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$12.5 Million Grant Awarded to Wistar Extends Federal Support of the Institute’s Quest for Improved Targeted Therapies for Melanoma 

New mechanism fueling brain metastasis discovered at Wistar 

Targeting a Novel Regulator of Mitochondrial Cell Death Delivers Anticancer Activity in Preclinical Studies 

Our Centers

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Cancer Center

Wistar is a National Cancer Institute Cancer Center in basic research and has held this designation since 1972.
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Vaccine & Immunotherapy Center

Improving health around the globe by creating and advancing vaccines and immunotherapies.

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Scientific Seminar

Vaccines & Immune Therapeutics: "Cure-HIV"

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Vaccines & Immune Therapeutics: "RSV Prevention for High-Risk Populations Different Approaches for Different Age Groups"         
 

Scientific Seminar

Vaccines & Immune Therapeutics: "Vaccine Development for Emerging Infectious Diseases:  Are we addressing lessons learned from the Ebola outbreaks?"

125 Years of Discovery

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Kazuko Nishikura, Ph.D.

RNA Editing

Kazuko Nishikura, Ph.D., discovered a mechanism
of RNA regulation through which cells can make discrete changes in the sequence of nucleotides — the “letters” in the RNA code, ultimately affecting the protein product. She characterized a family of enzymes called ADAR (adenosine deaminase acting on RNA) that are responsible for RNA editing.

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