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Recent Press Releases

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New Small Molecule Inhibitors Show Potential for Treatment of Epstein-Barr Virus-Associated Cancers 

The Wistar Institute and Anixa Biosciences Extend Collaborative Research Agreement 

New Insight Into the Balance Between the Tumor-suppressive and Tumor-promoting Effects of Cellular Senescence 

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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Special Event

Women & Science: Helen Dean King Award Ceremony 2019

Symposium

Epigenetics in Cancer 2019

Symposium

The Noreen O'Neill Melanoma Research Symposium: Heterogeneity, Plasticity and Reprogramming in Melanoma

125 Years of Discovery

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David Kritchevsky

David Kritchevsky

While working at the Institute in 1959, the biochemist and expert in human nutrition David Kritchevsky, Ph.D., published the influential textbook Cholesterol, which explored his studies on the mechanisms of atherosclerosis, or fat deposits in blood vessels, and the role of cholesterol deposits in cardiovascular disease.

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