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October 12, 2022
PHILADELPHIA — (OCTOBER 12, 2022) — The mitochondria is a key energy-producing component of the human cell that plays an important role in cancer cell metabolism. In a research paper published in PLO…
October 4, 2022
PHILADELPHIA — (OCTOBER 4, 2022) — The National Institutes of Health has awarded Amelia Escolano, Ph.D., assistant professor in The Wistar Institute’s Vaccine & Immunotherapy Center, the 2022 NIH…
September 19, 2022
New research finds biological processes that improve prediction of therapeutic performance and provide a framework to develop predictors for this aggressive skin cancer. PHILADELPHIA — (SEPTEMBER 19…
September 8, 2022
PHILADELPHIA—(September 8, 2022)—The Wistar Institute is pleased to announce the appointment of Michele A. Schiavoni, M.S., as Vice President of Communications & Marketing, in a central leadershi…
September 7, 2022
PHILADELPHIA — (Sept. 7, 2022) — Researchers in the laboratory of Yulia Nefedova, M.D., Ph.D., at The Wistar Institute and collaborators at Jubilant Therapeutics Inc. have uncovered a novel mechanism…
August 2, 2022
PHILADELPHIA — (August 2, 2022) — The National Cancer Institute (NCI) has granted a Merit Extension Award to The Wistar Institute’s Ellen and Ronald Caplan Cancer Center totaling more than $5 million…
July 18, 2022
PHILADELPHIA — (July 18, 2022) — Aging and age-related disorders pose a complex challenge to the biomedical research community. To better understand how senescence is regulated is of high significanc…
July 13, 2022
PHILADELPHIA — (July 13, 2022) — The Wistar Institute, an international biomedical research leader in cancer, immunology, and infectious diseases, is pleased to announce the appointment of Gelvina Ro…
July 7, 2022
PHILADELPHIA — (July 7, 2022) — Under a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and Joint Program Executive Office for Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Defense (JPEO-CBRND) fu…
June 23, 2022
PHILADELPHIA—(June 23, 2022)—The Wistar Institute, a biomedical research leader in cancer, immunology, and infectious disease, announces that for the first time it will globally stream its 26th Annua…