PHILADELPHIA — (JULY 26, 2023) — It’s been known since the 1960s that Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV) causes a variety of cancers, but research has overwhelmingly focused on its connection to lymphomas. Now, a multidisciplinary team of scientists led by …
Advanced computer models from Cameroon allow scientists to screen hundreds of compounds efficiently. Wistar Research Assistant Professor Dr. Ian Tietjen of the Montaner Lab — in his collaboration with Dr. Fidele Ntie-Kang, Associate Professor and …
PHILADELPHIA — (July 19, 2023) — Scientists have long used community advisory boards to engage communities and provide feedback on studies, but this model has limitations. Now, researchers from The Wistar Institute are sharing how a more inclusive…
Emmy-award winning CBS3 health reporter Stephanie Stahl stops by The Wistar Institute to meet the students and scientist-mentors behind this inclusive, essential training of the next generation of scientists.
Philadelphia—For the first time since 2019, The Wistar Institute opened its doors to host, in person, the 27th annual Jonathan Lax Memorial Award Lecture, which featured Deborah Persaud, M.D., Professor of Pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins School of…
The Brook J. Lenfest Foundation has awarded a $25,000 grant to The Wistar Institute’s Biomedical Technical Training (BTT) Program. The grant will help further the BTT Program’s mission to provide education, training and mentorship to regional comm…
Dr. Jessie Villanueva, associate professor, Molecular & Cellular Oncogenesis Program, and associate director for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at The Wistar Institute, and her team are working to understand how certain melanoma tumors bypass…
The Wistar Institute’s Quality Science Pathway Apprenticeship provides an accelerated pathway to careers in the Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical industries. Applications for 2023-2024 are due by July 31. Participants complete three indus…
PHILADELPHIA—(June 22, 2023)—The Wistar Institute hosts its 27th Jonathan Lax Memorial Lecture Thursday, June 29th at 5:30 pm EST. For the first time since 2019, the signature event will be hosted in-person at Wistar; it is also being streamed to …
PHILADELPHIA — (June 20, 2023) — When cancer that starts in the body metastasizes to the brain, it is almost always lethal, in part because so few treatment options exist. Now a new study by Wistar scientists published in Nature Communications sho…
