Wistar is committed to making impactful discoveries and responding to global health challenges through cutting-edge research by establishing platforms to create molecular- and cellular-based strategies against cancer and infectious diseases.
Goals
- Enhance our capacity for rapid response against future global health crises caused by existing and emerging infectious diseases and pathogens.
- Halt resistance to cancer therapy by developing novel drug candidates.
- Harness high-performance computing and artificial intelligence for accelerated discovery and personalized strategies to diagnose and treat cancer.
Diverse and inclusive education and training are vital to support Wistar research, garner global recognition, and open exciting opportunities for industry partnership and philanthropy.
Goals
- Bring all the current educational programs under a single umbrella.
- Expand the continuum of Wistar educational programs to create a diverse, inclusive life sciences talent pipeline.
- Integrate education and training into Wistar’s mission for long-term, global impact in biomedical research.
Wistar is deeply committed to the collaborative power of science, and we aim to continue expanding our network of colleagues throughout the worldwide community of foundational biomedical researchers.
Goals
- Develop new domestic collaborative partnerships with regional health systems to advance translational research.
- Attract international scientific talent to develop the next generation of leaders in biomedical research through global training programs anchored at Wistar.
- Expand Wistar Science Accelerator Award program to globally support sustainable recruitment, public-private partnerships, technology development, access to patient resources and collaborations.
“As a world premiere research organization, Wistar has positioned itself as a unique force for breakthrough scientific advances, impactful discoveries, and long-lasting solutions to some of humanity’s most pressing health problems.”
– Dario Altieri, M.D.
- President and Chief Executive Officer
- Director, Ellen and Ronald Caplan Cancer Center
- Robert and Penny Fox Distinguished Professor, Immunology, Microenvironment & Metastasis Program
The mission of The Wistar Institute is to marshal the talents of outstanding scientists through a highly enabled culture of biomedical collaboration and innovation, in order to solve some of the world’s most challenging and important problems in the field of cancer, immunology, and infectious diseases, and produce groundbreaking advances in world health. Consistent with a pioneering legacy of leadership in not-for-profit biomedical research and a track record of life-saving contributions in immunology and cell biology, The Wistar Institute aims to pursue novel and courageous research paths to life science discovery, and to accelerate/potentiate the impact of those discoveries by shortening the path from bench to bedside.
Our vision for Wistar is a path of science exceptionalism: to be recognized regionally and globally as one of the world’s most important and productive engines of transformative biomedical discovery, with an impact on human health that is disproportionate to our size; to be known for a distinctive brand of science — “Wistar Science” — that is original, fast-moving, and courageous; and to be sought after by other like-minded organizations as a partner of choice in advancing new health discoveries.
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