Recent News News Blog Press Releases In the News Featured News Publications Contact Us Featured News May. 18, 2021 Groundbreaking of Life Science Building Encapsulates West Philadel... Development effort by the community and for the community will reap vital benefits. Press Release May. 17, 2021 Wistar and Peter Mac Scientists Discover Fundamental Mechanism Tha... Study reveals a novel mechanism that can be targeted for cancer therapy and is mediated by the Integrator transcriptional complex. Press Release May. 11, 2021 Wistar Receives National Science Foundation Grant Impactful, inclusive workforce development program will develop a pipeline of young scientists for careers in growing life sciences sector. Blog Post Apr. 27, 2021 Latest Wistar Discoveries: Fine-tuning Vaccine Delivery in Preclin... A team of Wistar scientists led by Dr. David Weiner, Wistar executive vice president, director of the Vaccine & Immunotherapy Center and W.W. Press Release Apr. 27, 2021 Wistar Expands International Training of the Next Generation of Sc... Second international training program offers mentorship under top cancer research scientists. Featured News Apr. 27, 2021 Wistar and Leiden University Medical Center Engage in Collaborativ... Two institutions forge a valuable international collaboration based on training and emerging research alignment. Featured News Apr. 23, 2021 Dr. Ebony Gary Received Awards from American Association of Immuno... Congratulations to Ebony Gary, Ph.D., postdoctoral fellow from the Weiner lab, for receiving the 2021 AAI Trainee Abstract Award from the American Association of Immunology and having her abstract… Press Release Apr. 22, 2021 Low-dose Administration of MERS DNA Vaccine Candidate Induces Pote... Dose-sparing regimens and intradermal delivery have important implication for rapid clinical development of effective, well-tolerated and easy-to-distribute vaccines against MERS and other… Press Release Apr. 1, 2021 Wistar Scientists Discover New Mechanism Through Which Senescent C... New insights into expression of the senescence-associated secretory phenotype. Press Release Mar. 23, 2021 Richard M. Horowitz Appointed Chair of The Wistar Institute’s Boar... Richard M. Horowitz is the new Chair of Wistar’s Board of Trustees. Looking forward to future growth under his guidance, the Institute is grateful to former Chair Helen P. Pudlin for her inspiring… Featured News Mar. 22, 2021 Dr. Katelyn Miller Awarded American Cancer Society Fellowship Katelyn Miller, Ph.D., postdoctoral fellow in the Wistar lab of Dr. Zach Schug, is the recipient of the prized Rena and Victor Damone Postdoctoral Fellowship in Cancer Research… Press Release Mar. 12, 2021 RNA Editing Protein ADAR1 Protects Telomeres and Supports Prolifer... Isoform preserves telomere stability by preventing accumulation of R-loops, emerging as a new cancer cell vulnerability that could be therapeutically targeted. Communications In the News Check out some of the recent media coverage Wistar and its scientists have received. Publications View our Annual Report, Focus magazine and sign-up for our monthly e-newsletter. Media Inquiries If you are a member of the media and would like to speak with a Wistar scientists on any matter, please contact our Communications and Marketing Department.
