CERC Review Panel Biographies- Denise Galloway

Dr. Denise Galloway is a cancer biologist at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, Washington, and a research professor in microbiology at the University of Washington School of Medicine. She is also a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, an honour given to members of the Association by their peers.

Galloway studies the role of human papilloma viruses (HPVs) in cancer development. She and her colleagues firmly established that nearly all cervical cancers—a leading cause of cancer deaths in women worldwide—and the majority of other anogenital cancers, are caused by HPVs.

Breakthrough studies by Galloway’s lab and others laid the groundwork for GARDASIL®, a vaccine that protects against the two most common cancer-causing HPVs.

Galloway is a graduate of The City University of New York. Her PhD is in biological sciences.