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December 20, 2024
PHILADELPHIA — (December 20th, 2024) — In its annual Excellence Index, Newsweek and the Best Practice Institute has recognized The Wistar Institute as one of the world’s top 1000 companies. Wistar …
December 10, 2024
PHILADELPHIA — (December 10, 2024) — The Wistar Institute assistant professors Nan Zhang, Ph.D., and Noam Auslander Ph.D., have both received independent funding totaling $1.2 million over the next…
December 3, 2024
PHILADELPHIA — (December 3rd, 2024) — The Wistar Institute’s David B. Weiner, Ph.D. — Executive Vice President, director of the Vaccine & Immunotherapy Center and W.W. Smith Charitable Trust Distin…
November 27, 2024
PHILADELPHIA — (Nov. 27, 2024) — Governor Josh Shapiro’s Administration, through the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program (RACP), has granted The Wistar Institute $…
November 26, 2024
PHILADELPHIA — (Nov. 26, 2024) — The Wistar Institute’s Alessandro Gardini, Ph.D., and lab have shed new light on how certain biological processes determine the development of neural cells. Their f…
November 21, 2024
Wistar Institute Researchers Discover New Combination Therapy Approach for Metastatic Ovarian Cancer
PHILADELPHIA — (November 21, 2024) — The Wistar Institute’s Nan Zhang, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Ellen and Ronald Caplan Cancer Center’s Molecular and Cellular Oncogenesis Program, and lab …
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…