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Maureen Murphy, Ph.D., of The Wistar Institute Named 2024 Woman of Influence

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 Center and Ira Brind Professor & Program Leader of the…
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The Wistar Institute Celebrates Bold Science // Global Impact Campaign Success

The Wistar Institute celebrated the most successful fundraising campaign in its history with an evening reception at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Donors, board members and Wistar staff gathered in the soaring, Frank Gehry designed Williams Forum…
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Breaking Down the Science: Wistar’s New Genome Regulation and Cell Signaling Program in the Ellen and Ronald Caplan Cancer Center

Upon the launch of The Wistar Institute’s new Genome Regulation and Cell Signaling Program, we sat down with the Program’s leader — Hilary Koprowski, M.D., Endowed Professor Paul M. Lieberman, Ph.D. — and co-leader, professor Bin Tian, Ph.D., to lea…
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New Ways of Seeing at Wistar

A contemporary of Isaac Newton, Robert Hooke, was a pioneer in the field of microscopy. Some say that Hooke coined the word “cell” based on his study of plants. Like Newton, Hooke’s body of work influenced scientific inquiry, and some aspects of his…
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Wistar Scientist Coaches Trainees on Importance of Communication

Italo Tempera, Ph.D. — associate professor and associate director for Cancer Research Career Enhancement at The Wistar Institute’s Ellen and Ronald Caplan Cancer Center — hosted a workshop for Wistar postdoctoral trainees on the principles of effect…
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The Wistar Institute Recognizes 58 Students Completing Summer Education & Training Programs

The Wistar’s Institute’s Caplan Auditorium was filled to capacity to recognize 58 students who had completed one of Wistar’s four summer Education and Training programs. The event – the culmination of months of class work and laboratory training – r…
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HIV – We’ve Never Been Closer to a Cure

29 years ago, Dr. Luis Montaner started an HIV cure research program at The Wistar Institute. Today, he is the newly minted founding director of Wistar’s HIV Cure and Viral Diseases Center. His innovative work spans the globe, across research groups…
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Jozef Madzo, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Genome Regulation and Cell Signaling Program, Ellen and Ronald Caplan Cancer Center Scientific Director, Bioinformatics Facility
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28th Annual Jonathan Lax Lecture Celebrates Nobel Laureate and New HIV Cure and Viral Diseases Center at The Wistar Institute

More than 200 attendees joined in-person and virtually from around the world to hear from 2023 Nobel Laureate Drew Weissman, M.D., Ph.D. — Wistar’s 2024 Jonathan Lax Memorial Awardee, Roberts Family Professor in Vaccine Research, Director of Vaccine…
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Wistar to Honor 2023 Nobel Prize Winner Dr. Katalin Karikó

PHILADELPHIA — (July 25, 2024) — The Wistar Institute honors 2023 Nobel Prize laureate in Physiology or Medicine Katalin Karikó, Ph.D., as the 2024 Helen Dean King Award recipient. Dr. Karikó, professor at the University of Szeged in Hungary and adj…
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