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The immunosuppressive metabolic tumour microenvironment in solid tumours limits the antitumour activity of cell-based immunotherapy. In this Perspective, McPhedran et al. propose a framework to overcome this issue by engineering metabolic networks in T cells to enhance chimeric antigen receptor T cell efficiency