good morning. happy valentine's day. my name is bob, the chief operating officer at the institute and mayor breed and members of the press on behalf of the gladstones trustees, founding president and our gladstones community. we are honored to have you join us today as we talk about the expansion project that we have.

our focus today is to provide you an update on the remarkable work being done here at gladstones and also talking about how we have an expanded presence here at the mission bay. over 40 years ago, the gladstones institute, the research organization was established to pursue the mission for transformative biomedical research. another part of the city the san francisco general hospital where we studied cardiovascular disease and we are at ground zero when hiv and aids broke out. we are pursuing a cure still today. now we are working everyday to find better ways to

find and treat and prevent better course and heart disease, covid, and alzheimer's and hiv. back in 2004, when this particular building we are in today, it's the second building at mission bay. the other building being eu -- ucsf, it was a private institute at gladstones but both non-profits and dynamic part to what it is no in the mission bay community. two non-profits and in the development that we are now in, we couldn't have done this alone. we have wonderful partners and our civic leaders today and we thank you for your vision for what we have. like this, the symbol of the san

francisco flag, mission bay is regenerated. you may know that silicon valley sparked the development of the silicon chip. the law says that every two years, the chip doubles. i postulate that there is a glad stones wall. that law is that each square footage that is added is the exponential impact of what that research does. so we are here today to announce our plans to expand, and if it goes according to plan a few years from now, we'll see a new building that be host to our research scientist. you will hear about that in a moment. we

are also glad to have a representative here and was at the university and former intern who will take you to his story here at gladstones. we are also happy to have many of the representatives and executive officer of the community investment and infrastructure to join us to speak more about what this means and the impact to san francisco and the mission bay. first, mayor breed, welcome to gladstones. [ applause ] mayor london breed: all right. i'm first up, huh? many of you may not know but i was a chemistry major. i thought i was going to discover the next big elements on the periodic table of the elements, but i also thought i was going to make my own make-up line and it would basically take over the world.

unfortunately i was a clumsy chemist and spilling chloride all over the lab, dropping liquid nitrogen here and there. i decided i better leave it to the professionals, the chemist who really have steady hands and patience to do this incredible work. i knew it was more about fun, but chemistry can be fun as we were talking earlier today on the tour. we are celebrating valentine's day today and it was great to be able to see a stem cell heart and on skin which is transformative. what's happened in san francisco what i have said time and time again, the life sciences and all the great things that are occurring especially around the mission bay community, it's changing the world. it's saving lives. when i think about our economic recovery it's so critical to the

future of our city. i am looking forward to the work that gladstones will be doing because it includes 75,000 new square feet of the already 200,000 square feet that exist now. they will add an additional 12-15 labs and employ over 200 more people. that's more work hopefully moving towards a real cure for so many of the different things that many of us may have been impacted by personally. i can't wait for the expansion and excitement of what this will bring. we are talking about a company that has been here in san francisco since 1979, in the height of what we were dealing with in terms of hiv/aids epidemic. when we think about how far on what they have done and what they will do, it is transformative of this city.

the area and including ucsf and just dropped off 25,000 square feet of new space for biotech and lab at the mission bay, i can't help but get excited. i want to put a little bit of a perspective here as a mayor, i want people to come back to the office, but this is not a field that you have the luxury of working from home. you have to be there, you have to load up all the different samples and testings and work directly in this location. from my perspective, this is the future. this is the future of san francisco. we see an office vacancy rate of over 22%, but as it relates to to the life sciences, it's not even at 5%. we know there is a need for this kind of space, so we as a city are going to be making it a lot easier to not only expand, but

to also transform other spaces throughout this city so they can be used for the same purpose. this life breaking science or this ground breaking science life saving, i'm trying to figure out the right words, but, ground breaking life saving sciences developing here in san francisco, is going to make such a tremendous difference and we all know that. today i'm really excited about this expansion and the work we are doing together, and i look forward when we are able to come back here to cut the ribbon and open this space. who knows, maybe a cure for alzheimer's or some of the other great things we are working on in this lab here, will be introduced at that time. i also want to say that i'm really excited to know that two nobel prize winners are out of

