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June 25, 2020
PHILADELPHIA — (June 25th, 2020) — The Wistar Institute, a biomedical research leader in cancer, immunology and infectious diseases, and Allevi, Inc. a Philadelphia based startup pioneering innovat…
May 28, 2020
PHILADELPHIA — (May. 28, 2020) — Scientists at The Wistar Institute developed a synthetic DNA approach that instructs in vivo production of a human monoclonal antibody able to neutralize hepatitis …
May 20, 2020
PHILADELPHIA — (May 20, 2020) — The Wistar Institute, an international biomedical research leader in cancer, immunology and infectious disease, announces a study reporting initial immunogenicity of…
May 1, 2020
PHILADELPHIA — (May, 1, 2020) — The Wistar Institute, an international biomedical research leader in cancer, immunology and infectious diseases, announces the appointment of molecular systems biolo…
April 29, 2020
PHILADELPHIA — (April 29, 2020) — The Wistar Institute and Batavia Biosciences announce the launch of a strategic collaboration aimed to streamline the clinical grade manufacture and global distrib…
March 11, 2020
PHILADELPHIA — (March 11, 2020) — Scientists at The Wistar Institute reported a sophisticated technology to simplify production of nanovaccines, a novel approach to vaccination that can robustly st…
February 19, 2020
PHILADELPHIA — (Feb. 19, 2020) — Scientists at The Wistar Institute discovered a novel pathway that enables detection of DNA in the cytoplasm and triggers inflammation and cellular senescence. This…
January 30, 2020
PHILADELPHIA — (Jan. 30, 2020) — Combining EZH2 inhibition and PARP1 inhibition may provide a new therapeutic strategy for ovarian cancers that have functional DNA damage repair and thus would not …
January 24, 2020
PHILADELPHIA — (Jan. 24, 2020) — In a study by The Wistar Institute and collaborators, a rare, African-specific variant of the TP53 gene called P47S causes iron accumulation in macrophages and othe…
January 23, 2020
PHILADELPHIA — (Jan. 23, 2020) — The Wistar Institute announces today that they are part of a team to develop a vaccine against the recently emerged strain of coronavirus (2019-nCoV) that has infec…