The Wistar Institute’s Quality Science Pathway Apprenticeship provides an accelerated pathway to careers in the Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical industries. Applications for 2023-2024 are due by July 31. Participants complete three industr…
PHILADELPHIA—(June 22, 2023)—The Wistar Institute hosts its 27th Jonathan Lax Memorial Lecture Thursday, June 29th at 5:30 pm EST. For the first time since 2019, the signature event will be hosted in-person at Wistar; it is also being streamed to en…
PHILADELPHIA — (June 20, 2023) — When cancer that starts in the body metastasizes to the brain, it is almost always lethal, in part because so few treatment options exist. Now a new study by Wistar scientists published in Nature Communications shows…
Dr. Livio Azzoni racks up 20+ miles a week running to and from work at The Wistar Institute. This senior staff scientist in the laboratory of Dr. Luis Montaner took up running 13 years ago because he was, “Growing, but in the wrong direction. [I] wa…
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Pride Month in Philadelphia, PA, is celebrated alongside another worthy cause: AIDS Education Month, an event series organized by the nonprofit Philadelphia FIGHT to raise awareness of those living with AIDS, AIDS treatments & healthcare and AID…
The Wistar Institute’s Biomedical Technical Training (BTT) Program was recently featured on Fox 29’s Good Day Philadelphia. Dr. Kristy Shuda McGuire, Dean of Biomedical Studies, and 2022 Program graduate Tylier Driscoll, discussed the history of the…
In recent years, multimodal therapies have emerged as a route to treat cancer by delivering different types of treatments together to improve effectiveness. However, the more modalities there are, the more complex the production and effects of these…
Dr. Mohamed Abdel-Mohsen’s Pioneering Research on Siglecs Spotlights Their Role Helping the Immune System Recognize Viral Infections, and as Promising Future Therapy Dr. Mohamed Abdel-Mohsen and his virology lab at The Wistar Institute review t…