gladstones. they are based out of gladstones for chemistry which i deviated from, as well as medicine. i know there is a future in life sciences where we are going to see ground breaking transformative work that is truly going to change lives for the better right here in the heart of san francisco. you so much. [ applause ] >> >> >> thank you, mayor breed, we really appreciate your leadership throughout this city and especially for science and medicine. my name is depac and i have the privilege of serving at the gladstones substitute. what the mayor said is really important because we often refer to this time as the biocentury,

and that's because with we are at a moment in time today where we can imagine finally not just accepting the diseases that we suffer from across the world, but actually think about curing those diseases once and for all. and we've never had this opportunity before, but we do today because of advances in our knowledge and advances in technology. so at the gladstones institute we are at the forefront in this transitional moment in time where mayor breed mentioned who have made transformative discoveries all over the world with stem cell and biology and technology and we have built sciences in heart disease, alzheimer's and other brain

diseases like parkinson's disease and covid and cancer. we have the ability to kill cancer cells and cure diabetes and other illnesses. it happens through deep partnerships that we build. so we have that with ucsf in san francisco across the street and we have developed that across the bay area and with stanford and to really take our discoveries and not let them sit on the shelf as we make them but have them get into people through partnerships where we launched companies with our

discoveries and in fact over the last five years we have launched nearly 15 companies from gladstones based here in the bay area. those companies have raised over nearly 3/4 of a billion dollars in venture capital for the sciences and those companies have employed hundreds of people. the work we do will not only transform lives over time but it's having an economic impact right here in our city. we've had a great partnership with this city for many years since we started in '79. initially based in sacramento. we were just the second building here and the city partnered with us to do so and we are delighted that we are partnering going forward with this opportunity to really make, seal this impact

that we have on science, medicine and human lives, not just here in san francisco, not just in the united states, but really across the world. so as you heard we are going to be building right here on the patio as we sit and by adding more space to our building, we'll be able to bring in the talent to make these dreams a reality. we'll come back some day and with we look at the cures for alzheimer's, heart disease, finally getting rid of hiv, you will find those fingerprints of those course right here at gladstones, mission bay and in our city of san francisco. when part of our mission at gladstones is not just to do great science, but also to train the next generation of leaders, and we take that very seriously.

so we have, we developed a program where we take people who have already gotten their phd degrees and md degrees and we teach them how to be scientist and also teach them how to be leaders in a very good intentional way. one of ours trained here in the 1990s, and obviously went on to change the world. our trainees sometimes start their own labs, sometimes they go into industry and we have a former trainer here in the audience and they launched one of the companies here at mission bay to make eggs out of stem cells so they can have their own eggs and their own children. we have never done this before and they are going to do that and

they are young women and men entrepreneurs in science. when we train the next generation, we want to train people from all walks of lives especially those that have been under represented in signs. we have a number of programs across all aspects of the training program from high school, college to graduate degrees to do exactly that. one of our programs who we termed for promoting under training and science and many have gone on to training in stem and many plan to study in stem and we are very

happy to have them part of this group. we have someone here who worked two programs at gladstones and got a leadership position and a championship award here at gladstones and now applied and accepted for a phd program at stanford and is off to a fabulous career. you are going to get to hear about his journey directly from him today. ernest, please share your experience with the audience. [ applause ] >> thank you. when i was in high school in virginia, i loved math and science. i got mostly a's in my class, but english was hard for me. i came from the philippines

to the u.s. when i was 10 and only had three years to learn the language. i asked my teacher if i can go to college and not only did he say no, but he laughed at me and wasn't much help and tried to dissuade me and discourage me and said i should go to the military instead. i wanted to be a doctor. i wanted to help people as much as i can. i found my own way. not having enough money, i started working odd jobs, after 11 years, my dream to pursue science has only grown stronger. in 2014, i decided to move back to the bay area where i had lived when i first immigrated here in this country and go to college. then my son was three and his mother was sick and

