Dr. Julie R. Brahmer is a highly accomplished medical professional and researcher with a wealth of education and experience in her field. She is the Director of the Thoracic Oncology Program, Professor of Oncology at the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins and the Marilyn Meyerhoff Professor in Thoracic Oncology. Additionally, she directs the Kimmel Cancer Center on the Johns Hopkins Bayview campus and is co-principal investigator on Johns Hopkins' National Clinical Trials Network.

Dr. Brahmer received her undergraduate degree in Chemistry and Philosophy in 1989 from Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska. She went on to receive her medical degree from the University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Medicine in 1993. After completing her internship and residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Utah, she became the Chief Medical Resident and later moved to Baltimore to complete her fellowship in Medical Oncology at the Kimmel Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins.

Dr. Brahmer is a leading expert in the treatment of lung cancer and mesothelioma. She leads the organization of the multidisciplinary thoracic malignancy conference, whose members meet weekly to discuss thoracic malignancy cases that need a multidisciplinary review/approach. Her research and clinical practice focus on the development of new therapies for the treatment and prevention of lung cancer and mesothelioma.

Dr. Brahmer's research interests include leading early phase immunotherapy trials of anti-PD-1 antibodies, international phase III studies of immunotherapies in lung cancer and investigator-initiated trials evaluating epigenetic therapies in combination with immunotherapies.

She is a member of the American Society of Clinical Oncology and the Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) Thoracic Committee and Cancer Prevention Steering Committee. She is also a founding Board member for the National Lung Cancer Partnership (formerly Women Against Lung Cancer) and serves as a member and Chairman of the Scientific Executive Committee. She is also on the medical advisory board of the Lung Cancer Research Fund and the Mesothelioma Applied Research Foundation.

Dr. Brahmer can be reached at the Johns Hopkins Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, 401 N. Broadway, Baltimore, MD 21231. Her contact number is 410-502-7159.