Nora Disis

Dr. Disis is the Co-Investigator responsible for immune monitoring. Dr. Disis is the Associate Dean for Translational Health Sciences in the UW School of Medicine, Professor of Medicine and Adjunct Professor of Pathology and Obstetrics and Gynecology at UW, and a Member of the FHCRC. She is the Director of both the UW Institute of Translational Health Science and the Center for Translational Medicine in Women’s Health.

Dr. Disis is an expert in translational research in general and breast and ovarian cancer immunology and immunotherapy, specifically. Her research interest is in the discovery of new molecular immunologic targets in breast and ovarian cancer for the development of vaccine and T cell therapy for those malignancies. Her group evaluates the use of the immune system to diagnosis of cancer and develops novel assays and approaches to quantify and characterize human immunity.