Speakers

Dr Jemma Longley is a Consultant Medical Oncologist with a specialist interest in gynaecological malignancies and an Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer in Cancer Sciences at the University of Southampton. She completed her PhD under the supervision of Professor Peter Johnson and Mark Cragg at the Centre for Cancer Immunology, investigating microRNA manipulation of macrophage polarisation within the tumour microenvironment. During her lectureship, her research has shifted to the investigation of microRNAs as biomarkers in early detection strategies.

She is chief investigator of the VIOLET study, which aims to develop a community based multi-cancer early detection tool for women with ovarian cancer using biomarkers in vaginal fluid in collaboration with an industrial partner Daye and funded by the Eve Appeal. Dr Longley also collaborates with research leaders at Oxford University through the VIOLET study to aid in the development of prophylactic cancer vaccines.