About the research project The paper's main authors
include Gladstone's Nadia R. Roan (co-first author) and Warner C. Greene (co-last author), Nargis Kohgadai (co-first author) from UCSF, and Jan Münch (co-last author) and Nathallie Sandi - Monroy (co-first author) from Ulm University.
Other Gladstone colleagues who are also members of the AAP
include Gladstone President, R. Sanders Williams, MD; Senior Investigator and President Emeritus Robert W. Mahley, MD, PhD; Senior Investigator Lennart Mucke, MD, who directs neurological research at Gladstone, and Senior Investigator Eric Verdin involved in virology and immunology research.
The research team, which
included Gladstone Postdoctoral Scholar Haixia Wang, PhD, the study's lead author, identified a four - molecule chemical cocktail that could guide the skin cells into becoming more like heart cells.
The research team
included Gladstone's Sang - Won Min, Seo - Hyun Cho, Yungui Zhou, Sebastian Schroeder and Melanie Ott; UCSF's William Seeley and Eric Huang; Vahram Haroutunian of Mt. Sinai School of Medicine; Chandran Mukherjee, David Meyers and Philip Cole of Johns Hopkins; Yong Shen of Haldeman Laboratory; and Eliezer Masliah of UC San Diego.
Many universities and research institutes have been beneficiaries,
including Gladstone, Harvard University, and the University of California, San Francisco.
The team also
included Gladstone's Jens Brodbeck, Aaron Daub, Punita Sharma, and Steven Finkbeiner.
Among other projects, the organization funds BAAM, which meets semiannually, rotating across host institutions,
including Gladstone Institutes / UC San Francisco, Stanford University, UC Berkeley and the Buck Institute.
I am, of course, particularly pleased that they have
included Gladstone trainee and current senior investigator Shinya Yamanaka in this impressive group.
But in their latest research, Dr. Finkbeiner and his research team,
including Gladstone Staff Research Scientist Gaia Skibinski, have focused their attention on LRRK2 — the most common genetic cause of Parkinson's.
Gladstone also offers the leisure traveller plenty to explore,
including the Gladstone Maratime Museum which explores the Coral Coast and Capricorn coast.
Monday night a cluster of galleries,
including Gladstone, Regen Projects, and others, threw a dinner at an 18th - century estate outside of town, one that concluded with guests indulging in Davidoff cigars in a gold flake - lacquered parlor room.
Not exact matches
Distinguished speakers at Cogers» debates
included Disraeli and
Gladstone.
At the
Gladstone, cardiovascular scientist Robert Mahley, working with a team
including neuroscientist Yadong Huang, has identified small «corrector» molecules that modify the structure of ApoE4 protein to one more like that of ApoE3, thereby reducing abnormal fragmentation.
Other investigators on the study
include Kathryn Monroe, Zhiyuan Yang, and Isa Muñoz - Arias from the
Gladstone Institutes, and David Levy from New York University College of Dentistry.
Those existing ports
include Abbot Point, where India's Adani Group and compatriot GVK plan a huge coal terminal expansion, and
Gladstone, where ship traffic is set to increase sharply from 2015 as huge new liquefied natural gas plants start exports.
The first group of winners
includes Cornelia I. Bargmann of Rockefeller University in New York City; David Botstein of Princeton University; Lewis C. Cantley of Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City; Hans Clevers of the Hubrecht Institute in the Netherlands; Napoleone Ferrara of the University of California, San Diego; Titia de Lange of Rockefeller University; Eric S. Lander of Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge; Charles L. Sawyers of Memorial Sloan - Kettering Cancer Center in New York City; Bert Vogelstein of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland; Robert A. Weinberg of MIT; and the 2012 Nobel laureate Shinya Yamanaka of Kyoto University and the
Gladstone Institutes in San Francisco.
Gladstone has established policies governing starting postdoc salary, yearly increases, cost - of - living adjustments, and benefits,
including retirement.
«With few exceptions, our postdocs receive the exact same benefits as everyone else at
Gladstone, which
includes employer - paid medical, dental, and vision, and also covers eligible dependents or domestic partners,» said John LeViathan, postdoctoral fellows advisor and human resources manager.
Other
Gladstone scientists on the study
include Nik Mendoza - Camacho, Tracy Hookway, Casey Gifford, and Praveen Taneja.
