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October 1, 2021
Throughout its history, Wistar has successfully cultivated strategic relationships to accelerate the development of its discoveries toward the clinic. Recognizing that the potential of scientific dis…
October 1, 2021
Dr. Luis Montaner is a transformative leader in HIV research. Throughout his tenure at Wistar, his discoveries to find an HIV cure have elevated both the prestige and scientific prowess of the Instit…
September 30, 2021
Research in the Gene Expression & Regulation Program at Wistar continues to reveal new knowledge on RNA and its functions to regulate how our genes are expressed and how that can go awry. In high…
September 29, 2021
Companies that make rubella vaccines have been getting harder and harder to come by. The global production of the rubella vaccine, supplied in combination with measles, mumps and varicella…
September 15, 2021
Wistar welcomes Dr. Noam Auslander as an assistant professor in the Cancer Center’s Molecular & Cellular Oncogenesis Program. She applies artificial intelligence (AI) through high-throughput comp…
September 15, 2021
Dr. Hildegund Ertl, Wistar immunologist and vaccine developer, has been featured in local and national media and sought after by journalists as a source of expert opinions. A well-spoken scientist, a…
September 13, 2021
Mice differ from people in many ways. But over the last decade, scientists have succeeded in engineering mice that are more humanlike in their ability to be infected with HIV, making it possible to s…
September 13, 2021
Last February, Wistar welcomed the inaugural group of Cheyney University students enrolled in the biomedical research and training program co-developed in 2020 by the nation’s first biomedical resear…
September 13, 2021
Many people unwind in front of the television after a long day. But Noam Auslander, Ph.D., who joined The Wistar Institute Cancer Center in June as an assistant professor, often spends the evening gl…
September 13, 2021
Studying Immunology and Cancer, Nan Zhang, Ph.D., Delves Into Mysteries Of Ovarian Cancer Metastasis
Few biologists can say they saw a type of cells for the first time. Nan Zhang, Ph.D., who started at The Wistar Institute in September as an assistant professor, became one of those biologists when…