Featured News

The Wistar Institute was awarded a PAsmart grant of $650,000 from the Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry to expand education and training programs further across the region and create additional opportunities for more students to prepare for careers in the growing life science industry.

The hybrid event marked the conclusion of the Institute’s Life Science Innovation Course that provides experience in biotechnology entrepreneurship.

For more than 20 years, The Wistar Institute has been training community college students with relevant, much-needed skills to attain in-demand jobs in the biomedical and biotechnology fields. Since 2000, Wistar understood that biomedical lab technicians would always be highly sought after for their own labs and beyond, and thus set out to create a program to cultivate this much-needed talent.

In this virtual event held by the Chamber of Commerce, Wistar’s Associate Dean of Biomedical Studies Dr. David Zuzga spoke about workforce development and the value of apprenticeship programs at the Chamber of Commerce virtual event “Finding Emerging Talent in STEM”.

From HIV to COVID-19, Wistar scientists are at the forefront of vaccine development. Read our recap of the recent Vaccine Symposium and the impactful research in progress at the Institute.