couldn't care for him so i brought him with me. i enrolled in community college, and at the same time i found a job as a recycler to support my son and i was informed about the puma program and she told me about her son who was a scientist. it helped me find new ways to be a doctor. i was 30 years old. i thought it was a great program. it gave me an inside look of how real biology operates and i learned some of the fundamentals used today and i enrolled in the program for the second time. i was going to college, working as a puma intern and the regional

park at east bay. all the while continuing to take care of my son. it wasn't easy, but it was worth it. i was in the pac to reach my dreams. my hard work paid off because i was offered a job at gladstones and while finishing my master's degree in biology. i got into the master's degree program at ucsf and from the national institute of health to help me continue my education. while i was at gladstones in the lab, i was studying the interaction between proteins to find new targets and i knew that science was the right path for me. today, joseph is 11 and his mother lives in texas. my

parents come around to see the value of my scientific career. i was accepted at stanford and started the phd program last fall. i was able to transfer everything i learned from gladstones. my professors today are amazed that i already have lab skills. i also discovered how to think like a scientist at gladstones because i was surrounded by them. i figured out how to frame an experiment and think about the larger picture. which is something that i have not learned through my education. my role here is to help as many people as i can. a few years ago, i shadowed a doctor of oncology treating cancer patients. i noticed that patients who are immigrants are affected by hepatitis first and they weren't able to access

vaccines in their own country. these are people i want to help by researching diseases by affecting overlooked and under represented groups. i also want to inspire others who look like me. this is why i'm sharing my story today. i'm sure many of the young people and older are interested in pursuing a career in stem, but are told like i was, it's not for them. that they can't do it. they are made to believe that they can't go to college. i want them to know that they can. one day, hopefully, we'll see many people that look like us. not only working in science and academia, but in leadership positions, and high school teachers won't laugh at these students who dream of college but instead help them reach their goal.

now, i would like to invite executive director of the office of community investment and infrastructure to say a few words. >> thank you. i hope you know that you are an inspiration to so many folks out there who are looking to achieve these skills as you heard from our very own madam mayor. she was going to college for this and others that are looking to people like you and to gladstones as a place for future careers. thank you for all you do. i'm the executive director of the office of community investment and infrastructure. i'm just going to say a few words to round out the program. mission bay was designed from the ground up to be a place, an innovation capital, a hub for life sciences. gladstones was the first private company to take that risk and lean into

that vision in 2004. since then, mission bay has grown a lot and lots of new housing, over 6,000 homes, approximately 40% are affordable and office space and biotechnology space and 25 acres of parks. this gladstones expansion will ensure that in san francisco we can continue to make advances in research in hiv, alzheimer's, and heart disease and cancer right here in san francisco. once again the innovation of the bay area. this project has also created many new jobs. and while we will still say international hub of this vision. i would like to thank the team

and supervisor dorsey, who is not here but for his tireless support and would like to thank the gladstones team, and karen johnson from hms, and lastly mark, the project manager and niki henry who is not here today. that's it. thank you for coming and thank you, madam mayor, for [ applause ] >> >> >> [door opening]

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>> this is an exhibition across departments highlighting different artworks from our collection. gender is an important part of the dialogue. in many ways, this exhibition is contemporary. all of this artwork is from the 9th century and spans all the way to the 21st century. the exhibition is organized into seven different groupings or themes such as activities, symbolism, transformation and others. it's not by culture or time period, but different affinities between the artwork. activities, for example, looks

at the role of gender and how certain activities are placed as feminine or masculine. we have a print by uharo that looks at different activities that derisionly performed by men. it's looking at the theme of music. we have three women playing traditional japanese instruments that would otherwise be played by men at that time. we have pairings so that is looking within the context of gender in relationships. also with how people are questioning the whole idea of pairing in the first place. we have three from three different cultures, tibet, china and japan. this is sell vanity stot relevar has been fluid in different time

