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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.
April 23, 2025
Dr. Ian Tietjen is education director, Global Studies & Partnerships, Hubert J.P. Schoemaker Education and Training Center & assistant professor in Wistar’s Vaccine & Immunotherapy Center…
April 10, 2025
Dr. Ian Tietjen is education director, Global Studies & Partnerships, Hubert J.P. Schoemaker Education and Training Center & assistant professor in Wistar’s Vaccine & Immunotherapy Center…
March 17, 2025
The Wistar Institute has established two new internal funding awards to advance the careers of promising Wistar scientists making an impact in biomedical research.
March 13, 2025
In her role as dean of biomedical studies at The Wistar Institute, Dr. Kristy Shuda McGuire uses her love of science and teaching to nurture future scientists, from high school students to adults.
February 25, 2025
Roma Maraj-Owen, director of Laboratory Operations and Environmental Health & Safety, leads the Environmental Health & Safety Department here at Wistar. Roma oversees a team responsible for s…
February 12, 2025
As part of the Distinguished Lectures in Cancer Research series, Jennifer Heemstra, Ph.D., presented to Wistar faculty and trainees on her scientific research and a professional passion of hers, the…
February 6, 2025
Anneliese Faustino, Ph.D., recently joined The Wistar Institute as the associate managing director of the Proteomics Facility. She is also an artist who uses art to advance her science. Here she disc…
February 4, 2025
Wistar professor Kazuko Nishikura, Ph.D., has led the way in foundational biomedical research on RNA for decades. Her laboratory discovered the role genes in the ADAR family play in editing RNA. A ne…