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2-Jun-2026

Gladstone launches Center for PhAIge Therapy to harness AI in the fight against drug-resistant infections

Gladstone Institutes
Grant and Award Announcement

Gladstone Institutes has received an initial award of $2 million from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), with additional funding of up to a total of $10 million available over the proposed 5-year project period. This grant will establish the Center for PhAIge Therapy, a research center that will develop new phage-based treatments for antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections.

2-Jun-2026

AI helps accelerate breast cancer diagnosis for high-risk women

University of California - San Francisco
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Women with abnormal mammograms often have to wait for weeks to find out whether they have breast cancer.

Now, researchers at UC San Francisco and UC Berkeley have found a way to help reduce the wait and the worry by using AI to quickly identify those who are most likely to have the disease. By triaging these patients, the AI-guided workflow takes women with abnormal scans through the diagnostic process — from imaging to evaluation and sometimes even biopsy — in a single day.