Have you ever taken antibiotics for a sore throat and ended the treatment as soon as the symptoms disappeared and without finishing the course of medicine? This is a common mistake many of us ha…
Shortly after the pandemic began, when doctors and scientists knew little to nothing about the novel coronavirus that has been sweeping across the globe for almost a year now, one thing became clear…
Dr. Dang, a world-renowned scientist, medical oncologist, National Academy of Medicine member, and professor in Wistar’s Molecular and Cellular Oncogenesis Program, was selected for the 2020 Highly C…
Predoctoral trainees Sarah Welsh and Joseph Zundell are the recipients of the annual Monica H. M. Shander Memorial Fellowship Award for outstanding predoctoral research. This year, the Committee has…
Pratik Bhojnagarwala is a third-year graduate student in the Cancer Biology Program jointly administered by Wistar and the University of the Sciences. Currently, he’s carrying out thesis work in the…
From the many corners of Philadelphia and its surrounding neighborhoods, Wistar colleagues united to run, walk and raise funds supporting our pre- and postdoctoral trainees. We had an amazing turn ou…
Approaching the end of the year, Wistar takes stock of its federal funding performance. During the 2020 fiscal year of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) — the U.S. government agency that suppor…
A conversation with Anne Schoemaker about her vision to sponsor The Wistar-Schoemaker International Postdoctoral Fellowship, a partnership launched in 2019 by Wistar and Leiden University Medical Cen…
Wistar’s first Women & Science event of the COVID-19 era took place virtually and, appropriately, featured Dr. Ami Patel, a Wistar scientist that is playing a major role in the work being done at…
Dr. Ian Tietjen came to Wistar in 2019 as a research assistant professor in the laboratory of Dr. Luis Montaner. He brings a fascinating approach to HIV and infectious disease research that…
