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November 24, 2020
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…
November 24, 2020
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…
November 23, 2020
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…
November 17, 2020
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 …
October 23, 2020
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 supp…
October 8, 2020
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 C…
September 21, 2020
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 …
August 24, 2020
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 th…
August 24, 2020
Antiretroviral therapy (ART) has dramatically increased the health and life expectancy of HIV-infected individuals, suppressing virus replication in the host immune cells and stopping disease …
July 29, 2020
As our state economy faces a long slog back to recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, Wistar is poised to assist with the development of the workforce that will help enable that recovery. The In…