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Gladstone Scientists Identify New Target for Combatting Alzheimer's Disease

May 7, 2008 - In a new study, published in today's Journal of Neuroscience, researchers in the laboratory of Lennart Mucke, MD, director of the Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease, have determined in mouse models that modulating the activity of enkephalin peptides in the brain might reduce the cognitive deficits seen in Alzheimer's disease.

 
Gladstone's Melanie Ott Receives UCSF Chancellor's 2008 Award for Public Service

April 2, 2008 - Melanie Ott, MD, Ph.D., Associate Investigator in the Gladstone Institute of Virology and Immunology, has received the 2008 Chancellor's Award for Public Service in the faculty/academic category and the 2008 Thomas N. Burbridge Award.

Mayor Proclaims
Gladstone Institutes Day
in San Francisco

March 31, 2008 – San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom has proclaimed Tuesday, April 1, as Gladstone Institutes Day in San Francisco.

 
Gladstone Scientists Identify Role of Tiny RNAs in Controlling Stem Cell Fate

March 5, 2008 – Researchers at the Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease and the University of California, San Francisco have identified for the first time how tiny genetic factors called microRNAs may influence the differentiation of pluripotent embryonic stem (ES) cells into cardiac muscle.

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