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When I graduated from medical school, many years ago, I took an oath. An oath to preserve and uphold human life. All human life. What I saw in the horrific, excruciating minutes of the video in Minneapolis made a mockery of that oath, threw it in the filthiest mud, destroyed ideals and brought back the ghost of when humans were property. Property that could be disposed of at one’s whims. With impunity. Without justice. 

The Immunology, Microenvironment and Metastasis (IMM) Program explores the basic mechanisms of host-tumor interactions, immune responses and metastatic dissemination to create novel translational avenues for cancer diagnosis and therapy such as immunotherapy.

Wistar professor Rugang Zhang, Ph.D., has recently been appointed leader of the IMM Program, transitioning from his previous appointment as a co-leader of the Gene Expression & Regulation Program (GER). He succeeds Dmitry Gabrilovich, M.D., Ph.D.

On March 12, the Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry (L&I) announced more than $6.5 million in PAsmart Registered Apprenticeship Grants. Wistar is one of the awarded institutions, receiving a $212,499 grant in support of the Expansion, Curriculum Evolution and Enhancement During Biomedical Technician Training (ExCEED BTT) program.

Nikon Small World opening night brought to Wistar a crowd of science and art enthusiasts to marvel at the beautiful images of 2019 and listen to first-place winners talk about the work behind their winning image — made up of more than one thousand shots and hours of postproduction — as well as their training and the subjects they like to bring in focus under their objective. 
 

Keerthana Gnanapradeepan, a trainee in the Murphy lab, is the recipient of the 2019 Monica H.M. Shander Memorial Fellowship Award.
 
This prestigious award was established in 1981 in memory of former Wistar predoctoral trainee Monica H.M. Shander and is conferred annually to a predoctoral trainee who displays notable excellence in scholastics as well as aptitude and diligence in the laboratory.
 
Gnanapradeepan was recognized for her work on an African-specific variant of p53, the most frequently mutated gene in cancer.