periods in cultures. sometimes being female in china but often male and evoking features associated with gender binaries and sometimes in between. it's a lovely way of tying all the themes together in this collection. gender and sexuality, speaking from my culture specifically, is something at that hasn't been recently widely discussed. this exhibition shows that it's gender and sexuality are actually have been considered and complicated by dialogue through the work of artists and thinking specifically, a sculpture we have of the hindu deities because it's half pee

male and half male. it turns into a different theme in a way and is a beautiful representation of how gender hasn't been seen as one thing or a binary. we see that it isn't a modest concept. in a way, i feel we have a lot of historical references and touch points throughout all the ages and in asian cultures. i believe san francisco has close to 40% asian. it's a huge representation here in the bay area. it's important that we awk abouk about this and open up the discussion around gender. what we've learned from organizing this exhibition at the museum is that gender has been something that has come up in all of these cultures through all the time periods as something that is important and relevant. especially here in the san francisco bay area we feel that it's relevant to the conversations that people are having today. we hope that people can carry

that outside of the museum into their daily lives. >> my name is tiffany cobb and i work for the san francisco fire department. i was raised by a single parent. i grew up with a very strong work ethic mental

ity. i would like to compare it to a bar back and anticipated the needs and the call. you will provide the needs and complete the call. >> the favorite part of the job is when i can actually connect with a patient and utilize your people skills as a human being. sometimes it's not a medical need. they just want someone to talk to, someone to listen to and want to be seen as a person and want to be recognized and see them as they are.

those are my important calls. i remember being a seven or nine year old girl and never seen anyone like me in a fire engine and that gave me hope that i can do that. there are people like me that can do that job. sometimes people need to feel nurtured and feel safe. i feel like i can bring that to my patients. >> you maybe feel afraid. just try it out. that's what i did. just never give up. i was told no. i failed the fire academy. i'm still here and i never quit. just learn from your mistakes and never give up on yourself. i'm in station 49. eventually i

would like to utilize my skills as a fire paramedic and hopefully become an officer some day. >> for san francisco, i said this in my interview, it's like the new york of the west coast. it has everything i wanted to be a part of. it has ems and has a rich history and blue collar history which i absolutely love. i want to be a part of that. [music] digital literacy is something severely lacking in our world today and it takes a lot to understand that. food water and shelter have basic

necessities so long we forget about wifi and connection to the interenet and when you go into communities and realize peep ople are not able to load homework and talk to teachers and out of touch with the world. by providing the network and system we are able to allow them to keep up in the modern age. >> folks still were not served by internet throughout the city and tended to be low income people, people in affordable housing. people of color and limited english and seniors, all those are high concentrations in affordable housing, so we thought given that we had a fiber network that stretched throughout the city reaching deep into neighborhoods that would be a perfect opportunity to address it in san francisco. >> the infrastructure the city and star help us run are dejtle programs. it played a critical role from the time we

opened during covid till now so we were able to collaborate with online services that offer tutoring and school support. it also helped us be able to log the kids on for online school during covid, in addition to like, now that everybody has switched most of their curriculum online we can log kids on to the online homework, check grades in addition to helping parent learn how to use the school system portm >> the office of digital equity our goal fiber to housing is insure we have all three legs of the 3 legged stool. the first leg is high quality internet connection. we liken the high quality internet connection to the highway. the second leg is high quality devices. this is the car. you want to make sure the

specks on the car is up to speed and lastly, it is important to get kind of that driver's education to learn how to navigate the road, to know the signs to watch out for in terms of making sure you are school while you are surfing the internet it is private so that is the digital literacy piece. >> my daily life i need the internet just to do pretty much everything. the internet has taken so much control over people's daily lives including myself that i just need it to get certain jobs done, i need it for my life. i need it. >> the program really seeks to where ever possible provide a service that's equivalent or higher speed and quality as the best commercial service . >> we serve all of san francisco, but we definitely have to be equitable in our distribution of services. that means everybody gets what they need to be successful.

