text: Gemma Owens is a clinical research fellow and registrar in obstetrics and gynaecology with a specialist interest in gynaecological cancers. She attended Medical School at Queen’s University (Belfast), and completed an Academic Clinical Fellowship at St Mary’s Hospital, Manchester. She has recently completed a PhD at the University of Manchester, where she worked with Professor Robert Hawkins, Professor Richard Edmondson and Dr David Gilham. Her PhD focused on adoptive immunotherapy strategies for epithelial ovarian cancer, working on both TIL and CAR-T cell approaches. In collaboration with Oxford Biomedica, Gemma has demonstrated that 5T4 is an attractive target for CAR-T cell therapy in ovarian cancer.