Nina is Professor of Medicine (Hematology and Medical Oncology) and Urology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, where she holds the Ward Coleman Chair in Cancer Research. She serves as Director of Immunotherapy, Medical Director of the Vaccine and Cell Therapy Laboratory, and Co-Director of the Cancer Immunology Program at The Tisch Cancer Institute. An internationally recognized leader in dendritic cell biology, Nina has made seminal contributions to understanding antigen presentation, developing Toll-Like Receptor agonist- and dendritic cell-based vaccines, and pioneering neoantigen vaccine studies. She has authored over 200 publications and received numerous honors, including Scientific American’s Top 50 Researchers award and the Fred W. Alt Award for new discoveries in Immunology.