PHILADELPHIA — (Nov. 26, 2024) — The Wistar Institute’s Alessandro Gardini, Ph.D., and lab have shed new light on how certain biological processes determine the development of neural cells. Their findings on a molecular “bridge” complex demonstrat…
In July 2024, Jozef Madzo, Ph.D., joined Wistar’s faculty as an assistant professor and new director of the Bioinformatics Core Facility, which provides investigators with critical data analysis support. We sat down with him to learn more about ho…
In front of the 200-plus audience gathered in The Wistar Institute’s standing-room-only Sarah and Matthew Caplan Auditorium — as well as many more tuning in virtually — the 2023 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine, Katalin Karikó, Ph.D., rece…
PHILADELPHIA — (Oct. 8, 2024) — New research from The Wistar Institute’s Salvino lab — led by professor Joseph Salvino, Ph.D. — has identified a novel series of SARS-CoV-2 Mpro inhibitors that may lead to potential new COVID-19 treatments that, ac…
PHILADELPHIA — (September 17th, 2024) — The Wistar Institute’s President and CEO, Dario C. Altieri, M.D., and team have demonstrated the role of Parkin — a protein implicated in Parkinson’s disease — in the body’s innate immune response to cancer….
On September 14th, 2014, The Robert and Penny Fox Tower at The Wistar Institute was opened, marking a monumental change in the look and biomedical research capacity of the Institute. This September, we celebrate 10 years of the Fox Tower made poss…
