Cellular biologist Michela Perego, Ph.D., was born in Monza, the capital city of Brianza, a northern Italian province well known for Formula One race car driving. She grew up in a family of non-scien…
Wistar researchers were recognized for their leadership and contributions to vaccinology recently at the International Society for Vaccines (ISV) annual Congress. The conference, held in October in S…
Finding a cure has long been the holy grail of HIV research. Now new discoveries are putting that goal within reach, according to Wistar’s Luis Montaner, D.V.M., D.Phil.
As director of the institute…
Assistant professor Daniel Claiborne, Ph.D., pursues one of the hottest up-and-coming areas of research: CAR T cells, which are engineered immune cells designed to attack specific target Dr. Claiborn…
Dr. Katalin Karikó, 2023 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine, received The Wistar Institute’s 2024 Helen Dean King Award and as a part of the day-long activities, Dr. Karikó spent time with Wist…
For Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month, we sat down with Rahul S. Shinde, D.V.M., Ph.D., assistant professor in Wistar’s Ellen and Ronald Caplan Cancer Center who researches potential new therapies fo…
Infectious disease specialist & senior scientist in Wistar’s Lieberman lab, Dr. Soldan studies the connection between M.S. and Epstein Barr Virus. She is most intrigued with how the body responds…
Paul M. Lieberman, Ph.D., is leader of the Genome Regulation and Cell Signaling Program at the Ellen and Ronald Caplan Cancer Center. He studies how certain viruses, such as Epstein-Barr virus, estab…
In July 2024, Jozef Madzo, Ph.D., joined Wistar’s faculty as an assistant professor and new director of the Bioinformatics Core Facility, which provides investigators with critical data analysis supp…
In front of the 200-plus audience gathered in The Wistar Institute’s standing-room-only Sarah and Matthew Caplan Auditorium — as well as many more tuning in virtually — the 2023 Nobel Laureate in Phy…
