Dr Ben Kong is a Medical Oncologist at Prince of Wales Hospital and Senior Research Fellow with the SPHERE Cancer Clinical Academic Group at the University of New South Wales. Ben trained in General Medicine within the Nepean/Concord network and Medical Oncology at Westmead Hospital, prior to completing a PhD in Cancer Immunology at the University of Sydney evaluating strategies to combine immune checkpoint inhibitors with cellular therapies. Ben gained experience in clinical trials development, including investigator initiated tumour agnostic and biomarker driven trials, as a Research Fellow at the NHMRC Clinical Trials Centre. He continues to apply his training to translational research interests in thoracic, head and neck cancers and brain metastases.