Dr Yasser Ged

Yasser Ged, MBBS, is an Assistant Professor of Oncology and the Director of Kidney Cancer Research at the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University. A board-certified medical oncologist with training from the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland and advanced fellowship at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Dr. Ged specializes in genitourinary malignancies, with a clinical and research focus on renal cell carcinoma.

Dr. Ged’s translational and clinical research program centers on developing personalized therapies in kidney cancer, spanning PARP inhibition and DNA damage repair mechanisms, radioligand and theranostic development, and machine-learning-based biomarker discovery integrating genomic, metabolic, and immunologic data.

Dr. Ged co-leads the Kidney Cancer Program at Johns Hopkins, co-chairs the ECOG-ACRIN Renal Cancer Subcommittee, and serves on the NCCN Kidney Cancer Guidelines Panel and the NCI Renal Task Force, where he contributes to national trial development, research strategy, and mentorship initiatives.