Her work considered the stem cells that generate blood and the microenvironment of bone marrow.

[2][3] She became interested in biology during high school, then was an undergraduate student at PennWest Edinboro.

[5] Torok-Storb joined the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in 1978 and studied stem cells and the microenvironment of bone marrow.

The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute awarded Torok-Storb a $16.7 million grant to develop stem cell therapies.

[8] Torok-Storb also worked with an animal model that could predict the outcomes of hematopoietic stem cell transplants in humans.