Wistar Institute

Type: Organization

Name: Wistar Institute

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 1 reports

Small US trial looks at body's ability to fight HIV

A new approach to coaxing the body to fight HIV without antiretroviral drugs has shown some success in almost half the patients enrolled in a small study, US researchers said Wednesday.Twenty HIV-positive volunteers in Pennsylvania were asked to stop ... [Published Yahoo! Singapore - May 21 2013]

Entities: HIV/AIDS, Wistar Institute, Opportunistic Infections

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 20 2013 - 1 reports

Franklin Institute

Another Center City building topped out

The $41.5 million, 53,000-square-foot Nicholas and Athena Karabots Pavilion at the Franklin Institute was topped out, marking the third building under construction in Center City to reach that milestone this month. The new $160 million family court building ... [Published Philadelphia Business Journal - May 20 2013]

Entities: Wistar Institute, Franklin Institute, Construction

First reported May 07 2013 - Updated May 07 2013 - 2 reports

Wistar Institute

Rare bottle stolen in 1958 returned to facility

WILMINGTON, Del.—A rare glass bottle stolen 55 years ago from a Philadelphia facility has been returned to its home.The U.S. Attorney's Office for Delaware said Tuesday that the Caspar Wistar bottle, stolen in 1958 from the Wistar Institute, was returned ... [Published Chambersburg Public Opinion - May 07 2013]

Entities: Wistar Institute, Alloway (United States), Philadelphia (Pennsylvania, United States)

First reported May 02 2013 - Updated May 02 2013 - 1 reports

Post-Doctoral Fellow in Tumor Immunology

A Post-Doctoral position is available in the laboratory of Dmitry Gabrilovich of The Wistar Institute to study the role of lipid metabolism on function of myeloid cells in cancer.Wistar, an independent medical research institute located adjacent to the ... [Published Molecular Systems Biology - May 02 2013]

Entities: Immunology, myeloid, Tumor, Wistar Institute

First reported May 02 2013 - Updated May 02 2013 - 1 reports

Fresh food, chat, music from a Ph.D.

Scientist Jihed Chehimi leaves the lab and boards the truck - his Chez Yasmine food truck at Penn, serving global fare with a mission "to educate about food, to interact."The lunch-hour rush is under way at the convoy of food trucks that line Spruce Street ... [Published Philly.com - May 02 2013]

Entities: Caper, Doctor of Philosophy, Organic, Radish, Wistar Institute

First reported Apr 17 2013 - Updated Apr 17 2013 - 1 reports

Addition of Exogenous Nucleotides Reverses Oncogene-Induced Cellular Senescence

Addition of exogenous nucleotides can reverse the condition known as oncogene-induced stable senescence-associated cell-growth arrest that was caused by a decrease in deoxyribonucleotide triphosphate (dNTP) levels due to the oncogene-induced repression ... [Published Biotech Daily - Apr 17 2013]

Entities: Oncogene, Nucleotide, Suppression

First reported Apr 17 2013 - Updated Apr 17 2013 - 1 reports

Polio Vaccine Developer Dies

Hilary Koprowski, a researcher who did pioneering work on the polio vaccine, has died of pneumonia at his home near Philadelphia, his son said. He was 96.Koprowski, who died on Thursday, will be remembered in a private family service at a later date, ... [Published Iran Daily - Apr 17 2013]

Entities: Hilary Koprowski, Albert Sabin, Wistar Institute, Vaccine

First reported Apr 15 2013 - Updated Apr 15 2013 - 1 reports

Hilary Koprowski

, who has died aged 96, developed the first successful oral vaccine against polio, but lost out in the race to gain an official licence. The competition to find a polio vaccine began in 1938, when Franklin D Roosevelt (himself stricken with the disease) ... [Published Telegraph - Apr 15 2013]

Entities: Hilary Koprowski, Vaccine, Polio, Virus

First reported Apr 15 2013 - Updated Apr 15 2013 - 1 reports

Inventor of polio vaccine Koprowski dies at 96

Philadelphia, April 15: Dr Hilary Koprowski, a pioneering virologist who had developed the first effective oral vaccination for polio, has died recently in his Wynnewood home recently. He was 96.Koprowski, a Polish by birth, became the first to show in ... [Published Oneindia - Apr 15 2013]

Entities: Hilary Koprowski, Vaccine, Albert Sabin, Polio, Wistar Institute

First reported Apr 15 2013 - Updated Apr 15 2013 - 1 reports

Pioneer behind Polio vaccine dies at 96

Dr Hilary Koprowski, the Polish-born virologist who developed the first successful oral vaccination for polio, died this week at his Philadelphia home. He was 96.Although not as well-known as fellow researchers Jonas Salk and Albert Sabin, Koprowski’s ... [Published EHealth Magazine - Apr 15 2013]

Entities: Hilary Koprowski, Polio Vaccine, Albert Sabin, Jonas Salk, Vaccine

First reported Apr 14 2013 - Updated Apr 15 2013 - 1 reports

Polio vaccine developer Koprowski dies

Koprowski developed an oral vaccine using the live polio virus that was first used on humans in 1950.Koprowski's son Christopher says his father's vaccine was the first to show clinical success. Salk famously developed an injectable version later while ... [Published Chambersburg Public Opinion - Apr 14 2013]

Entities: Hilary Koprowski, Polio Vaccine, Vaccine, Albert Sabin, Wistar Institute

First reported Apr 14 2013 - Updated Apr 14 2013 - 1 reports

Man responsible for eradicating polio from the world, dies at 96

Philadelphia: The man who developed the first successful oral polio vaccination passed away this week in Philadelphia.Dr. Hilary Koprowski died at the age of 96. His 1950 clinical trial was the first to show that it was medically possible to treat the ... [Published Daily Bhaskar - Apr 14 2013]

Entities: Hilary Koprowski, Polio, Vaccine, Philadelphia (Pennsylvania, United States)

Quotes

"And while we still have much to pursue with this early clinical finding, I firmly believe this gives us hope that one day we can control -- and eventually eradicate -- HIV in absence of antiretroviral therapy."

Small US trial looks at body's ability to fight HIV [Published Yahoo! Singapore - May 21 2013]

"For a T cell to become fully activated, you have to give it two signals," said the NCI's Lee. "Only once that happens can it go on and carry out its function."

Therapy programs patients' own cells to fight cancer [Published Philly.com - May 19 2013]

...NDRI President, Bill Leinweber, said, "NDRI’s contributions to the pilot phase of GTEx were critical. With leadership from our staff, Dr JohnJohn Lonsdale, vice president of research, and Jeff ThomasThomas vicevice president of donor services and sourcing, we look forward to continuing to contribute to the land-mark contributions of the GTEx project to biomedical research. I want to acknowledge the significant support from the National Cancer Institute’s Biorespository and Biospecimen Research Branch and contract management services at SAIC-Frederick."

NDRI Awarded $5.9M by NIH for Genotype-Tissue (GTEx) Project Scale Up [Published Business Wire - May 16 2013]

"Without Ggamma13, the mice cannot smell," said senior author Liquan Huang, PhD, a molecular biologist at Monell. "This raises the possibility that mutations in the Ggamma13 gene may contribute to certain forms of human anosmia and that gene sequencing may be able to predict some instances of smell loss."

Monell scientists identify critical link in mammalian odor detection [Published EurekAlert! - May 06 2013]

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