Since 1997, Wistar’s Dr. David Weiner has taught Vaccines and Immune Therapeutics for the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine. After joining The Wistar Institute — where he serve…
Managing a lab involves a complex orchestration of tasks: running experiments, writing grants, engaging staff, managing the research budget, and answering emails. With many tasks to juggle, you would…
Jeffrey Faust keeps a toolbox next to his office. It looks like something you might find in a garage: screwdrivers, Allen wrenches (standard & metric), wire caps, the indispensable duct tape, and…
Wistar researchers, staff and guests gathered to present the 2023 Helen Dean King Award to Dr. Cori Bargmann, Torsten N. Wiesel Professor and head of the Lulu and Anthony Wang Laboratory of Neural Ci…
A group of more than 35 Wistar trainees, researchers, staff, and family members donned their sneakers, stretched their hamstrings, and took to the sidewalks of University City on November 13 to parti…
A Q&A with Wistar’s Dr. Amelia Escolano What got you interested in immunology? My interest in immunology started in college. I took several immunology courses, and I was particular…
Wistar’s Dr. Avi Srivastava seamlessly integrates elements of computer science and traditional biology into his new computational biology research lab. By combining wet and dry lab approaches — exper…
Dr. Ian Tietjen is a Research Assistant Professor in Wistar’s Montaner Lab, where he investigates traditional African medicinal compounds’ potential for drug origination against viruses like HIV. Dr…
Dr. Ian Tietjen is a Research Assistant Professor in Wistar’s Montaner Lab, where he investigates traditional African medicinal compounds’ potential for drug origination against viruses like HIV. Dr…
Dr. Daniel Claiborne of The Wistar Institute was recently awarded two grants to support studying an approach to optimize CAR T cells, a type of engineered cell, for use against HIV. Claiborne, a Casp…
