Thank you to our donors!

Thank you to our donors!

Since January 2026, the donors recognized below have provided major philanthropic gifts to The Wistar Institute. Their generosity represents not just support, but conviction and confidence in biomedical science, long term inquiry, and discoveries that do not yet have names. We offer our sincere gratitude for these significant investments and for the momentum they create across Wistar’s research enterprise.

• A commitment from George Ahern has established a new endowed fund to sustain the Life Science Innovation competition in perpetuity. Read more here.
• Wistar received an incredible provision from the Estate of the late Esther “Penny” Fox. Read about Penny and her late husband Bob Fox’s incredible involvement at Wistar.
• Jane and Joseph Goldblum continued their giving, as part of a 10-year commitment, to provide a significant award to advance a specific innovative research project or researcher’s lab at Wistar each year.
• Mr. and Mrs. I. Wistar Morris fulfilled a multi-year pledge underwriting a five-year Cotswold Postdoctoral Fellowship at Wistar which was awarded to Min Jeong Yeon, PhD.
• Lily and Richard Siegel continued their dedicated support of high school and undergraduate programming through Wistar’s Hubert J.P. Schoemaker Education & Training Center.
• The Tobin Family Foundation – Mr. and Mrs. Joseph D. Kestenbaum, Mr. Steven Tobin and Dr. Lynne Tobin – supported pancreatic cancer research through a contribution to their family’s named fund: The Tobin Family Memorial Fund for Pancreatic Cancer Research.

The gold standard of giving, unrestricted contributions enable Wistar to deploy flexible funding where it is needed most, seize time‑sensitive opportunities, and catalyze high‑impact research and pilot initiatives that would otherwise go unfunded. Additional major support for Wistar’s general needs was received from: Drs. Paul and Bonnie Offit, Mrs. Corinne J. Stahl, and The Tobin Family Foundation.