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Wistar Diversity in Science Seminar Series: Enhancing Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging – the NIH Approach

Scientific Seminar Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2022 12:30 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. This presentation will feature Marie A. Bernard, M.D., NIH Chief Officer for Scientific Workforce Diversity (COSWD). Dr. Bernard will discuss the activities and initiatives she has …
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One Wistar Scientist’s Journey From Curiosity to Collaboration

Originally from Cuba, predoctoral trainee Giselle Lopez Fernandez is cultivating her scientific career in the United States. In the laboratory of leading vaccine researcher and immunologist Dr. David Weiner, she is working on immunotherapies for H…
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Wistar’s Hubert J.P. Schoemaker Education and Training Center Receives National Science Foundation REU Grant

PHILADELPHIA — (DECEMBER 1, 2022) — The National Science Foundation (NSF) has granted a Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) grant to The Wistar Institute’s Hubert J.P. Schoemaker Education and Training Center totaling more than $400,000 …
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Transformational Gift to Create New Center for Advanced Therapeutics at The Wistar Institute

In 1979, at the dawn of the biotechnology era, The Wistar Institute was awarded the first of several patents for the production of monoclonal antibodies against tumors and influenza virus antigens, which would lay the foundation for the entire fie…
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50 Years of Supporting Scientists at Wistar

When biomedical scientists think about the Pew Charitable Trusts, the first thing that probably comes to mind for many is the Pew Scholars Program in the Biomedical Sciences. The program, which launched in 1985, has been supporting promising early…
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Historic Cornerstone Gift Creates the Ellen and Ronald Caplan Cancer Center of The Wistar Institute

For more than a century, The Wistar Institute Cancer Center has led many of the major advances in cancer research and treatment. Wistar scientists were among the first to describe genetic abnormalities that are now recognized as the early-stage cl…
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Wistar Trains the Next Generation of Research Technicians Thanks to The Fox Family’s Multigenerational Support

Since 2000, students at the Community College of Philadelphia have been participating in a summer program at The Wistar Institute to learn the ins and outs of being a research technician. Graduates of this program have the opportunity to apprentic…
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How to Train an Entrepreneur? Wistar’s Newly Expanded Life Science Innovation Course is a Good Place to Start

For as far back as he can remember, Roger Malerba wanted to be a physician. He majored in biology at La Salle University and even shadowed doctors to learn more about orthopedic surgery, the specialty he planned to pursue. But Malerba’s career pla…
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International Fellows Programs

Biomedical research knows no borders. Scientific exchanges across academic institutions around the world enrich knowledge, accelerate the pace of discovery, and facilitate the development of new cures. A cornerstone of scientific collaboration is …
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Unrestricted Planned Gift Supports Purchase of State-of-the-Science Instrumentation

Luis J. Montaner, D.V.M., D.Phil, and his team are making tremendous strides studying the ability of natural killer (NK) cells, a type of immune cell, to wipe out HIV-infected cells. Meanwhile, other groups within Wistar’s HIV Research Program, wh…
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