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Discovery Starts with The Wistar Institute’s Cellular Biologist Michela Perego, Ph.D.

Discovery Starts with The Wistar Institute’s Cellular Biologist Michela Perego, Ph.D.

Posing for a photo in the hallway at The Wistar Institute dressed in a white lab coat and smiling at a camera, cellular biologist Michela Perego, Ph.D., shared a little secret: Working as a scientist in a lab isn’t as glamorous as it appears on TV.

As Perego explained, the long hours spent in the lab can be draining, and the perseverance required to keep moving forward amid setbacks can be frustrating. But despite what Hollywood’s depictions may gloss over, Perego said, in her opinion, working as a […]

April 15th, 2025|Corporate Culture, Largest Employers, Life Sciences, Livability, Our News, Philadelphia, Workforce|0 Comments

Discovery Starts with Comcast’s Jaylen Sanders

Discovery Starts with Comcast’s Jaylen Sanders

In the heart of Greater Philadelphia, where history meets innovation, Comcast Software Engineer Jaylen Sanders embodies the region’s signature spirit of innovation, imagination, genuineness, and grit.

Sanders is “Philly homegrown” as he says it. He started his career in technology at Comcast, an investor in the Chamber of Commerce for Greater Philadelphia (the Chamber), in 2015 as a software engineering intern and is currently employed there as a full-time Software Engineer. Sanders said working at Comcast is a natural fit for him, as he […]

September 18th, 2024|Corporate Culture, Innovation, Largest Employers, Livability, Our News, Philadelphia, Technology, Videos, Workforce|0 Comments

Award-Winning Biotech Training Program to Begin Recruitment with New Employer Partner in Life Sciences

Award-Winning Biotech Training Program to Begin Recruitment with New Employer Partner in Life Sciences

The West Philadelphia Skills Initiative and The Wistar Institute are collaborating once again with support from the Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation and the Chamber of Commerce for Greater Philadelphia to bring their award-winning expansion of Wistar’s Biomedical Technician Training Program to a new partner, VintaBio, Inc. This workforce development training will support the talent needs of the rapidly growing cell and gene therapy manufacturing organization.

In the spring of 2023, VintaBio emerged from stealth with its newly appointed CEO, Dr. David Radspinner, $64 million in funding, and a purpose-built gene therapy manufacturing facility in The Navy Yard. Building on this success, […]

January 17th, 2024|Awards/Rankings, Cell and Gene Therapy, Corporate Culture, Innovation, Largest Employers, Life Sciences, Our News, Talent Announcements, Workforce|0 Comments

Discovery Starts with Roquette’s Morrison Boateng, Jr.

Discovery Starts with Roquette’s Morrison Boateng, Jr.

For Morrison Boateng, Jr., a Pharmaceutical Application Scientist at Roquette, a Chamber member company, the search for a family-friendly community and a region well-equipped to advance his career led him to Greater Philadelphia.

“I grew up in Ghana, West Africa, until I was 16,” said Boateng. “Then my family and I moved to the Bronx, and I finished high school and earned my undergraduate and graduate degrees in New York. After 17 years in New York, it was time to figure out where my wife and I […]

January 17th, 2024|Cell and Gene Therapy, Corporate Culture, Life Sciences, Our News, Talent Announcements, Workforce|0 Comments

Discovery Starts with SAPA-GP and Amicus Therapeutics’ Haichen Yang, MD, MA, MBA

Discovery Starts with SAPA-GP and Amicus Therapeutics’ Haichen Yang, MD, MA, MBA

Freshly graduated from medical school, Dr. Haichen Yang embarked on her journey to the U.S. With 30 years of experience developing new medicine under her belt, her relentless desire to learn and stay at the forefront of the biopharmaceutical sector all comes down to helping people.

Throughout her endeavor, Dr. Yang, Vice President of Clinical Research at Amicus Therapeutics, developed a specific interest in neuroscience and rare diseases and used her skills to bring new drugs to market. Dr. Yang has led […]

November 21st, 2023|Cell and Gene Therapy, Corporate Culture, Innovation, Life Sciences, Our News, Talent Announcements, Workforce|0 Comments

Drexel awarded $14M NIH grant to recruit diverse faculty for health disparities research