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October 24, 2025
        
                        
        
    
        
        
                Distinguished Biochemist Behind Blockbuster Drugs for Diabetes, Obesity & Weight Loss Spent the Day Imparting Her Wisdom & Scientific Know-how on Wistar Researchers It was an all-day affair…
        
        
                        
                
                
                        September 29, 2025
        
                        
        
    
        
        
                After more than a year of construction, the Center for Advanced Therapeutics (CAT) opened its doors to a crowd of more than 100 eager guests.
        
        
                        
                
                
                        September 2, 2025
        
                        
        
    
        
        
                Wistar’s Martina De Bortoli, postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Dr. Jessie Villanueva, won a one-year Postdoctoral Research Fellowship from the American-Italian Cancer Foundation to support her resear…
        
        
                        
                
                
                        August 27, 2025
        
                        
        
    
        
        
                For many, summer is a time to relax—students close their textbooks, and families head off on long-awaited vacations. But at The Wistar Institute, summer marks the start of something much more hands-o…
        
        
                        
                
                
                        July 23, 2025
        
                        
        
    
        
        
                Dr. Liu will lead the Philadelphia Chapter of the ASA to create initiatives and opportunities to enhance professional development.
        
        
                        
                
                
                        July 21, 2025
        
                        
        
    
        
        
                The Taxin Brain Tumor Research Fund was created in 1993 by the late Doris Taxin to honor the legacy of Albert R. Taxin, a beloved Philadelphia restauranteur who died from glioblastoma, and to raise a…
        
        
                        
                
                
                        July 18, 2025
        
                        
        
    
        
        
                Capstone Project taught students strategic thinking and tech execution 
        
        
                        
                
                
                        July 18, 2025
        
                        
        
    
        
        
                Dr. Irene Bertolini loves a challenge. Her path as a researcher hasn’t been easy, but today she is right where she wants to be: in a lab, studying extracellular vesicles, small particles that could p…
        
        
                        
                
                
                        June 5, 2025
        
                        
        
    
        
        
                Gathering friends, local dignitaries, community collaborators, and staff, The Wistar Institute celebrated its milestone expansion and the opening of the HIV Cure and Viral Diseases Center at 3675 Mar…
        
        
                        
                
                
                        April 28, 2025
        
                        
        
    
        
        
                Wistar’s Dr. Jesper Pallesen uses cryo-electron microscopy at very low temperatures to view protein structures at the atomic level.
        
        
                        
                
                
                         
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
