Professor Mariana Brandao

Mariana Brandão obtained her Master’s Degree in Medicine and underwent a residency program on Medical Oncology in Porto. She then moved to Institut Jules Bordet in 2017, in Brussels, for a research fellowship and completed her PhD at the University of Porto. Since 2021 she is working at the Clinic of Thoracic Oncology and at the Phase I Clinical Trials Unit of Institut Jules Bordet and she is a Faculty member of the Université Libre de Bruxelles. She is developing a research project on the role of neutrophils in the development of non-small cell lung cancer at Prof. Meylan’s lab. In addition, she actively participates as Principal Investigator or sub-PI in multiple phase 1 to phase 3 clinical trials at Institut Jules Bordet. She is also the Treasurer of the European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) Lung Cancer Group and member of multiple European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) Committees.