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January 26, 2024
Enter Dr. Louise Showe’s office, and you’ll see the evidence of a life lived at the intersection of family and science. A photo taken by her son of a Florida panther hangs on her door. Drawings from…
January 22, 2024
Wistar’s Dr. Rahul Shinde with PanCAN’s Nick Pifani and Bruce Platt Rally Around Common Bond Meet Nick Pifani who came to Wistar to share his story of surviving pancreatic cancer; he was one of sever…
January 16, 2024
Since 1997, Wistar’s Dr. David Weiner has taught Vaccines and Immune Therapeutics for the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine. After joining The Wistar Institute — where he serve…
December 6, 2023
Managing a lab involves a complex orchestration of tasks: running experiments, writing grants, engaging staff, managing the research budget, and answering emails. With many tasks to juggle, you would…
December 5, 2023
Jeffrey Faust keeps a toolbox next to his office. It looks like something you might find in a garage: screwdrivers, Allen wrenches (standard & metric), wire caps, the indispensable duct tape, and…
December 4, 2023
Wistar researchers, staff and guests gathered to present the 2023 Helen Dean King Award to Dr. Cori Bargmann, Torsten N. Wiesel Professor and head of the Lulu and Anthony Wang Laboratory of Neural Ci…
November 21, 2023
A group of more than 35 Wistar trainees, researchers, staff, and family members donned their sneakers, stretched their hamstrings, and took to the sidewalks of University City on November 13 to parti…
November 20, 2023
A Q&A with Wistar’s Dr. Amelia Escolano What got you interested in immunology? My interest in immunology started in college. I took several immunology courses, and I was particular…
November 14, 2023
Wistar’s Dr. Avi Srivastava seamlessly integrates elements of computer science and traditional biology into his new computational biology research lab. By combining wet and dry lab approaches — exper…
October 24, 2023
Dr. Ian Tietjen is a Research Assistant Professor in Wistar’s Montaner Lab, where he investigates traditional African medicinal compounds’ potential for drug origination against viruses like HIV. Dr…