While the world struggles with a growing number of people sickened with COVID-19 and health care workers engage in a tireless and heroic mission to save lives, biomedical researchers are on th…
Dr. Dario Altieri, Wistar president and CEO, gets candid about our response as a country to the COVID-19 pandemic, and how the Institute is advancing scientific solutions to protect those at the fr…
The Wistar Institute’s Vaccine & Immunotherapy Center (VIC) has assembled its expertise in infectious disease research, as its scientists are part of a team racing to provide a counte…
On March 12, the Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry (L&I) announced more than $6.5 million in PAsmart Registered Apprenticeship Grants. Wistar is one of the awarded institutions, r…
Human papillomavirus (HPV) is the most commonly sexually transmitted virus in the world, infecting 75% of sexually active adults in their lifetime1. HPV infection has a dramatic impact on glob…
Expanding the faculty and enhancing its multidisciplinary nature are focal points in Wistar’s Cancer Center under the leadership of Dario Altieri, M.D., president and CEO, director of The Wistar In…
At the latest installment of Wistar’s Women & Science Program, guest speaker Dr. Padmanee Sharma, a distinguished clinician and researcher who has focused her career on understanding how to boo…
Getting sick with these childhood diseases could mean much more than a fever and a rash. A brief history of vaccination Infectious diseases have existed alongside (and within) humans throughout his…
The TP53 gene is the most frequently mutated gene in human cancer. In addition to mutations, this gene comes in numerous variations in the human population. Some of these variations alter the funct…
Nikon Small World opening night brought to Wistar a crowd of science and art enthusiasts to marvel at the beautiful images of 2019 and listen to first-place winners talk about the work behind their…
