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September 16, 2022
Recently, The Wistar Institute created a virtual tour of our Montaner Lab which focuses on infectious disease research such as HIV through highly collaborative regional and international projects. …
September 13, 2022
A conversation with the Lieberman Lab delves into how EBV can trigger MS and potential therapeutic solutions that can be developed with this knowledge. Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) is ubiquitous, estab…
September 12, 2022
Dr. Laura Garcia Gerique, postdoctoral fellow in the Nefedova lab, and Sarah Offley, graduate student in Gardini lab, are winners of the 2022 Annual Rugart Family Awards. This annual event, sponsor…
September 9, 2022
The team identified the metabolite TMAO drives immune activation in the tumor microenvironment and boosts response to immune checkpoint blockade therapy in pancreatic cancer. Rahul S. Shinde, D.V.M…
September 6, 2022
With just over a year at The Wistar Institute under their respective scientific belts, innovator-scientists Amelia Escolano, Ph.D., and Daniel Claiborne, Ph.D., have been pushing the scientific env…
September 1, 2022
Wistar continues to be a dynamic environment prepared to tackle biomedical challenges in a collaborative, innovative, and inclusive culture. Read more about our Ellen and Ronald Caplan Cancer Cente…
August 26, 2022
Vaccines are a crucial public health tool in its’ arsenal against diseases. Resurgences of diseases long thought eradicated are popping up decades later in sewage waters here and abroad, and we’ve …
August 8, 2022
This Q&A offers a behind the science peek into some of the long-term effects of COVID on the body influenced by the gut microbiome. In a paper published in JCI Insight, Mohamed Abdel-Mohsen, Ph…
August 5, 2022
On August 4, The Wistar Institute hosted a ceremony celebrating the 2022 graduates of the Biomedical Technician Training (BTT) Program and Fox Biomedical Research Technician (BRT) Apprenticeship. T…
August 3, 2022
The Pancreatic Cancer Action Network announced that Rahul S. Shinde, D.V.M., Ph.D., Assistant Professor in the Immunology, Microenvironment & Metastasis Program of Wistar’s Ellen and Ronald Cap…