>> actually one of the most gratifying part of my work here at department of technology, it is really bringing city resources to address problems faced with our communities with the highest need. >> i think it is important because i grew up in a low income community without internet access and it is hard. i think it is important for everyone to have internet access no matter their income and maybe one day their kid will have internet access for us and help the school and with

>> this is a huge catalyst for change. >> it will be over 530,000 gross square feet plus two levels of basement. >> now the departments are across so many locations it is hard for them to work together and collaborate and hard for the customers to figure out the different locations and hours of operation. >> one of the main drivers is a one stopper mitt center for --

permit center. >> special events. we are a one stop shop for those three things. >> this has many different uses throughout if years. >> in 1940s it was coca-cola and the flagship as part of the construction project we are retaining the clock tower. the permit center is little working closely with the digital services team on how can we modernize and move away from the paper we use right now to move to a more digital world. >> the digital services team was created in 2017. it is 2.5 years. our job is to make it possible to get things done with the city online. >> one of the reasons permitting is so difficult in this city and county is really about the scale. we have 58 different department in the city and 18 of them involve permitting.

>> we are expecting the residents to understand how the departments are structured to navigate through the permitting processes. it is difficult and we have heard that from many people we interviewed. our goal is you don't have to know the department. you are dealing with the city. >> now if you are trying to get construction or special events permit you might go to 13 locations to get the permit. here we are taking 13 locations into one floor of one location which is a huge improvement for the customer and staff trying to work together to make it easy to comply with the rules. >> there are more than 300 permitting processes in the city. there is a huge to do list that we are possessing digital. the first project is allowing people to apply online for the a.d.u. it is an accessory dwelling

unit, away for people to add extra living space to their home, to convert a garage or add something to the back of the house. it is a very complicated permit. you have to speak to different departments to get it approved. we are trying to consolidate to one easy to due process. some of the next ones are windows and roofing. those are high volume permits. they are simple to issue. another one is restaurant permitting. while the overall volume is lower it is long and complicated business process. people struggle to open restaurants because the permitting process is hard to navigate. >> the city is going to roll out a digital curing system one that is being tested. >> when people arrive they canshay what they are here to. it helps them workout which cue

they neat to be in. if they rant to run anker rapid she can do that. we say you are next in line make sure you are back ready for your appointment. >> we want it all-in-one location across the many departments involved. it is clear where customers go to play. >> on june 5, 2019 the ceremony was held to celebrate the placement of the last beam on top of the structures. six months later construction is complete. >> we will be moving next summer. >> the flu building -- the new building will be building. it was designed with light in mind. employees will appreciate these amenities. >> solar panels on the roof, electric vehicle chargers in the basement levels, benefiting from gray watery use and secured bicycle parking for 300 bicycles. when you are on the higher floors of the building you might

catch the tip of the golden gate bridge on a clear day and good view of soma. >> it is so exciting for the team. it is a fiscal manifestation what we are trying to do. it is allowing the different departments to come together to issue permits to the residents. we hope people can digitally come to one website for permits. we are trying to make it digital so when they come into the center they have a high-quality interaction with experts to guide then rather than filling in forms. they will have good conversations with our staff.

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dev mission's goal is aiming to train young adults,

youth so we can be a wealth and disparity in underserved communities like where we are today. my name is leo sosa. i'm the founder and executive director for devmission. we're sitting inside a computer lab where residents come and get support when they give help about how to set up an e-mail account. how to order prescriptions online. create a résumé. we are also now paying attention to provide tech support. we have collaborated with the san francisco mayor's office and the department of technology to implement a broad band network for the residents here so they can have free internet access. we have partnered with

community technology networks to provide computer classes to the seniors and the residents. so this computer lab becomes a hub for the community to learn how to use technology, but that's the parents and the adults. we have been able to identify what we call a stem date. the acronym is science technology engineering and math. kids should be exposed no matter what type of background or ethnicity or income status. that's where we actually create magic. >> something that the kids are really excited about is science and so the way that we execute that is through making slime. and as fun as it is, it's still a chemical reaction and you start to understand that with the materials that you need to make the slime. >> they love adding their little twists to everything. it's just a place for them to

