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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…
January 14, 2025
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…
January 9, 2025
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…
December 24, 2024
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…
December 16, 2024
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…
November 26, 2024
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…
November 21, 2024
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…
October 31, 2024
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…
October 29, 2024
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…