Dr. Disis is the Helen B. Slonaker Endowed Professor for Cancer Research at the University of Washington (UW), Professor of Medicine and Adjunct Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and Obstetrics and Gynecology at UW and a Professor at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center. She is the Director of UW Medicine’s Cancer Vaccine Institute. Her research interest is in the discovery of new immunologic targets in solid tumors for the development of vaccines for the treatment and prevention of common 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 immunotherapy and immune-based diagnostics. Dr. Disis is a member of the American Society of Clinical Investigation and the Association of American Physicians. She is an American Cancer Society Professor, a Deputy Editor at JAMA, and the Editor-in-Chief of JAMA Oncology.