experiment and that's really what we want. >> i see. >> really what the excitement behind that is that you're making something. >> logs, legos, sumo box, art, drawing, computers, mine craft, and really it's just awaking opportunity. >> keeping their attention is like one of the biggest challenges that we do have because, you know, they're kids. they always want to be doing something, be helping with something. so we just let them be themselves. we have our set of rules in place that we have that we want them to follow and live up to. and we also have our set of expectations that we want them to achieve. this is like my first year officially working with kids. and definitely i've had moments where they're not getting something. they don't really understand it and you're trying to just talk to them in a way that they can make it work teaching them in different ways how they can get the light bulb to go off and

i've seen it first-hand and it makes me so happy when it does go off because it's like, wow, i helped them understand this concept. >> i love playing games and i love having fun with my friends playing dodge ball and a lot of things that i like. it's really cool. >> they don't give you a lot of cheese to put on there, do they? you've got like a little bit left. >> we learn programming to make them work. we do computers and programming. at the bottom here, we talk to them and we press these buttons to make it go.

and this is to turn it off. and this is to make it control on its own. if you press this twice, it can do any type of tricks. like you can move it like this and it moves. it actually can go like this. >> like, wow, they're just absorbing everything. so it definitely is a wholehearted moment that i love experiencing. >> the realities right now, 5.3 latinos working in tech and about 6.7 african americans working in tech. and, of course, those tech companies are funders. so i continue to work really hard with them to close that gap and work with the san francisco unified school district so juniors and seniors come to our program, so kids come to our stem hub and be

exposed to all those things. it's a big challenge. >> we have a couple of other providers here on site, but we've all just been trying to work together and let the kids move around from each department. some kids are comfortable with their admission, but if they want to jump in with city of dreams or hunter's point, we just try to collaborate to provide the best opportunity in the community. >> devmission has provided services on westbrook. they teach you how to code. how to build their own mini robot to providing access for the youth to partnerships with adobe and sony and google and twitter. and so devmission has definitely brought access for our families to resources that our residents may or may not have been able to access in the past. >> the san francisco house and

development corporation gave us the grant to implement this program. it hasn't been easy, but we have been able to see now some of the success stories of some of those kids that have been able to take the opportunity and continue to grow within their education and eventually become a very successful citizen. >> so the computer lab, they're doing the backpacks. i don't know if you're going to be able to do the class. you still want to try? . yeah. go for it. >> we have a young man by the name of ivan mello. he came here two and a half years ago to be part of our digital arts music lab. graduating with natural, fruity loops, rhymes. all of our music lyrics are clean. he came as an intern, and now he's running the program. that just tells you, we are

only creating opportunities and there's a young man by the name of eduardo ramirez. he tells the barber, what's that flyer? and he says it's a program that teaches you computers and art. and i still remember the day he walked in there with a baseball cap, full of tattoos. nice clean hair cut. i want to learn how to use computers. graduated from the program and he wanted to work in i.t.. well, eduardo is a dreamer. right. so trying to find him a job in the tech industry was very challenging, but that didn't stop him. through the effort of the office of economic work force and the grant i reached out to a few folks i know. post mates decided to bring him on board regardless of his

legal status. he ended his internship at post mates and now is at hudacity. that is the power of what technology does for young people that want to become part of the tech industry. what we've been doing, it's very innovative. helping kids k-12, transitional age youth, families, parents, communities, understand and to be exposed to stem subjects. imagine if that mission one day can be in every affordable housing community. the opportunities that we would create and that's what i'm trying to do with thiscommissi

meeting is conducted pursuant the provisions of the boun act and recent executive orders issue d by the governor to reduce the risk of covid-19 transmission at public meetings. the brown act sets strict rules for teleconferencing. the governor signed a new amendment to the brown act to allow continued use of teleconferencing for public meetings during a state of emergency providing commissions such as ours make certain findings. to comply with the legal requirement, items 5 and 6 on the agenda is request to consider whether continued use of teleconferencing will minimize health risk and whether our commission is able to use teleconferencing in a matter that allows