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Press Releases

November 19, 2024
PHILADELPHIA — (November 19, 2024) — A collaboration between The Wistar Institute and the University of Buea in Cameroon has uncovered the mechanisms for a medicinal plant with anti-HIV potential i…
November 14, 2024
PHILADELPHIA — (NOV. 14, 2024) — The Wistar Institute’s Hubert J.P. Schoemaker Education and Training Center was the recipient of a $100,000 eXperience grant from NIIMBL to support an immersive wee…
October 22, 2024
PHILADELPHIA — (October 22, 2024) —President and CEO of The Wistar Institute Dario Altieri, M.D., has been appointed to the Board of Directors of the Chamber of Commerce for Greater Philadelphia. T…
October 11, 2024
PHILADELPHIA — (October 11, 2024) — In the latest issue of The Philadelphia Business Journal, The Wistar Institute’s Maureen Murphy, Ph.D. — Deputy Director of the Ellen and Ronald Caplan Cancer Ce…
October 8, 2024
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 …
October 3, 2024
Drs. Lieberman, Collman, and Co-Authors Link RSAD2/Viperin Gene with Certain Chronically HIV-Infected Cells
September 18, 2024
Hispanic National Bar Association Honors Wistar’s General Counsel and Corporate Secretary
September 17, 2024
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…
August 13, 2024
PHILADELPHIA, PA – August 13, 2024 – The Wistar Institute and Wexford Science & Technology, LLC announced that Wistar has signed a lease for new laboratory and office space at uCity Square in Phila…