The mission of the wistar institute is to marshal the talents of outstanding scientists through a highly enabled culture of biomedical collaboration and innovation in order to solve some of the world's most challenging and important problems in the field of cancer and immunology, and produce ground-breaking advances in world health. Consistent with a pioneering legacy of leadership in not-for-profit biomedical research and a track-record of life-saving contributions in immunology and CELL biology, the wistar institute AIMS to pursue novel and courageous research paths to life science discovery, and to accelerate/potentiate the impact of those discoveries by shortening the path from bench to bedside.