Rotem is a PhD candidate in the Life Sciences Department at Bar-Ilan University, conducting her doctoral research in the laboratory of Prof. Ayal Hendel. Her work focuses on advanced T-cell immunotherapy, with an emphasis on the discovery, characterization, and functional evaluation of T-cell receptors. She specializes in editing primary T cells and leads the development of a modular platform for engineered T-cell receptor evaluation, with the aim of translating this into clinically relevant applications.