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June 5, 2020
When I graduated from medical school, many years ago, I took an oath. An oath to preserve and uphold human life. All human life. What I saw in the horrific, excruciating minutes of the video in Min…
May 29, 2020
Research assistant professor Ami Patel has spent her career committed to using novel engineering approaches to fight harmful infectious diseases. Her work focuses on developing next generation vacc…
May 19, 2020
In the middle of the pandemic, Wistar graduate student Kevin Alicea-Torres is living a busy and exciting life, preparing to defend his thesis and graduate with a Ph.D. in cell and molecular biology…
May 13, 2020
In mere weeks, philanthropic support of Wistar’s Coronavirus Discovery Fund has exceeded $1.6M in new funding thanks to an extraordinary response from individuals, foundations, and corpor…
May 12, 2020
Dr. Ertl is a global leader in Wistar’s Vaccine & Immunotherapy Center whose research focuses on preventing rabies, HBV, HIV, HPV, influenza, and other deadly viruses using innovative patented …
May 5, 2020
The Pennsylvania Cancer Alliance, a coalition of the state’s leading cancer research institutions, meets every year in early May for a lobbying initiative to engage legislators and spotlight the im…
April 29, 2020
This is week six of the stay-at-home order in Pennsylvania and Darien Sutton, associate director of Communications & Marketing, caught up again with President and CEO Dario C. Altieri, M.D., fo…
April 29, 2020
Dr. Luis Montaner is an HIV expert focused on finding new ways to boost the natural function of the immune system to combat infection or viral-associated disease. Dr. Joseph Salvino is a medicinal …
April 17, 2020
Principal investigator Dr. Daniel Kulp is one of a group of Wistar scientists undertaking coronavirus research in response to the pandemic. A protein engineering expert, his lab focuses on rational…
April 16, 2020
The Immunology, Microenvironment and Metastasis (IMM) Program explores the basic mechanisms of host-tumor interactions, immune responses and metastatic dissemination to create novel translational a…