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Distinguished Lectures in Cancer Research Series: Insights Into How to Prevent Metastasis From Modeling the Biology of Disseminated Cancer Cell Dormancy

Scientific Seminar Tuesday, May 10, 2022 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. The Distinguished Lectures in Cancer Research series is the flagship seminar series of the Ellen and Ronald Caplan Cancer Center and features national and international leaders in ba…
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26th Annual Jonathan Lax Award Lecture 

Special Event Tuesday, June. 28, 2022 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Featuring Mike McCune, M.D., Ph.D., Head, HIV Frontiers, Biotechnology Accelerator, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Keynote Address: Bringing Safe and Effective “Curative” Intervent…
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Wistar Science Synergy Through Fostering International Collaborations

Inaugural graduate students from Leiden University Medical Center speak to their Wistar experience. The Wistar-Schoemaker International Postdoctoral Fellowship is a special exchange of postdoctoral fellows between our two institutes. We sat down w…
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Discussing the Mysteries of Melanoma

A Q&A with Drs. Chengyu Liang and Meenhard Herlyn on skin cancer research at The Wistar Institute, including a few questions from melanoma survivors. Melanoma is the most aggressive form of skin cancer. Work at The Wistar Institute’s Melanoma …
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Spotlighting Wistar’s Cheyney University Student Scientists

Read some reflections from the Cheyney University students who participated in Wistar’s Biomedical Research Methods course during Spring 2022. Lights, lab coats, action! The click of pipettes and low murmur of voices fill the open lab space as stu…
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Wistar’s Shark Tank Pitch Competition Goes Swimmingly

The hybrid event marked the conclusion of the Institute’s Life Science Innovation Course that provides experience in biotechnology entrepreneurship. Students enrolled in The Wistar Institute’s Life Science Innovation course entered the shark …
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Wistar Receives PAsmart Grant to On-Ramp More Apprentices from Our Biomedical Education & Training Programs 

For more than 20 years, The Wistar Institute has been training community college students with relevant, much-needed skills to attain in-demand jobs in the biomedical and biotechnology fields. Since 2000, Wistar understood that biomedical lab tech…
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Workforce Development at Wistar 

In this virtual event held by the Chamber of Commerce, Wistar’s Associate Dean of Biomedical Studies Dr. David Zuzga spoke about workforce development and the value of apprenticeship programs at the Chamber of Commerce virtual event “Finding Emerg…
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Wistar Scientists Link Mutation to a Severe Lung Disease

Newly published research identifies a mutation associated with scarring of the lungs, revealing a useful diagnostic tool and target for gene therapy. Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a fatal lung disease that can cause death within five year…
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Wistar Scientists Reveal New Hypothesis in How Epstein-Barr Virus Hijacks a Host

Newly published research identifies proteins in EBV-infected cells that decreased expression of genes linked to the spread of the virus, a fresh direction for EBV research. Epstein-Barr virus is a common, long-lasting virus that affects most indiv…
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