Melina Elpi Marmarelis, MD
Medical Oncology, Hematology
Accepting new patients
Sees patients age 18 and up
Abramson Cancer Center Perelman 2nd Floor West
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About me

  • Medical Director, Penn Mesothelioma Program
  • Assistant Professor of Medicine (Hematology-Oncology) at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

Education and training

  • Medical School: Harvard Medical School
  • Residency: Mass General Brigham Healthcare Center - Chestnut Hill
  • Residency: University of Pennsylvania Health System

What my patients think about me

Average Rating

422 reviews

Comments are submitted by patients and reflect their views and opinions. The comments are not endorsed by and do not necessarily reflect the views of Penn Medicine.

Anonymous
February 2026
friendly easy going doctor
Anonymous
February 2026
my provider was attentive and knowledgeable and able to explain my test results, outlining a plan of action.
Anonymous
February 2026
answered all my questions and very reassuring very compassionate
Anonymous
February 2026
friendly, courteous and knowledgeable.

Insurance accepted

My Locations

Penn Medicine hospital privileges

  • Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
  • Penn Presbyterian Medical Center: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
Dr. Marmarelis is a Penn Medicine physician.

Qualifications and experience

Treatments and Conditions

My research

Benjamin A. Bleiberg, Dylan G. Scholes, Lauren Reed-Guy, Devaki Dravid, Lova L. Sun, Aditi P. Singh, Roger B. Cohen, Corey J. Langer, Melina E. Marmarelis, Charu Aggarwal The incremental value of liquid biopsy in the initial evaluation of patients with metastatic non-small cell lung cancer undergoing tissue-based molecular testing , The Journal of Liquid Biopsy, 12: 2026


Benjamin A. Bleiberg, Lauren Reed-Guy, Roger B. Cohen, Charu Aggarwal, Corey J. Langer, Aditi P. Singh, Melina E. Marmarelis Carboplatin plus Pemetrexed versus Pemetrexed alone in Advanced Thymoma and Thymic Carcinoma: A Retrospective Cohort Study , Frontiers: 2026


Benjamin T. Cooper, Jeffrey D. Bradley, Sushma Patel, Michael A. Pritchett, Steven J. Feigenberg, Kevin C. Ma, Isaac Laniado, Melina E. Marmarelis, Matthew Scarlotta, Joshua K. Sabari, Yi-Wen Ma, Yina Kuang, Kiran Devisetty, Balaji Laxmanan, David M. DiBardino Novel Intratumoral Radioenhancer (JNJ -1900) with Chemoradiation and Consolidative Immunotherapy for Stage III Unresectable Non -Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC): Early Outcomes from the Phase II CONVERGE Study , ELCC 2026 Poster: 2026


Adam Barsouk, Alec Heidlauf, Keshav Goel, Lynn Rushkin, Anna Anran Huang, Omar Elghawy, Connie Yu, Lucy Wang, David Yang, Martin Kurian, Lauren Reed-Guy, Lova Sun, Aditi Singh, Charu Aggarwal, Roger B. Cohen, Corey Langer, Melina E. Marmarelis Osimertinib Dose-Reduction and Survival in First-Line EGFR-Mutated mNSCLC , Lung Cancer, 213: 2026,108936


Michael Offin...Melina E. Marmarelis eVOLVE-02 SS5 Meso TiP Abstract entitled: Volrustomig, a novel bispecific PD-1/CTLA-4 monoclonal antibody, as single-agent first-line therapy for unresectable pleural mesothelioma (PM): Substudy 5 of the eVOLVE-02 phase 2 study. , ELCC March 2026: 2026


Pascale Tomasini, MD, MSc, Yongsheng Wang, MD, Yongsheng Li, MD, PhD, Enriqueta Felip, MD, PhD, Lin Wu, MD, Jiuwei Cui, MD, PhD, Benjamin Besse, MD, PhD, Alexander I. Spira, MD, PhD, Joel W. Neal, MD, Ph, Koichi Goto, MD, PhD, Christina S. Baik, MD, MPH, Melina E. Marmarelis, MD, Eiki Ichihara, MD, PhD, Yiping Zhang, MD, Jong-Seok Lee, MD, PhD, Se-Hoon Lee, MD, PhD, James Chih-Hsin Yang, MD, PhD, Sebastian Michels, MD, Zacharias Anastasiou, MS, Joshua C. Curtin, PhD, Xuesong Lyu, PhD, Janine Mahoney, BSN, RN, Levon Demirdjian, PhD, Craig S. Meyer, MS, PhD, MPH, Youyi Zhang, PhD, Isabelle Leconte, PhD, Patricia Lorenzini, MS, Roland E. Knoblauch, MD, PhD, Leonardo Trani, MD, Mahadi Baig, MD, Joshua M. Bauml, MD, Byoung Chul Cho, MD, PhD Amivantamab Plus Lazertinib in Atypical EGFR-Mutated Advanced Non–Small Cell Lung Cancer: Results From CHRYSALIS-2 , Journal of Clinical Oncology, 44(1): 2026,54-65.


Melina E. Marmarelis, Meijia Zhou, Sajjad Raza, Qing Huang, Kiran Devisetty, Balaji Laxmanan, Rachael L. DiSantostefano, Iftekhar Kalsekar, Daniel Goomez Real-world Utilization and Outcomes with Pacific Regimen in Stage III Unresectable Non-small Cell Lung Cancer Patients: Results from a Multicenter US Database , ESMO Annual Meeting 2025: 2025


Melina E. Marmarelis, Katherina C. Chua, Aisha Hasan, Jorge Da Silva, Stewart Bates, Assieh Saadatpour, Qing Huang Real-World Characterization of Response Kinetics in Patients with Metastatic NSCLC Receiving First-Line Immunotherapy , IASLC WCLC 25: 2025


Mariam Alexander, Ying Cheng, Se-Hoon Lee, Antonio Passaro, Alexander I. Spira, Byoung Chul Cho, Sun Min Lim, Yuichiro Ohe, Adnan Nagrial, Jiunn Liang Tan, Vanina Wainsztein, Elisa Ramos, Maria del Rosario Garcia Campelo, Hiroaki Akamatsu, Danny Nguyen, Alexis B. Cortot, Alona Zer, Dilek Erdem, Rachel E. Sanborn, Till-Oliver Emde, Anna R. Minchom, Bogdan Zurawski, Maria Lurdes Ferreira, James Chih-Hsin Yang, Melina E. Marmarelis, Julia Schuchard, Jefferson Alves, Debopriya Ghosh, Gregor Balaburski, Remy B. Verheijen, Liliana Ribeiro, Mohamed Gamil, Joshua M. Bauml, Mahadi Baig, Natasha B. Leighl Subcutaneous Versus Intravenous Amivantamab, Both in Combination With Lazertinib, in Refractory EGFR-mutated Non-small Cell Lung Cancer: Patient Satisfaction and Resource Utilization Results from the PALOMA-3 Study , European Journal of Cancer, 227: 2025,115624.


Lauren Reed-Guy, Melina E. Mamarelis Immunotherapy for Resectable Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer - Not If, But When , JAMA Network Open, 8(6): 2025,e2517962.