Ingunn Stromnes PhD

Dr. Ingunn Stromnes is currently an associate professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Minnesota. She received her PhD from the University of Washington in 2007. As a postdoctoral scientist at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, she developed a novel and promising immunotherapy by genetically engineering T-cells to invade and attack pancreatic cancer without the toxic side effects of chemotherapy.

Her postdoctoral studies were conducted under the mentorship of Pancreatic Cancer Action Network (PanCAN) research grant recipients Drs. Philip Greenberg and Sunil Hingorani. In 2017, Dr. Stromnes established her laboratory at the University of Minnesota. Also in 2017, Dr. Stromnes received the Skip Viragh Career Development Award from PanCAN. Dr. Stromnes’ current research interests focus on integrating basic cancer immunology research with clinical translation of new cellular immunotherapies for pancreatic cancer patient treatment.