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July 12, 2023
The Brook J. Lenfest Foundation has awarded a $25,000 grant to The Wistar Institute’s Biomedical Technical Training (BTT) Program. The grant will help further the BTT Program’s mission to provide e…
July 7, 2023
Dr. Jessie Villanueva, associate professor, Molecular & Cellular Oncogenesis Program, and associate director for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at The Wistar Institute, and her team are workin…
July 5, 2023
The Wistar Institute’s Quality Science Pathway Apprenticeship provides an accelerated pathway to careers in the Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical industries. Applications for 2023-2024 are due …
June 20, 2023
Dr. Livio Azzoni racks up 20+ miles a week running to and from work at The Wistar Institute. This senior staff scientist in the laboratory of Dr. Luis Montaner took up running 13 years ago because …
June 8, 2023
Pride Month in Philadelphia, PA, is celebrated alongside another worthy cause: AIDS Education Month, an event series organized by the nonprofit Philadelphia FIGHT to raise awareness of those living…
June 8, 2023
The Wistar Institute’s Biomedical Technical Training (BTT) Program was recently featured on Fox 29’s Good Day Philadelphia. Dr. Kristy Shuda McGuire, Dean of Biomedical Studies, and 2022 Program gr…
May 24, 2023
In recent years, multimodal therapies have emerged as a route to treat cancer by delivering different types of treatments together to improve effectiveness. However, the more modalities there are, …
May 18, 2023
Dr. Mohamed Abdel-Mohsen’s Pioneering Research on Siglecs Spotlights Their Role Helping the Immune System Recognize Viral Infections, and as Promising Future Therapy Dr. Mohamed Abdel-Mohsen a…
May 16, 2023
“Our hope is to build a center with the same reflection of Wistar in science and administration.” In three short months as a Visiting Scholar with The Wistar Institute in Philadelphia, Donatus Beki…
May 15, 2023
More than 1,000 supporters gathered in Fairmont Park for PanCAN PurpleStride Philadelphia 2023 to support the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network (PanCAN). Wistar’s Dr. Rahul Shinde is a PanCAN resear…