Other scientists who participated in this research
include Sadia Maqsood, William Harkcom, Wei Li, and Anthony Sauve from Weill Cornell, and Jing - Yi Huang and Yong Pan from the
Gladstone Institutes.
Other
Gladstone investigators
include Xiajing Wang, Mingliang Zhang, Tianhua Ma, Tao Xu, and Shibing Tang.
Other
Gladstone researchers on the study
include Jason A. Neidleman, Nargis Kohgadai, and Karen S. Jang.
Neurological research at
Gladstone focuses on a host of devastating conditions,
including Alzheimer's, frontotemporal dementia (FTD), Parkinson's and Huntington's disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, or Lou Gehrig's disease) and multiple sclerosis.
Since 1993,
Gladstone has hosted the Distinguished Lecture Series, which features researchers who have made significant contributions to science and medicine,
including many Nobel laureates.
Other
Gladstone scientists on the study
include Ian Spencer, Luke Judge, Mohammad Mandegar, Tamer Mohammed, Alice Sheehan, Annie Truong, Mike Saxton, Jennie Yoo, Deepak Srivastava, and Po - Lin So.
Scientists on the KSHV study
include Zoe Davis, Erik Verschueren, Gwendolyn Jang, Kevin Kleffman, Jeffrey Johnson, Jimin Park, John Von Dollen, M. Cyrus Maher, Tasha Johnson, William Newton, Stefanie Jäger, Michael Shales, Julie Horner, and Ryan Hernandez from the
Gladstone Institutes, UC Berkeley, UCSF, and Thermo Fisher Scientific.
Other researchers on the HCV study
include Erik Verschueren, Jeffrey Johnson, John Von Dollen, Tasha Johnson, Billy Newton, Priya Shah, and Julie Horner from
Gladstone, UCSF, QB3, and Thermo Fisher Scientific.
Authors of this study also
include Mingjian Fei, Hye - Sook Kwon, Chia - Lin Tsou, David E. Gordon, Jeffrey Johnson, and Nevan Krogan from
Gladstone, as well as Herb Kasler, Che - Ping Ng, and Eric Verdin from the The Buck Institute for Research on Aging.
Other authors of this study
include Katerina Akassoglou, Kai Liu, Min Xie, Jae Kyu Ryu, Ke Li, Tianhua Ma, Haixia Wang, Saiyong Zhu, Nan Cao, and Yu Zhang from
Gladstone; Edward M. Driggers, Kelly M. Stewart, and Dongwei Zhu from Agios Pharmaceuticals; and Chen Dong, Xiaohu Wang, and Lu Ni from Tsinghua University in China.
Other scientists,
including those at the
Gladstone Institutes, pioneered a related technology called direct cellular reprogramming.
Gladstone GO committee chairs
include Jessie Carr, Frances Cho, Alexandra Clemente, Yvanka De Soysa, Stephanie Holden, Emily Jones, Ariel Kauss, Kathleen Keough, Ashley Libby, Sarah McMahon, Stephanie Moquin, Ramsey Najm, and Faten Sayed.
Other authors of the study
include Parinaz Fozouni, Sean Thomas, and Hendrik Sy from
Gladstone, as well as Qiang Zhang and Ming - Ming Zhou from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
An international team of scientists contributed to this research,
including Jennifer Yokoyama, of UCSF; Lei Zhu, of UCSF and
Gladstone; Lauren Broestl, of UCSF; Kurtresha Worden of
Gladstone and UCSF; Dan Wang, of UCSF; Virginia Sturm, of UCSF; Daniel Kim of
Gladstone; Eric Klein of UCLA; Gui - Qiu Yu, of
Gladstone; Kaitlyn Ho of
Gladstone; Kirsten Eilertson of
Gladstone; Lei Yu, of Rush University Medical Center; Makoto Kuro - o of UT Southwestern Medical Center and Jichi Medical University; Philip De Jager, of Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School and the Broad Institute; Giovanni Coppola, of UCLA; Gary Small, of UCLA; David Bennett, of Rush; Joel Kramer, of UCSF; Carmela Abraham, of Boston University; and Bruce Miller, of UCSF.
Other researchers on the study
include Max Wang, Kaitlyn Ho, Daniel Kim, Xin Wang, Weikun Guo, Jing Kang, Gui - Qiu Yu, Edward Hsiao, Nino Devidze, Dena Dubal, and Bruce Conklin from the
Gladstone Institutes, and Anthony Adame and Eliezer Masliah from the University of California, San Diego.
