Classic sexism propelled Dr. Nora Disis into breast cancer research. “I was the only woman in my oncology fellowship class, so they had me attend the breast cancer clinic.” The old boys’ club gets a pass this time because Disis, director of the Cancer Vaccine Institute at UW Medicine and a University of Washington and Fred Hutch Cancer Center faculty member, is on the verge of the greatest accomplishment of her 30-plus-year career: a breast cancer vaccine.
Last November in the medical journal JAMA Oncology, Disis and her team published the phase 1 trial results of a DNA vaccine targeting a protein known as human
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