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December 11, 2024
Nora Disis receives 2024 Health Care Leadership Lifetime Achievement Award
She was honored for her work on breast cancer vaccines, which has paved the way for a groundbreaking approach to treating one of the nation’s leading causes of death.
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Dr. Mary L. (Nora) Disis, professor (Hematology and Oncology) is the 2024 recipient of the Health Care Leadership Lifetime Achievement Award from the Puget Sound Business Journal.
Disis is an expert in breast and ovarian cancer immunology and translational research. She is one of the pioneering investigators who discovered that HER-2/neu is a tumor antigen. Her work has led to several clinical trials which evaluate boosting immunity to HER-2/neu with cancer vaccines.
“Being able to go from not having any understanding of the immunogenicity of breast cancer to now treating breast cancer with immune therapy, having many people now developing vaccines for breast cancer … is extremely gratifying," Disis said.