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Philadelphia, PA, March 21, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Scientists in The Wistar Institute lab of David B. Weiner, Ph.D., in collaboration with scientists in the laboratory of Norbert Pardi, Ph.D., at...

PHILADELPHIA, PA, Feb. 28, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The lab of Filippo Veglia, Ph.D., at The Wistar Institute has discovered a previously unknown mechanism for how aggressive brain cancers reprogram...

PHILADELPHIA, PA, Feb. 05, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The lab of The Wistar Institute’s Jessie Villanueva, Ph.D., has identified a new strategy for attacking treatment-resistant melanoma: inhibiting...

PHILADELPHIA, PA, Dec. 16, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Wistar Institute assistant professors Nan Zhang, Ph.D., and Noam Auslander Ph.D., have both received independent funding totaling $1.2 million...

PHILADELPHIA, PA, Dec. 03, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- PHILADELPHIA — (December 3, 2024) — The Wistar Institute’s David B. Weiner, Ph.D. — Executive Vice President, director of the Vaccine &...

PHILADELPHIA, PA, Nov. 21, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- PHILADELPHIA — (November 21, 2024) — The Wistar Institute’s Nan Zhang, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Ellen and Ronald Caplan Cancer Center’s...

Philadelphia, PA, Oct. 03, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- New findings could lead to different research tactics for scientists investigating a cure for HIV. Results from The Wistar Institute’s Lieberman...

PHILADELPHIA, PA, Sept. 17, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Wistar Institute’s President and CEO, Dario C. Altieri, M.D., and team have demonstrated the role of Parkin — a protein implicated in...

PHILADELPHIA, PA, July 17, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Wistar Institute — building on its history of leading advances in human health as the nation’s first nonprofit biomedical research institute —...

PHILADELPHIA, PA, June 04, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Advanced clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC) is a deadly form of kidney cancer with few treatment options; even with new immunotherapies, only...