Disis at the Cancer Vaccine Institute laboratory at the University of Washington

Mary L. "Nora" Disis is an American physician-oncologist and the editor in chief of JAMA Oncology.

She was part of the scientific team who discovered that the HER2/neu molecule is a tumor-specific marker, or antigen.

Career

Disis is an oncologist[1] and the director of the University of Washington's Cancer Vaccine Institute, Center for Translational Medicine in Women's Health and its Institute of Translational Health Science.[2]

She is the associate dean of the University of Washington's School of Medicine, the dean of Research and Graduate Education, the associate dean of Translational Science, the Helen B. Slonaker Endowed Professor for Cancer Research, a professor of Medicine and Oncology, and an adjunct professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Pathology.[2]

She is an investigator at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center[3] and an expert in immunology and the immunotherapy of both ovarian and breast cancers.[4] She was part of the investigative team who discovered that the HER2/neu molecule is a tumor-specific marker, or antigen.[4][5]

She is the founding editor in chief of JAMA Oncology.[2]

Selected publications

References

  1. ↑ Schmidt, Charles (Nov 2015). "Immunology: Another shot at cancer". Nature. 527 (7578): S105–S107. Bibcode:2015Natur.527S.105S. doi:10.1038/527S105a. ISSN 1476-4687. PMID 26580157. S2CID 4463236.
  2. 1 2 3 "For Authors | JAMA Oncology | JAMA Network". jamanetwork.com. Retrieved 2022-04-07.
  3. ↑ Disis, Mary L. (2015-04-01). "Announcing JAMA Oncology". JAMA Oncology. 1 (1): 15–16. doi:10.1001/jamaoncol.2014.239. ISSN 2374-2437. PMID 26182296. S2CID 11913399.
  4. 1 2 "Mary L. (Nora) Disis, M.D." Fred Hutch. Retrieved 2022-04-07.
  5. ↑ Daher, Natalie (2018-04-12). "A new, personalized vaccine is targeting the deadliest cancers in America". CNBC. Retrieved 2022-04-07.
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