Women Scientists Advancing Cancer Research | UW Medicine Advancement

Watch a pioneering breast cancer researcher speak about her work to develop cancer vaccines to treat and prevent cancer.

Join Nora Disis, MD, associate dean of translational science at the University of Washington and the director of the Cancer Vaccine Institute, for a candid conversation with UW Medicine oncologist Shaveta Vinayak, MD. You’ll hear about the exciting advancements in cancer research, Dr. Disis’s rise to become an international expert in immunotherapy and her advice to other women scientists.

The Cancer Vaccine Institute (CVI) at UW Medicine was established 20 years ago by Dr. Disis, known as the “Mother of Cancer Vaccines,” and is a collaboration of scientists, doctors, nurses, patients and philanthropists all working together to outsmart cancer. Dr. Disis and the team of researchers at the Cancer Vaccine Institute at UW Medicine in Seattle are developing vaccines for breast, colon, ovarian, prostate, pancreatic, sarcoma, lung and bladder cancers.

Researchers at the Cancer Vaccine Institute are closer than ever to making cancer a preventable, treatable condition. But they can’t do it without your generous and visionary support.