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Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry and Legislator Tour Wistar

The Wistar Institute was awarded a PAsmart grant of $650,000 from the Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry to expand education and training programs further across the region and create additional opportunities for more students to prepar…
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Wistar Grows its Collaborative Network Offering Internships in Biotechnology and Life Sciences

Wistar’s Biomedical Technician Training (BTT) Program was developed with the commitment to provide its students hands-on training and industry experience not traditionally delivered in academic classrooms. The Wistar Institute’s training program has…
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Wistar Science Synergy Through Fostering International Collaborations

Inaugural graduate students from Leiden University Medical Center speak to their Wistar experience. The Wistar-Schoemaker International Postdoctoral Fellowship is a special exchange of postdoctoral fellows between our two institutes. We sat down wit…
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Discussing the Mysteries of Melanoma

A Q&A with Drs. Chengyu Liang and Meenhard Herlyn on skin cancer research at The Wistar Institute, including a few questions from melanoma survivors. Melanoma is the most aggressive form of skin cancer. Work at The Wistar Institute’s Melanoma Re…
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Spotlighting Wistar’s Cheyney University Student Scientists

Read some reflections from the Cheyney University students who participated in Wistar’s Biomedical Research Methods course during Spring 2022. Lights, lab coats, action! The click of pipettes and low murmur of voices fill the open lab space as stude…
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Wistar’s Shark Tank Pitch Competition Goes Swimmingly

The hybrid event marked the conclusion of the Institute’s Life Science Innovation Course that provides experience in biotechnology entrepreneurship. Students enrolled in The Wistar Institute’s Life Science Innovation course entered the shark ta…
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Wistar Receives PAsmart Grant to On-Ramp More Apprentices from Our Biomedical Education & Training Programs 

For more than 20 years, The Wistar Institute has been training community college students with relevant, much-needed skills to attain in-demand jobs in the biomedical and biotechnology fields. Since 2000, Wistar understood that biomedical lab techni…
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Workforce Development at Wistar 

In this virtual event held by the Chamber of Commerce, Wistar’s Associate Dean of Biomedical Studies Dr. David Zuzga spoke about workforce development and the value of apprenticeship programs at the Chamber of Commerce virtual event “Finding Emergin…
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Wistar Scientists Link Mutation to a Severe Lung Disease

Newly published research identifies a mutation associated with scarring of the lungs, revealing a useful diagnostic tool and target for gene therapy. Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a fatal lung disease that can cause death within five years…
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Wistar Scientists Reveal New Hypothesis in How Epstein-Barr Virus Hijacks a Host

Newly published research identifies proteins in EBV-infected cells that decreased expression of genes linked to the spread of the virus, a fresh direction for EBV research. Epstein-Barr virus is a common, long-lasting virus that affects most individ…
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