidemic, a new study called iPrEx shows that individuals at high risk for HIV infection who took a single daily tablet containing two widely used HIV medications, emtricitabine and tenofov

Grant Lab HIV/AIDS

November 1, 2010

New Center Looks at How Human Systems Function or Fail

SAN FRANCISCO, CA—November 2, 2010—A new center called the National Resource for Network Biology (NRNB) will help researchers and clinicians analyze an ever-growing wealth of complex biological data and apply that knowledge to real problems and diseases.

Article October 12, 2010

Gladstone Scientists Uncover Novel Mechanism for the Major Genetic Risk Factor of Alzheimer’s Disease

SAN FRANCISCO, CA—Alzheimer's disease is an extremely complicated disease. Several proteins seem to be involved in its cause and progression.

Alzheimer’s Disease Huang Lab

October 9, 2010

Gladstone Scientists Link Hepatitis C Virus Infection to Fat Enzyme in Liver Cells

SAN FRANCISCO, CA—October 10, 2010—Scientists at the Gladstone Institute of Virology and Immunology (GIVI) have found that an enzyme associated with the storage of fat in the liver is required for the infectious activity of the hepatitis C virus (HCV).

September 8, 2010

Strategy Discovered to Prevent Alzheimer-associated Traffic Jams in the Brain

SAN FRANCISCO, CA—Amyloid beta (Αβ) proteins, widely thought to cause Alzheimer's disease, block the transport of vital cargoes inside brain cells.

Alzheimer’s Disease Mucke Lab

August 4, 2010

Gladstone Scientists Discover New Method for Regenerating Heart Muscle by Direct Reprogramming

SAN FRANCISCO, CA—Scientists at the Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease (GICD) have found a new way to make beating heart cells from the body's own cells that could help regenerate damaged hearts.

Srivastava Lab Stem Cells/iPSCs

July 20, 2010

Gladstone and Lundbeck Collaborate to Study Neurovascular Disease and Identify Novel Therapeutic Strategies

SAN FRANCISCO, CA—The Gladstone Institutes and the international pharmaceutical company H. Lundbeck A/S have announced a collaborative research agreement to study and identify therapeutic candidates for neurological diseases.

Akassoglou Lab Multiple Sclerosis

Article July 6, 2010

Gladstone Scientists Establish Link Between Brain Activity and Parkinson’s Disease Symptoms

SAN FRANCISCO, CA—Scientists at the Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease (GIND) and Stanford University have shown how key circuits in the brain control movement.

Parkinson’s Disease Kreitzer Lab Optogenetics

June 17, 2010

Gladstone’s Shinya Yamanaka Wins Kyoto Prize

SAN FRANCISCO, CA—Shinya Yamanaka, MD, PhD, of the Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease (GICD) and Kyoto University, has won the 2010 Kyoto Prize for Advanced Technology.

Article June 14, 2010

Gladstone and Institute for Systems Biology Collaborate to Discover New Genes Associated With the Onset of Huntington’s Disease

SAN FRANCISCO, CA—June 15, 2010—The Institute for Systems Biology (ISB) of Seattle, WA, is collaborating with the Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease (GIND) and its Taube-Koret Center for Huntington's Disease Research to use whole-genome sequencing to identify genes and novel drug targets

Huntington’s Disease

April 19, 2010

Gladstone’s Deepak Srivastava Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

SAN FRANCISCO, CA—April 20, 2010—Deepak Srivastava, MD, director of the Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease and Professor of Pediatrics and Biochemistry at UCSF, has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Srivastava joins former Gladstone president Robert W.

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