PHILADELPHIA, PA — The Wistar Institute has appointed Vincent Wu, Ph.D., as a Caspar Wistar Fellow within its Vaccine & Immunotherapy Center, bringing on a rising HIV researcher whose hybrid expertise in molecular biology and computational analysis positions him to tackle some of the field’s most complex scientific problems.
Wu, who began studying HIV-2 as an undergraduate, joins Wistar with a decade of experience examining how HIV replicates, hides, and persists inside the body. His postdoctoral work in the University of Pennsylvania laboratory of Dr. Michael Betts focused on single-cell profiling methods, which allow researchers to identify the traits and behavior of individual cells involved in HIV infection. Wu pairs that hands-on bench science with computational tools that interpret vast datasets.
He describes the divide between molecular biologists and bioinformaticians as a challenge he hopes to bridge. From his perspective, laboratory and computational research often operate in different scientific languages…