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October 8, 2024
PHILADELPHIA — (Oct. 8, 2024) — New research from The Wistar Institute’s Salvino lab — led by professor Joseph Salvino, Ph.D. — has identified a novel series of SARS-CoV-2 Mpro inhibitors that may …
October 3, 2024
Drs. Lieberman, Collman, and Co-Authors Link RSAD2/Viperin Gene with Certain Chronically HIV-Infected Cells
September 18, 2024
Hispanic National Bar Association Honors Wistar’s General Counsel and Corporate Secretary
September 17, 2024
PHILADELPHIA — (September 17th, 2024) — The Wistar Institute’s President and CEO, Dario C. Altieri, M.D., and team have demonstrated the role of Parkin — a protein implicated in Parkinson’s disease…
August 13, 2024
PHILADELPHIA, PA – August 13, 2024 – The Wistar Institute and Wexford Science & Technology, LLC announced that Wistar has signed a lease for new laboratory and office space at uCity Square in Phila…
August 1, 2024
MEDIA ADVISORY CONTACT: Darien Sutton 215-898-3988  |  dsutton@wistar.org WHAT: Wistar Celebrates Accomplishments of 58 Diverse, Next-Gen Students & Pre-apprentices Completing Summer Science Ed…
July 25, 2024
PHILADELPHIA — (July 25, 2024) — The Wistar Institute honors 2023 Nobel Prize laureate in Physiology or Medicine Katalin Karikó, Ph.D., as the 2024 Helen Dean King Award recipient. Dr. Karikó, prof…
July 17, 2024
PHILADELPHIA — (July 16, 2024) —The Wistar Institute — building on its history of leading advances in human health as the nation’s first nonprofit biomedical research institute — is creating a new …
July 10, 2024
PHILADELPHIA — (July 10th, 2024) —On Tuesday, July 16th at 6:30 pm EDT, Nobel Laureate in Medicine or Physiology Drew Weissman, M.D., Ph.D., — Roberts Family Professor in Vaccine Research, Director…