Dr Jessica Da Gama Duarte is a Victorian Cancer Agency Mid-Career Research Fellow (2024-2027) and expert in B cell tumour immunology and Tertiary Lymphoid Structures. During her Doctoral studies at the University of Cape Town, South Africa she developed a cancer-specific custom protein array platform and its accompanying software. She was initially recruited to the ONJCRI, Australia in 2015 as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow where she became an expert in multispectral immunohistochemistry, developing several in-house panels for the characterisation of immune infiltrates in solid tumours. She relocated to Monash University in 2025 as a Laboratory Head and Senior Research Fellow where she leads a research team. Her research is focused on early detection of cancer onset and recurrence, prediction of immunotherapy benefit and/or toxicity, and understanding the role of B cells, antibody production, and Tertiary Lymphoid Structures in anti-tumour immunity.