Inspired by a grandfather who had Alzheimer's disease, Dr. Mucke founded
Gladstone's neurological research program 15 years ago and today leads more than 100 students, postdocs, research scientists and principal investigators in the search for new understanding of and therapies for some of the world's most devastating illnesses —
including Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, ALS, and multiple sclerosis.
Other authors of this resource article
include Nandhini Raman at
Gladstone; Rajaa Hussien, Brandon Aguilar Rodriguez, Joshua Vasquez, Matthew H. Spitzer, and Joseph M. McCune at UCSF; Trambak Banerjee and Gourab Mukherjee at USC; Nicole H. Lazarus, Eugene C. Butcher, Ann M. Arvin, and Nandini Sen at Stanford; and Jennifer J. Jones and Christina Ochsenbauer at the UAB at Birmingham.
OPGA oversees all activities regarding
Gladstone's postdocs,
including helping them with career and professional development, mentoring, employee relations, and conflict resolution issues.
With the aid of leadership and postdocs across
Gladstone, GPAC has accomplished many missions,
including establishing mentoring and childcare assistance programs, holding career development panels and workshops, adopting individual development plans, and founding the Exploring Careers in Industry and Technology (ExCITe) program and career exploration series which enable our trainees to learn and explore various PhD career options in peer teams.
Other researchers on the study
include Tianhua Ma, Kai Liu, Shaohua Xu, Yu Zhang, and Min Xie from the
Gladstone Institutes.
Other scientists who participated in this research at
Gladstone include Pascal Sanchez, PhD, Alexxai Kravitz, PhD, Xin Wang, Kaitlyn Ho, Kirsten Eilertson, PhD, Nino Devidze, PhD, and Anatol Kreitzer, PhD.
Other
Gladstone scientists will serve as scientific partners (Katherine Pollard, PhD, Todd McDevitt, PhD, Nevan Krogan, PhD) or founding employees of the company,
including Kathy Ivey, PhD, former director of the
Gladstone Stem Cell Core and the new director of research operations at Tenaya.
Other collaborators
include Xinxing Yu, UCSF Division of Geriatrics, San Francisco, CA; Philip Gut,
Gladstone Institute of Virology and Immunology, San Francisco, CA; and Yu Huang and Saptarsi Haldar from the
Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, San Francisco, CA.
Other scientists who participated in this research at
Gladstone include Natacha Le Moan, PhD, Christian Schachtrup, PhD, Dimitrios Davalos, PhD, and Eirini Vagena.
Other
Gladstone scientists on the study
include Emily Jones, Yuan - Hung Lin, Seo Yeon Yoon, Leslie Tong, Philip Nova, and Jessie Carr.
Scientific co-founders of the company
include Srivastava and
Gladstone Investigators Benoit Bruneau, PhD, Bruce Conklin, MD, Sheng Ding, PhD, and Saptarsi Haldar, MD, as well as Eric Olson, PhD, from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.
Other scientists who participated in this research at
Gladstone include Giao Hang, PhD, Kaitlyn Ho, Nino Devidze, PhD, and Anatol Kreitzer, PhD.
Others who participated in this research at
Gladstone include Leslie Tong, Maureen Balestra, Robyn Javier, Yaisa Andrews - Zwilling, PhD, Gang Li, PhD, David Walker, William Zhang and Anatol Kreitzer, PhD.
Other scientists who participated in this research
include Biljana Djukic, Anna Gillespie, Seo Yeon Yoon, Max Wang, Olivia Zhang, and Johanna Knoferle from
Gladstone Institutes, and Christine Arnold, John Rubenstein, and Arturo Alvarez - Buylla from UCSF.
Other investigators on the study
include Lauren Shields, Bryce Mendelsohn, Dominik Haddad, Wei Lin, and Hwajin Kim from the
Gladstone Institutes; Akos Gerencser and Martin Brand from the Buck Institute for Research on Aging; and Robert Edwards from the University of California San Francisco.
«I am pleased that scientists around the world are using this technology to search for solutions for many diseases,
including ALS,» said Dr. Yamanaka, who is also a professor of anatomy at the University of California, San Francisco, with which
Gladstone is affiliated.