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2024 Helen Dean King Award Ceremony
Special Event Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2024 12:00 pm to 1:15 pm Each year, The Wistar Institute recognizes women in science as a tribute to geneticist Dr. Helen Dean King, the first woman hired as a Wistar scientist. She worked at the Institute from 1909 …
Gauri Mirji: Searching for a Pancreatic Cancer “Game Changer”
Dr. Gauri Mirji, Ph.D., is a research fellow in Wistar’s Molecular and Cellular Oncogenesis Program of the Ellen and Ronald Caplan Cancer Center. “When we walk together, exchanging our ideas and our knowledge, we can start to find better solutions…
28th Annual Jonathan Lax Lecture Celebrates Nobel Laureate and New HIV Cure and Viral Diseases Center at The Wistar Institute
More than 200 attendees joined in-person and virtually from around the world to hear from 2023 Nobel Laureate Drew Weissman, M.D., Ph.D. — Wistar’s 2024 Jonathan Lax Memorial Awardee, Roberts Family Professor in Vaccine Research, Director of Vacci…
Wistar to Honor 2023 Nobel Prize Winner Dr. Katalin Karikó
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, professor at the University of Szeged in Hungary and a…
The Wistar Institute Launches HIV Cure and Viral Diseases Center
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 HIV Cure and Viral Diseases Center, made possible …
Nobel Laureate Drew Weissman, M.D., Ph.D., Delivers 28th Annual Jonathan Lax Memorial Lecture at The Wistar Institute
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 of Vaccine Research, and Director of the Institut…
Revolutionizing Cancer Treatment: Wistar and Accelerated Biosciences Collaborate to Pioneer Transformative Immune Cell Therapies
PHILADELPHIA — (July 10, 2024) — The Wistar Institute (“Wistar”) is pleased to announce a research collaboration with Accelerated Biosciences Corp. (“Accelerated Bio”) aimed at creating a groundbreaking platform based on human trophoblast stem cel…
The Wistar Institute Recruits Jozef Madzo, Ph.D., as Director of Bioinformatics
PHILADELPHIA — (July 1, 2024) —The Wistar Institute is pleased to announce the appointment of Jozef Madzo, Ph.D., to the faculty as an assistant professor and Director of Bioinformatics. Dr. Madzo will lead and oversee Wistar’s bioinformatics proj…
Wistar President’s Society Members Gather for Special Event Featuring Dr. Paul Offit
Nearly 100 steadfast members of Wistar’s President’s Society and honored guests gathered at The Wistar Institute to attend this year’s President’s Society Dinner for an evening of community and reflections on the scientific journey. Dr. Dario Alti…
Wistar’s Dr. Noam Auslander Awarded $600K V Foundation Grant to Identify Connections between Gut Microbial Genes & Melanoma Immunotherapy
PHILADELPHIA — (Thursday, June 27, 2024) — The Wistar Institute’s Noam Auslander, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Molecular and Cellular Oncogenesis Program at the Ellen and Ronald Caplan Cancer Center, was awarded a $600,000 Women Scientists In…