Mary L. (Nora) Disis, MD

Mary L. (Nora) Disis, MD, is the Athena Distinguished Professor of Breast Cancer Research, Associate Dean for Translational Health Sciences in the University of Washington (UW) School of Medicine, Professor of Medicine and Adjunct Professor of Pathology and Obstetrics and Gynecology at UW, and a Member of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. She is the Director of the Institute of Translational Health Science and the Center for Translational Medicine in Women’s Health at UW. Dr. Disis is an expert in breast and ovarian cancer immunology and translational research. Her research interest is in the discovery of new molecular immunologic targets in breast and ovarian cancer for the development of vaccine and cellular therapy for the treatment and prevention of those malignancies. In addition, her group evaluates the use of the immune system to aid in the diagnosis of cancer and develops novel assays and approaches to quantitate and characterize human immunity. She holds several patents in the field of targeted cancer therapy and cancer diagnostics. Dr. Disis is a member of Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society, the American Society of Clinical Investigation, and the Association of American Physicians. She is the Deputy Editor for the Journal of Clinical Oncology.