If my face and name are familiar to you, it’s because I have been at Johns Hopkins since I was 18 years old. I grew up here, and as you’ll read in the story, I have been mentored by the best urologists in the world, including Patrick Walsh, Louis Kavoussi, and Alan Partin. 

The Brady has an unrivaled legacy as the home of world-class Urology, and I am proud to be its new Director. We have packed these pages of Discovery with news about some of our most important initiatives — and we have barely scratched the surface! This is a vital, exciting place, and I hope we can convey some of the energy, enthusiasm and dedication you’ll find here at the Brady.

In this issue, you’ll read about genetic insights into the causes of life-threatening prostate cancer in Black men, a beautiful friendship between a doctor and his patients, gut bugs and metastatic prostate cancer, exercise, immunotherapy and metastatic kidney cancer, and DNA damage-repair gene mutations in bladder cancer. And much more!

Our faculty and staff are committed to making life better for our patients. Their work is excellent, and I am proud to share it with you.

Mohamad E. Allaf, M.D.
Jakurski Family Director
The James Buchanan Brady Urological Institute
Johns Hopkins Medicine