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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…
May 11, 2023
It is often said that the measure of a person is in more than just their accomplishments. For Dario Altieri, CEO of The Wistar Institute, trying to sum up the tenure of Joe Trainor, who will be ret…
May 1, 2023
Students participating in the Institute’s Life Science Innovation Course cap their experience with a final business pitch. Over a cup of coffee several years ago, Dr. David Zuzga, Associate Dean of…
May 1, 2023
Montaner, together with international delegations, attended the April 4 launch in Ho Chi Min City. On April 4, tucked in a courtyard at the Go Vap District Health Center in Vietnam’s Ho Chi Min Cit…