Receiving an endowed professorship is a defining moment in a scientist’s career. Dr. Rugang Zhang has been named the Christopher M. Davis Professor and was honored at a virtual event that gathered …
For almost 20 years, the Pennsylvania Breast Cancer Coalition (PBCC) has supported top Wistar researchers embarking on their scientific careers. For them, it has meant the opportunity to pursue sci…
Cheyney University President Aaron Walton recognized Wistar during their Founder’s Day, presenting the Institute with the Institutional Partnership Award. In February, the Wistar-Cheyney University…
Wistar’s accelerated BTT Program means students can move into apprenticeships sooner to gain full time jobs. The pandemic put the brakes on daily life, but didn’t stop scientific and…
Restrictions due to the COVID-19 pandemic didn’t stop Wistar from keeping up with a long-standing tradition that, for the past 18 years until this year, has brought hundreds of people to the Instit…
Dr. Chengyu Liang, who joined the Wistar faculty in July 2020, leads an exciting research program that investigates fundamental cellular processes in the context of infectious disease and cancer, …
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 …
