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January 17, 2024
The Wistar Institute, West Philadelphia Skills Initiative, PIDC, and The Chamber of Commerce for Greater Philadelphia Announce VintaBio as New Employer Partner PHILADELPHIA (January 17, 2024) – The…
December 18, 2023
PHILADELPHIA—(Dec. 18, 2023)—The Wistar Institute, a global leader in biomedical research in cancer, immunology and infectious disease, is pleased to welcome Aleister Saunders, Ph.D., and Patrick O…
December 13, 2023
PHILADELPHIA—(Dec. 13, 2023)— The Wistar Institute, an international biomedical research leader in cancer, infectious disease, immunology, and vaccine development, is pleased to announce the recrui…
December 13, 2023
PHILADELPHIA—(Dec. 13, 2023)—Wistar researchers successfully tested a simple intervention that could unlock greater anti-tumor power in therapies that use T cells — an approach known as “cell-based…
December 5, 2023
Dr. Noam Auslander and authors trained a neural network to identify cancer risk from microbes. PHILADELPHIA—(Dec. 5, 2023)—Wistar scientists have developed a new tool that can help identify cancer-…
December 4, 2023
PHILADELPHIA—(Dec. 4, 2023) — Dario C. Altieri, M.D. — The Wistar Institute’s president and CEO, director of its Ellen and Ronald Caplan Cancer Center and the Robert & Penny Fox Distinguished P…
November 1, 2023
PHILADELPHIA—(Nov. 1, 2023)— The Wistar Institute’s David B. Weiner, Ph.D., executive vice president, director of the Vaccine & Immunotherapy Center (VIC) and W.W. Smith Charitable Trust Distin…
October 17, 2023
PHILADELPHIA (October 17, 2023) – The Wistar Institute, a global leader in biomedical research in cancer, immunology and infectious diseases, announces the appointment of Dean Stoios as Chief Finan…
September 26, 2023
Dario C. Altieri, M.D., president and chief executive officer of The Wistar Institute will be honored by the Justinian Foundation and Society of Philadelphia for exemplifying the finest qualities o…
September 18, 2023
PHILADELPHIA—(Sep. 18, 2023)—Zachary Schug, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Molecular and Cellular Oncogenesis Program of the Ellen and Ronald Caplan Cancer Center at The Wistar Institute, has pu…