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Overview

Mary L. Disis is affiliated with the University of Washington in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, with significant contributions across several subfields including oncology, general health professions, immunology, public health, environmental and occupational health, and molecular biology.

The main topics addressed in Mary L. Disis's research include:

  • Immunotherapy and Immune Responses
  • Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers
  • Healthcare cost, quality, practices
  • Health and Medical Research Impacts
  • Health Sciences Research and Education
  • Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education
  • Ethics in Clinical Research

Mary L. Disis has published extensively in high-impact journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • JAMA Oncology (10 publications)
  • Cancer Research (9 publications)
  • Regular and Young Investigator Award Abstracts (8 publications)
  • Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer (6 publications)
  • JAMA (6 publications)

Representative recent papers authored or coauthored by Mary L. Disis are:

  • Safety and Outcomes of a Plasmid DNA Vaccine Encoding the ERBB2 Intracellular Domain in Patients With Advanced-Stage ERBB2-Positive Breast Cancer, 2022, JAMA Oncology
  • Differentiation and Regulation of TH Cells: A Balancing Act for Cancer Immunotherapy, 2021, Frontiers in Immunology
  • Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC) clinical practice guideline on immunotherapy for the treatment of breast cancer, 2021, Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer
  • Therapeutic cancer vaccines revamping: technology advancements and pitfalls, 2021, Annals of Oncology
  • Flt3 ligand augments immune responses to anti-DEC-205-NY-ESO-1 vaccine through expansion of dendritic cell subsets, 2020, Nature Cancer

Frequent collaborators in their publications include:

  • Robert O. Bonow
  • Dimitri Christakis
  • Jay F. Piccirillo
  • Kanade Shinkai
  • Döst Öngür

Mary L. Disis is recognized as a member of the Association of American Physicians. Their work encompasses clinical research and healthcare education, intersecting translational medicine and immunotherapy, particularly in the context of cancer treatment strategies.

Best Publications

  • Specific recruitment of regulatory T cells in ovarian carcinoma fosters immune privilege and predicts reduced survival.

    Tyler J Curiel;George Coukos;Linhua Zou;Xavier Alvarez

  • Tumor antigen-specific T helper cells in cancer immunity and immunotherapy.

    K. L. Knutson;M. L. Disis

  • Clinical significance of tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes in breast cancer

    Sasha E. Stanton;Mary L. Disis

  • Gene expression markers of Tumor Infiltrating Leukocytes

    Patrick Danaher;Sarah Warren;Lucas Dennis;Leonard D’Amico

  • Toxicities of Immunotherapy for the Practitioner

    Jeffrey S. Weber;James C. Yang;Michael B. Atkins;Mary L. Disis

  • Existent T-cell and antibody immunity to HER-2/neu protein in patients with breast cancer.

    Mary L. Disis;Emanuel Calenoff;Graham McLaughlin;Ann E. Murphy

  • Variation in the Incidence and Magnitude of Tumor-Infiltrating Lymphocytes in Breast Cancer Subtypes: A Systematic Review

    Sasha E. Stanton;Sylvia Adams;Mary L. Disis

  • Immunization with a HER-2/neu helper peptide vaccine generates HER-2/neu CD8 T-cell immunity in cancer patients

    Keith L. Knutson;Kathy Schiffman;Mary L. Disis

  • Immune Regulation of Cancer

    Mary L. Disis

  • Generation of T-cell immunity to the HER-2/neu protein after active immunization with HER-2/neu peptide-based vaccines

    Mary L. Disis;Theodore A. Gooley;Kristine Rinn;Donna Davis

  • Generation of immunity to the HER-2/neu oncogenic protein in patients with breast and ovarian cancer using a peptide-based vaccine.

    Mary L. Disis;Kenneth H. Grabstein;Paul R. Sleath;Martin A. Cheever

  • Granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor: an effective adjuvant for protein and peptide-based vaccines

    Mary L. Disis;Helga Bernhard;Faith M. Shiota;Susan L. Hand

  • High-titer HER-2/neu protein-specific antibody can be detected in patients with early-stage breast cancer.

    Mary L. Disis;Serenella M. Pupa;Julie R. Gralow;Ruggero Dittadi

  • Efficacy and Safety of Avelumab for Patients With Recurrent or Refractory Ovarian Cancer: Phase 1b Results From the JAVELIN Solid Tumor Trial.

    Mary L. Disis;Mary L. Disis;Matthew H. Taylor;Karen Kelly;J. Thaddeus Beck

  • Current Landscape of Immunotherapy in Breast Cancer: A Review

    Sylvia Adams;Margaret E. Gatti-Mays;Kevin Kalinsky;Larissa A. Korde

  • Immunologic monitoring of cancer vaccine therapy: results of a workshop sponsored by the Society for Biological Therapy.

    Ulrich Keilholz;Jeffrey Weber;James H. Finke;Dmitry I. Gabrilovich

  • Generation of Immunostimulatory Dendritic Cells from Human CD34+ Hematopoietic Progenitor Cells of the Bone Marrow and Peripheral Blood

    Helga Bernhard;Mary L. Disis;Shelly Heimfeld;Susan Hand

  • Immunization of Cancer Patients with a HER-2/neu, HLA-A2 Peptide, p369–377, Results in Short-lived Peptide-specific Immunity

    Keith L. Knutson;Kathy Schiffman;Martin A. Cheever;Mary L. Disis

  • Transcriptome-Wide Studies of Merkel Cell Carcinoma and Validation of Intratumoral CD8+ Lymphocyte Invasion As an Independent Predictor of Survival

    Kelly G. Paulson;Jayasri G. Iyer;Andrew R. Tegeder;Renee Thibodeau

  • Concurrent Trastuzumab and HER2/neu-Specific Vaccination in Patients With Metastatic Breast Cancer

    Mary L. Disis;Danelle R. Wallace;Theodore A. Gooley;Yushe Dang

  • Peptide-based, but not whole protein, vaccines elicit immunity to HER-2/neu, oncogenic self-protein.

    Mary L. Disis;Julie R. Gralow;Helga Bernhard;Susan L. Hand

Frequent Co-Authors

Keith L. Knutson
Keith L. Knutson Mayo Clinic
Martin A. Cheever
Martin A. Cheever University of Washington
Holden T. Maecker
Holden T. Maecker Stanford University
Vernon C. Maino
Vernon C. Maino Becton Dickinson (United States)
Lisa H. Butterfield
Lisa H. Butterfield University of California, San Francisco
Robert O. Bonow
Robert O. Bonow Northwestern University
Rita F. Redberg
Rita F. Redberg University of California, San Francisco
Frederick P. Rivara
Frederick P. Rivara University of Washington
Stephan Heckers
Stephan Heckers Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Neil M. Bressler
Neil M. Bressler Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

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