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The Wistar Institute, 3601 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA, circa 2008.
Credit: Courtesy of The Wistar Institute, Wistar Archive Collection, Philadelphia, Pa., James Hayden, photographer
Located on the University of Pennsylvania campus in West Philadelphia, the Wistar Institute is an independent nonprofit biomedical research institute with more than thirty laboratories. Founded in 1892 as the first independent first institution if its kind in the nation, the Institute today is an international leader in basic biomedical research.