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A roundup of press coverage, awards, and announcements featuring our research and our people. The stories below trace our work as it has reached the wider world, from new antiviral strategies and HIV cure research to the role of noise in gene expression, alongside the honors and milestones our lab members have earned along the way.

Medical Milestones Are Underway at San Francisco’s Gladstone Institutes. Nob Hill Gazette. November 3, 2022.

New Antiviral Therapy May Block COVID-19 Transmission. PR Newswire. September 9, 2022.

Throwing Drug Resistance for a Loop. PR Newswire. May 12, 2022.

Descartes-Huygens Prize: Maike Hansen rewarded for her work in collaboration with researchers from the Institut Cochin. Institut Cochin. April 26, 2022.

Three Ways to Strengthen a Collaborative Culture. APQC. February 3, 2022.

New COVID-19 Nasal Spray Therapy Aims to “Reduce Viral Load in the Lungs by 100-Fold”. ABC7 San Francisco. December 14, 2021.

Virus-Hijacking COVID-19 Drug from Gladstone Researchers Slow Down Variants, Expects Clinical Trial Early Next Year. Business Insider. December 13, 2021.

A New Class of Antiviral Therapy Could Treat COVID-19. PR Newswire. December 9, 2021.

How Close Are We to a Cure for HIV? Gladstone News. December 1, 2021.

Gladstone Investigators Win NIH Director’s Awards. PR Newswire. October 6, 2021.

“Noisy” Gene Expression Plays Key Role in Development and May Help Improve Stem Cell Therapies. Business Insider. July 22, 2021.

Research Associates in Their Own Words. Gladstone News. May 10, 2021.

Can We Create Vaccines That Mutate and Spread? TedMed. October 30, 2020.

Herpesviruses Hedge Their Bets to Optimize Survival. Business Insider. July 7, 2020.

Gladstone Investigator Receives an Avant-Garde Award. Gladstone. June 29, 2020.

Gladstone Postdoc Receives Support from The Pew Charitable Trusts. Gladstone. June 16, 2020.

Data-Driven Discovery. Gladstone. April 22, 2020.

Gladstone Institutes Responds to COVID-19 Pandemic. PR Newswire. March 22, 2020.

Scientists See Promising Leads in Battle Against HIV. PEW November 30, 2018.

Vaccines of the future could be as contagious as viruses. Popular Science. June 5, 2017.

Journal Club: Can transmissible vaccines have a major role in eradicating disease? PNAS. November 14, 2016

To Fight a Virus, Get a Virus: Military Bets on Mutant Pathogen. Bloomberg News. July 14, 2016.

Gladstone Scientists Honored as Finalists for the Blavatnik Awards. Gladstone News. June 1, 2016.

How to Make a Virus Defeat Itself. Gladstone News. May 17, 2016

Cells in Living Things Fight Noise with Noise, Scientific American, May 27, 2014.

Isolated cases raise hopes of cure for HIV, San Francisco Chronicle, October 1, 2013.

Gladstone Scientists Win $12.5M in Prestigious Grant Awards, New Funds for HIV/AIDS Research May Help Cure Our Era’s Worst Epidemic. UCSF News, September 30, 2013

Viruses engineered to attack themselves, San Francisco Chronicle, January 2013.

Gladstone scientists identify powerful infection strategy of widespread and potentially lethal virus, AAAS, American Academy for the Advancement of Science, December 2012.

Piggyback Virus Could Curb HIV Pandemic, Wired, March 2011

Scientists find potential "off-switch" for HIV, News at Princeton, January 2007.

Random Gene Expression May Drive HIV into Hiding, Howard Hughes Medical Institute News, July 2005.

The Virus Hijacker, The Times of London, August 2004.