President Altieri remembers his late mentor Thomas Scott Edgington Thomas Scott Edgington died in La Jolla, California, on January 22, 2021 from heart disease. He was a towering figure in vascular …
On Feb. 4, Wistar welcomed eight students from Cheyney University that will take a Biomedical Research Methods course especially developed for their training as part of the Wistar-Cheyney collabora…
Antibiotic-resistant bacteria keep Dr. Bonnie Bassler up at night. The Princeton molecular biologist who made groundbreaking discoveries demonstrating that bacteria communicate and orchestrate grou…
Despite dramatic progress in cancer therapy, long-term survival is hindered when cancer returns. Tumor cells that escape initial treatment can travel to distant sites in the body and remain hidden …
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 …
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 clea…
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…
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 ha…
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 th…
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 …
