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Finding Cancer Early to Save Lives

Early diagnosis and screening are the bedrock for addressing cancer in a timely fashion to improve patient survival, yet laboratory diagnostics are lagging behind and so far, are limited to a few specific biomarkers for several malignancies. Wistar…
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Wistar Donors Play a Major Role in Accelerating the Impact of Basic Biomedical Science.

Doug and Peggy Briggs have laid the groundwork to bring emerging scientific stars to Wistar through the Institute’s newly founded Caspar Wistar Fellows Program.  It started with a meeting between former QVC president &a…
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Chasing Nipah

Monsoon season was just around the corner. A 26-year-old man living on the outskirts of a dense South Indian tropical forest became sick with flu-like symptoms. It was early May 2018 in the state of Kerala and the man’s symptoms quickly progressed t…
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Consortium of HIV Researchers Puts Philadelphia at Global Center of Research Advances Toward a Cure for HIV/AIDS

PHILADELPHIA — (July, 9, 2019) — Currently, no cure for HIV/AIDS exists, but more than 30 years of scientific advancements in treatment and care made possible because of basic research and clinical trials have improved the HIV therapy landscape. Now…
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The Wistar Institute Secures More Than $4.2M in Philanthropic Support

PHILADELPHIA — (July 3, 2019) —The Wistar Institute, an international leader in biomedical research on cancer, immunology and infectious disease, has received more than $4.2 million in non-federal funding awarded by private foundations.
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Wistar Appoints Dr. Rahul Shinde as Inaugural Caspar Wistar Fellow

PHILADELPHIA — (July, 2, 2019) — The Wistar Institute, an international biomedical research leader in cancer, immunology, infectious disease and vaccine research, announces the appointment of Rahul Shinde, D.V.M., Ph.D., as the first Caspar Wistar F…
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Melanoma, It’s Not All Written in the Genes 

It is well established that some cancer risk factors are interconnected to genetics or other unchangeable factors, such as age or gender. We also know that external factors, such as sun exposure, increase one’s risk of developing melanoma. It’s now…
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Lax Lecture Highlights the Latest Advancements in HIV Research  

“Hope is a state of mind, not a state of the world. Either we have hope within us or we don’t; it is a dimension of the soul not essentially dependent on some particular observation of the world or estimate of the situation. It is an orientation of…
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Novel Role in Spatial Chromosome Organization Identified for Frequently Mutated Cancer Protein

PHILADELPHIA — (May 22, 2019) — New research from The Wistar Institute sheds light on the function of the ARID1A protein, encoded by a gene that is among the most frequently mutated across human cancers. According to the study, published online in S…
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Wistar Science Highlights: Advancement of a Novel Cancer Therapy and New Function of an Ovarian Cancer Gene

Wistar scientists advanced a novel anticancer treatment that targets the endoplasmic reticulum (a word you last heard in middle school cell biology) and discovered a new function for the ARID1 protein that is frequently mutated in ovarian cancer. Th…
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