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Wistar and Peter Mac Scientists Discover Fundamental Mechanism That Fine-tunes Gene Expression and Is Disrupted in Cancer 

The Wistar Institute Receives Transformative National Science Foundation Grant to Expand and Accelerate STEM Training Program

Wistar Expands International Training of the Next Generation of Scientists With the University of Bologna 

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

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Scientific Seminar

Virtual Distinguished Lectures in Cancer Research Series: Metabolism, Cellular Decisions and the Language that Unites Them

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The Noreen O'Neill Melanoma Research Virtual Symposium: Understanding Melanoma Progression and Therapy Resistance

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Women & Science Virtual Event: Advances in Melanoma and Skin Cancer Research

125 Years of Discovery and Counting

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Dario Altieri, M.D.

Dario Altieri

Cancer biologist Dario C. Altieri, M.D., was appointed director of the Wistar Cancer Center, which he expanded by recruiting a “critical mass” of multidisciplinary researchers. In 2015, Dr. Altieri became president and CEO of the Institute while retaining his role as director of the Cancer Center. Dr. Altieri also leads a research program that studies how tumor cells evade programmed cell death and the role of mitochondria, power plant of the cells, in tumor metabolism.

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