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Meet the Cancer Vaccine Institute Team

The Cancer Vaccine Institute is a group of multidisciplinary investigators who work to support a comprehensive research effort that evaluates the role of the immune system in modulating cancer, while developing novel therapies that will impact the lives of people with the disease.

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Tess Bayon

Fiscal Specialist

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Jennifer Blume

UW Medicine Advancement
Director for Philanthropy

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Denise Cecil, PhD

Principal Scientist

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Aida Chan

Student Assistant

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Daniel Chang

Research Assistant

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Rebecca Cheung

UW Medicine Advancement
Director for Corporate and Foundation Relations

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Jennifer Childs

Director of Clinical Operations

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Lauren Corulli

Director of Operations

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Andrew Coveler, MD

Associate Professor, Division of Medical Oncology

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Yushe Dang, PhD

Senior Scientist

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Madeline Dennis, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow

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Kiran Dhillon, PhD

Executive Director

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Mary (Nora) Disis, MD

CVI Director
Associate Dean, Translational Science
Professor of Medicine and Adjunct Professor of Pathology and Obstetrics and Gynecology
Helen B. Slonaker Endowed Professorship for Cancer Research
American Cancer Society Clinical Research Professor

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Will Gwin, MD

Assistant Professor

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Katie Hitchcock-Bernhardt

Research Scientist II

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Tieng-Ying Hsiang

Senior Scientist

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David E. Johnson, PhD

Invent Scholar at Seattle Children’s Research Institute
Postdoctoral Researcher

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Katelyn Jones

Research Coordinator

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John Liao, MD, PhD

Associate Professor, Obstetrics and Gynecology

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Ying Liu, PhD

Biostatistician

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Brady Lucas

UW Medicine Advancement
Associate Director for Philanthropy

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Aya Miyaki

Graduate Student

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Doug Mounce

Grant Manager

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Leila Okahata

Communications Coordinator

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Marcy Paxtian

Student Assistant

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Adam Prince

Research Scientist II

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June R

Research Scientist II

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Erin Rodmaker

Research Scientist III

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Danielle Renea Rodriguez

Research Scientist I

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Huiyun Shen, PhD

Research Scientist III

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Meera Suresh

Graduate Student

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Jina Taub

Nurse Practitioner

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Shaveta Vinayak, MD

Director of Clinical Trials

Principal Investigator

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Xuanyu Wu

Student Assistant

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Yi Yang

Research Scientist III

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