Irina Redchenko Gomes serves as a researcher at the Edward Jenner Institute for Vaccine Research (EJIVR). Her research interests lie in the field of tumour immunology and immunotherapy. Her professional career to date has been dedicated to preclinical and clinical development of cancer vaccines in both academia and industry. She joined the Jenner Institute to initiate a Cancer Vaccine Programme in 2012. Cancer vaccines face the challenge of breaking immunological tolerance to self-antigens that often are the only targets available for vaccine-targeted immune response.