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July 26, 2023 10:21 ET | Source: The Wistar Institute

Wistar-Led Team Awarded More Than $12 Million Grant from the NCI to Investigate Link Between Epstein-Barr Virus and Carcinomas

PHILADELPHIA, PA, July 26, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- It’s been known since the 1960s that Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV) causes a variety of cancers, but research has overwhelmingly focused on its...
May 04, 2023 10:34 ET | Source: The Wistar Institute

Wistar Scientists Discover Innate Tumor Suppression Mechanism

PHILADELPHIA, PA, May 04, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The p53 gene is one of the most important in the human genome: the only role of the p53 protein that this gene encodes is to sense when a tumor is...
March 30, 2023 10:07 ET | Source: The Wistar Institute

Researchers Identify a Plant-based Compound that Inhibits Reactivation of the HIV Viral Reservoir

PHILADELPHIA, March 30, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- As of 2022, approximately 1.2 million people in the United States are living with HIV. Antiretroviral therapies have enabled many of these...
February 06, 2023 15:45 ET | Source: The Wistar Institute

Wistar Scientists Identify a Gene Signature to Assess Cancer Risk in People

PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 06, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- In a paper published in PNAS, Maureen Murphy, Ph.D., Deputy Director of Wistar’s Ellen and Ronald Caplan Cancer Center and Ira Brind Professor and...
January 19, 2023 14:44 ET | Source: The Wistar Institute

Wistar Institute HIV Researchers Win Grant to Explore Genetically Engineered Natural Killer Cells as HIV Therapy

PHILADELPHIA, PA, Jan. 19, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research, has awarded Luis J. Montaner, D.V.M., D.Phil., in collaboration with Mohamed Abdel-Mohsen, Ph.D., a...
January 13, 2023 09:18 ET | Source: The Wistar Institute

Wistar Institute’s Maureen Murphy Named Deputy Director of the Ellen and Ronald Caplan Cancer Center

PHILADELPHIA, PA, Jan. 13, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Maureen Murphy, Ph.D., has been named Deputy Director of the Ellen and Ronald Caplan Cancer Center at The Wistar Institute. Murphy will guide the...
July 07, 2022 10:00 ET | Source: The Wistar Institute

Collaboration Advances DNA-delivered Antibodies to Prevent COVID-19

Philadelphia, PA, July 07, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- PHILADELPHIA — (July 7, 2022) — Under a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and Joint Program Executive Office for Chemical,...
March 08, 2022 13:00 ET | Source: The Wistar Institute

The Wistar Institute Cancer Center to be Renamed with $10 Million Gift from Caplan Family to Advance Cancer Research

Philadelphia, March 08, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Wistar Institute announces that Ronald Caplan, founder and president of PMC Property Group, Inc., and his wife Ellen have donated $10 million to...
December 23, 2020 11:23 ET | Source: The Wistar Institute

Wistar Reports New Class of Antibiotics Active Against a Wide Range of Bacteria

PHILADLEPHIA, Dec. 23, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Wistar Institute scientists have discovered a new class of compounds that uniquely combine direct antibiotic killing of pan drug-resistant bacterial...
December 15, 2020 11:31 ET | Source: The Wistar Institute

DARPA and JPEO-CBRND Award $37.6M to The Wistar Institute and Collaborators at INOVIO, AstraZeneca, Penn, & Indiana University to Develop Innovative COVID-19 Treatment

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 15, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- A team of scientists from The Wistar Institute, INOVIO, AstraZeneca, the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, and Indiana...