Cancer Vaccine Institute News

The CVI is grateful to one of our longest and most generous donors—Wings of Karen. Kristi Blair established this foundation in honor of her

CVI Director, Dr. Nora Disis was featured in a recent Women Trailblazers at UW Medicine virtual event which was moderated by Dr. Shaveta Vin

The CVI is developing vaccines for breast, colon, ovarian, prostate, pancreatic, sarcoma, lung, and bladder cancers. While our early...

oreen has dedicated over 15 years to being a fierce advocate for our research participants.

The Cancer Vaccine Institute has launched a Patient Advisory Council as part of our efforts to increase patient engagement and education.

We could not waiver on our mission to develop cancer vaccines and other immune therapies and must keep progressing our research.

We're excited to announce a new clinical trail for advanced stage HER2+ breast cancer, in partnership with Veana Therapeutics.

Check out this American Cancer Society Theory Lab podcast featuring the CVI's fearless leader, Dr. Nora Disis.

Dr. Nora Disis, CVI Director, discusses her career path as a physician-scientist with ASCO Connection

Dr. Disis discusses the importance of clinical trials with Seattle's KOMO 4 News. Read the more here.

Personalized cancer vaccines in clinical trials article in The Scientist (July 2019)

Dr Nora Disis talks to Teresa Lukens of PBS about groundbreaking work being done at the University of Washington Medicine Cancer Vaccine Ins

KIRO7 News story on UW Medicine working to develop new breast cancer vaccine (Apr 2018)

CNBC piece on cancer immunotherapy (Apr 2018).

The Inlander (Spokane) interviews Dr. Disis on how vaccines are on the way to help battle cancer and prevent relapses.

Kristi Blair, CVI Development Council Member shares her personaly and family cancer connection on the UW Medicine Advancement website (2017)

Scientists and donors create community - and cancer vaccines.

Dr. Disis voted one of Seattle's top doctors for 2017 in Seattle Magazine! (Feb 2017)

Rivkin Center shares the importance of research for ovarian cancer, featuring Dr. Nora Disis. (Nov 2016)

Dr. Disis presents "Polyvalent Vaccine Targeting Oncogenic Driver Pathways" talk at the NCI Cancer Prevention Program (Jul 2016).