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Dr. Luke Hill is an Associate Professor in Medical Oncology at the University of Southampton. He completed his undergraduate medical degree at Brighton and Sussex Medical School in 2012 and obtained an intercalated BSc in Infectious Diseases and Immunobiology from King's College London in 2010. After completing postgraduate medical training in the Wessex region and achieving a national training number in Medical Oncology in 2016, he held specialty training positions at Southampton General Hospital and Queen Alexandra Hospital in Portsmouth. In 2018, Dr. Hill was awarded a Clinical Research Training Fellowship from Cancer Research UK, where he undertook his PhD in the laboratory of Professor Tim Elliott at the Centre for Cancer Immunology, investigating CD8+ lymphocyte infiltrates in human oesophageal cancer. He returned to clinical training in 2022, appointed as an NIHR clinical lecturer in Medical Oncology. Dr. Hill is an active member of the Innovation Translation Research Group and co-led projects that concentrate on the immune microenvironment in oesophageal adenocarcinoma and gastrointestinal stromal tumours, focusing on CD8+ T lymphocytes. He is involved in early phase clinical research and supports several studies as a co-investigator, including novel immunotherapy agents and personalised cancer vaccines.