It is well established that some cancer risk factors are interconnected to genetics or other unchangeable factors, such as age or gender. We also know that external factors, such as sun exposure, i…
“Hope is a state of mind, not a state of the world. Either we have hope within us or we don’t; it is a dimension of the soul not essentially dependent on some particular observation of the world or…
Wistar scientists advanced a novel anticancer treatment that targets the endoplasmic reticulum (a word you last heard in middle school cell biology) and discovered a new function for the ARID1 prot…
In the beautiful setting of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, Wistar friends attended this year’s Wistar Party, a celebration of Wistar science that has carried on for decades, and an oppo…
Recently, Wistar had the great honor of bestowing its annual Women & Science’s Helen Dean King Award upon Dr. Mary-Claire King, one of the most esteemed and productive scientists of our time, i…
Along with warmer temperatures and the beautiful blossoming across the city, spring has become synonymous with the Philadelphia Science Festival, a staple and model for similar initiatives in other…
Each year in early May, representatives from Wistar and fellow institutions who are part of the Pennsylvania Cancer Alliance engage legislators to reinforce the importance and impact of CURE fundin…
In a study published online in Nature, the lab of Dmitry I. Gabrilovich, M.D., Ph.D., Christopher M. Davis Professor and leader of the Immunology, Microenvironment and Metastasis Program, identifie…
For two decades, Wistar’s Biomedical Technician Training (BTT) pre-apprenticeship program has injected biomedical talent into the region’s life sciences workforce by ushering class after class of p…
The Wistar community mourns the loss of a dear friend and one of our greatest supporters, who has given of himself generously to help Wistar for more than four decades. Harold (Hal) M. Davis p…
