PHILADELPHIA – May 20, 2021 – The Wistar Institute has partnered with doctors and scientists across America at National Cancer Institute (NCI)-designated cancer centers to issue a joint statement u…
PHILADELPHIA and MELBOURNE, Australia — (May. 17, 2021) — A team of scientists from The Wistar Institute in Philadelphia and the Peter MacCallum Cancer Center in Melbourne, Australia, discovered a …
PHILADELPHIA — (May 11, 2021) — The Wistar Institute received a $599,969 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to scale up its Biomedical Technician Training (BTT) Program to train more …
PHILADELPHIA — (April 27, 2021) — The Wistar Institute and the University of Bologna (Unibo) in Italy have established the Wistar-Unibo Ph.D. Exchange Program in Cell and Molecular Biology to bring…
PHILADELPHIA — (April 22, 2021) — A synthetic DNA vaccine candidate for Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) developed at The Wistar Institute induced potent immune responses and…
PHILADELPHIA — (April 1, 2021) — Scientists at The Wistar Institute identified a new mechanism of transcriptional control of cellular senescence that drives the release of inflammatory molecules th…
PHILADELPHIA — (March 23, 2021) — The Wistar Institute, a global leader in biomedical research in cancer, immunology and infectious disease, is pleased to announce the appointment of Richard M. Hor…
PHILADELPHIA — (March 12, 2021) — Scientists at The Wistar Institute identified a new function of ADAR1, a protein responsible for RNA editing, discovering that the ADAR1p110 isoform regulates geno…
PHILADELPHIA — (Jan. 21, 2021) — Researchers at The Wistar Institute have discovered a new enzymatic function of the Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV) protein EBNA1, a critical factor in EBV’s ability to tr…
PHILADELPHIA — (Jan. 13, 2021) — Scientists at The Wistar Institute discovered that Early Growth Response 1 (EGR1), a protein that turns on and off specific genes during blood cell development, inh…
