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December 4, 2023
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…
November 21, 2023
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…
November 20, 2023
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…
November 14, 2023
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…
October 24, 2023
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…
October 16, 2023
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…
October 9, 2023
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…
October 2, 2023
See if you can beat the winning team at the end of the article! The air is electric with excitement and trepidation. Ph.D. students, research assistants, and postdoctoral fellows alike have gathered…
September 21, 2023
Dr. Irene Bertolini of the Altieri Lab investigates extracellular vesicles and their role in metastasis When cancer spreads, cancer kills. Cancer’s ability to spread to other parts of the body — a pr…
September 20, 2023
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…