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October 9, 2025
Wistar honors Dr. Svetlana Mosjov as the 2025 Helen Dean King Award recipient.
October 2, 2025
Wistar researchers have overturned three decades of scientific thinking about p53, the most important tumor suppressor protein in cancer research.
September 17, 2025
Wistar announces the opening of its new Center for Advanced Therapeutics (CAT) led by Paul Lieberman, Ph.D., to harness the power of Wistar science and speed creation of new drugs and therapies for h…
September 9, 2025
New research by Wistar Institute scientists shows how targeting a cleft in the retinoblastoma protein can kill tumor-protecting macrophages in ovarian cancer.
September 4, 2025
The Wistar Institute announces the appointment of Katherine Aird, Ph.D., as co-leader and professor in the Molecular and Cellular Oncogenesis Program of the Ellen and Ronald Caplan Cancer Center.
August 19, 2025
The Wistar Institute announces the National Institutes of Health (NIH) granted a five-year, $17 million research award to launch iCure Consortium to develop individualized “cure regimens” for HIV.
August 15, 2025
The Wistar Institute, an international biomedical research leader in cancer, immunology and infectious disease, announces the appointment of Simon Chu, Ph.D., as Caspar Wistar Fellow in the Molecular…
July 10, 2025
PRESS RELEASE CONTACT: Darien Sutton 215-898-3988 | dsutton@wistar.org PHILADELPHIA — (July 10, 2025) — Scientists at The Wistar Institute have discovered that a class of FDA-approved cancer drugs…
July 9, 2025
Scientists at The Wistar Institute have discovered how a key protein from the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), EBNA-LP, fundamentally rewires the three-dimensional structure of DNA in infected B cells to pr…
June 30, 2025
The Wistar Institute announces the appointment of Qingsheng Li, Ph.D., as professor in the HIV Cure and Viral Diseases Center.