Bond Street REIT Speaker Series // Deepak Srivastava
Join us for the first of this year’s Bond Street Series, focused on the importance of cultural institutions in fostering creative conversation and enhancing opportunities for democratic engagement. Founder of Bond Street REIT, Michael Reynolds, will host a rare conversation with Special Guest Deepak Srivastava, President of Gladstone Institutes in California, and one of the nation’s leading physicians in the science and technology of stem cell research and opportunities to combat congenital heart disease.
About Deepak Srivastava
Deepak Srivastava, MD, is President of Gladstone Institutes, a nonprofit biomedical research institute that uses visionary science and technology to overcome disease. He is also a senior investigator and director of the Roddenberry Stem Cell Center at Gladstone. In addition, he is a professor in the Departments of Pediatrics and Biochemistry and Biophysics, and the Wilma and Adeline Pirag Distinguished Professor in pediatric developmental cardiology at UC San Francisco (UCSF). Srivastava received his MD from the University of Texas, then trained in pediatrics at UCSF and in pediatric cardiology at the Children’s Hospital of Harvard Medical School. Before joining Gladstone in 2005, Srivastava was a professor of pediatrics and molecular biology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. He became Gladstone’s president in 2018, and has since been steering the organization toward a new era of convergence between technology and biomedical research. In his lab, Srivastava investigates the genes responsible for normal heart formation and congenital heart disease, and harnesses this knowledge to engineer cells that can repair heart damage. Srivastava is a member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the National Academy of Medicine. He served as president of the International Society for Stem Cell Research in 2019–2020. In addition, Srivastava has co-founded two biotechnology companies, iPierian Inc. and Tenaya Therapeutics, where he continues to sit on the board of directors and on the scientific advisory board. Srivastava was recently recognized in the San Francisco Business Times’ Power 100 list for his leadership in business and research in the Bay Area.
About the Bond Street REIT Speaker Series
Orchestrated by Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Michael D. Reynolds, who passionately served as a member of the Board of Trustees and also Treasurer of the Charleston Library Society, the Bond Street REIT Speaker Series strives to honor the institution’s cultural enrichment, intellectual exploration, and literary legacy through a series of lively discussions and thought-provoking lectures. Bond Street is dedicated to preserving the Charleston Library Society’s renowned collection and historical significance, as an immensely valuable repository of history in the South. Bond Street Real Estate Investment Trust, headquartered in Charleston, is a private real estate investment trust uniquely invested in convenience retail centers across ten states in the Southeast.
In 1831, Alexis de Tocqueville toured America and visited Charleston in search of the special ingredient that made America’s democracy so powerful. What he discovered was that the glue that created community and civic discourse was its profoundly thriving cultural institutions. Libraries, theaters, museums, and other cultural spaces served as the foundation for civic engagement and public dialogue. This insight is as relevant today as it was then, and the Library Society remains vibrant because of this very truth.