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2018

Congratulations to Maria Telpoukhovskaia for receiving a Bluefield Postdoctoral Fellowship!

2017

Congratulations to Tara Tracy and Lay Kodama for receiving the Trainee Professional Development Award from the Society of Neuroscience to attend the 2017 Neuroscience meeting in Washington, DC.

Chao Wang and Michael Ward et al. published a new paper in Stem Cell Reports and described a high-throughput screening platform using iPSC-derived human neurons to screen for novel compounds that lower endogenous human tau, a key pathogenic factor in Alzheimer's disease and other tauopathies.

Congratulations to Faten Sayed for receiving a NIH Kirschstein-NRSA Predoctoral Fellowship!
Congratulations to Claire Clelland for receiving a Eli and Edythe Broad Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Fellowship!
Congratulations to Claire Clelland for receiving an Alzheimer's Association Clinician Scientist Fellowship!
Congratulations to Claire Clelland for receiving a NIH R25 Physician Scientist Fellowship!

Inflammatory Pathways Link to Obsessive Behaviors in a Common Form of Dementia
Gladstone scientists identify inflammatory pathways as a potential therapeutic target for frontotemporal dementia

Common Factor Links Neurodegenerative Disease in Young and Old
Gladstone and UCSF scientists discover shared characteristic among neurodegenerative diseases that occur across the lifespan.

Gladstone Names New Associate Director of Neuroscience
Li Gan's innovative research and admirable mentorship led to her appointment as associate director of the Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease.

 

2016

Gladstone Researcher Awarded Center Grant to Fund Dementia Research
Li Gan, PhD, a senior investigator at Gladstone, was awarded a multi-million dollar grant by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) to lead a national collaboration studying how the protein tau contributes to frontotemporal dementia.

Congratulations to Xu Chen for receiving a K99 grant from the NIH!
Congratulations to Tara Tracy for receiving an Alzheimer’s Disease Research Program Postdoctoral Fellowship from the BrightFocus Foundation!
Congratulations to Xu Chen for receiving the Alzheimer’s Association for Excellence in Alzheimer’s Research!

Considering Dementia from All Angles
Yadong Huang, MD, PhD, Lennart Mucke, MD, and Li Gan, PhD, are taking a comprehensive approach to dementia research, pursuing several potential causal factors of the disease in the hopes of discovering breakthrough treatments.

Scientist Discover a Missing Link between Tau and Memory Loss
Tara Tracy, PhD, and Li Gan, PhD, have uncovered how the protein tau prevents new memories from forming in Alzheimer’s disease.

 

2015

Congratulations to Maria Telpoukhovskaia for receiving a Bluefield Postdoctoral Fellowship!

Old Drug Offers New Hope to Treat Alzheimer’s Disease
By repurposing a prescription drug used to treat rheumatoid arthritis, researchers at the Gladstone Institutes successfully reversed tau-related symptoms in an animal model of dementia.

Congratulations to Li for receiving the Inge Grundke-Iqbal Award for Alzheimer’s Research! Press release
Congratulations to Peter Sohn for receiving the Alzheimer’s Association Award for Young Scientists!
Congratulations to Michael Ward for receiving a Gladstone Award for Scientific Excellence!

 

2014

Congratulations to Sakura Minami for receiving the Alzheimer’s Association Award for Young Scientists!
Congratulations to Sakura Minami for receiving a Gladstone Award for Scientific Excellence!

 

2013

Congratulations to Michael Ward for receiving the k08 Mentored Clinical Scientist Development Award from the National Institute of Health!
Congratulations to Michael Ward for receiving the American Brain Foundation Clinical Research Fellowship!
Congratulations to Sakura Minami for receiving a Gladstone Career Advancement Award!

 

2012

Congratulations to Sakura Minami and Tara Tracy on winning the Ruth L. Kirschstein NRSA Postdoctoral Fellowship from the National Institute of Health!
Congratulations to Grietje Krabbe for receiving the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Fellowship!

 

2011

Congratulations to Michael Ward on receiving the Bluefield Postdoctoral Fellowship! Press release