Press Releases
December 3, 2024
PHILADELPHIA — (December 3rd, 2024) — The Wistar Institute’s David B. Weiner, Ph.D. — Executive Vice President, director of the Vaccine & Immunotherapy Center and W.W. Smith Charitable Trust Distingu…
November 27, 2024
PHILADELPHIA — (Nov. 27, 2024) — Governor Josh Shapiro’s Administration, through the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program (RACP), has granted The Wistar Institute $2…
November 26, 2024
PHILADELPHIA — (Nov. 26, 2024) — The Wistar Institute’s Alessandro Gardini, Ph.D., and lab have shed new light on how certain biological processes determine the development of neural cells. Their fin…
November 21, 2024
Wistar Institute Researchers Discover New Combination Therapy Approach for Metastatic Ovarian Cancer
PHILADELPHIA — (November 21, 2024) — The Wistar Institute’s Nan Zhang, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Ellen and Ronald Caplan Cancer Center’s Molecular and Cellular Oncogenesis Program, and lab ha…
November 19, 2024
PHILADELPHIA — (November 19, 2024) — A collaboration between The Wistar Institute and the University of Buea in Cameroon has uncovered the mechanisms for a medicinal plant with anti-HIV potential in…
October 11, 2024
PHILADELPHIA — (October 11, 2024) — In the latest issue of The Philadelphia Business Journal, The Wistar Institute’s Maureen Murphy, Ph.D. — Deputy Director of the Ellen and Ronald Caplan Cancer Cent…
October 8, 2024
PHILADELPHIA — (Oct. 8, 2024) — New research from The Wistar Institute’s Salvino lab — led by professor Joseph Salvino, Ph.D. — has identified a novel series of SARS-CoV-2 Mpro inhibitors that may le…
October 3, 2024
Drs. Lieberman, Collman, and Co-Authors Link RSAD2/Viperin Gene with Certain Chronically HIV-Infected Cells
September 17, 2024
PHILADELPHIA — (September 17th, 2024) — The Wistar Institute’s President and CEO, Dario C. Altieri, M.D., and team have demonstrated the role of Parkin — a protein implicated in Parkinson’s disease —…
September 16, 2024
Honored as the Top Read in the September 15 Issue of the Journal of Immunology