The Wistar Institute celebrated the most successful fundraising campaign in its history with an evening reception at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Donors, board members and Wistar staff gathered in…
For 25 years Wistar has led the way in training students both locally and internationally for careers in the life science sector. The origins of Wistar’s commitment to training started with Dr. Willi…
On September 14th, 2014, The Robert and Penny Fox Tower at The Wistar Institute was opened, marking a monumental change in the look and biomedical research capacity of the Institute. This September…
Upon the launch of The Wistar Institute’s new Genome Regulation and Cell Signaling Program, we sat down with the Program’s leader — Hilary Koprowski, M.D., Endowed Professor Paul M. Lieberman, Ph.D…
A contemporary of Isaac Newton, Robert Hooke, was a pioneer in the field of microscopy. Some say that Hooke coined the word “cell” based on his study of plants. Like Newton, Hooke’s body of work infl…
Italo Tempera, Ph.D. — associate professor and associate director for Cancer Research Career Enhancement at The Wistar Institute’s Ellen and Ronald Caplan Cancer Center — hosted a workshop for Wistar…
The Wistar’s Institute’s Caplan Auditorium was filled to capacity to recognize 58 students who had completed one of Wistar’s four summer Education and Training programs. The event – the culmination o…
29 years ago, Dr. Luis Montaner started an HIV cure research program at The Wistar Institute. Today, he is the newly minted founding director of Wistar’s HIV Cure and Viral Diseases Center. His innov…
More than 200 attendees joined in-person and virtually from around the world to hear from 2023 Nobel Laureate Drew Weissman, M.D., Ph.D. — Wistar’s 2024 Jonathan Lax Memorial Awardee, Roberts Family…
Nearly 100 steadfast members of Wistar’s President’s Society and honored guests gathered at The Wistar Institute to attend this year’s President’s Society Dinner for an evening of community and refle…
