Dr. Claire Edwards

Biography

Professor Claire Edwards (née Shipman) obtained her class honours degree and Ph.D. from the University of Sheffield. She began her career focusing on cancer-induced bone disease and completed postdoctoral studies at the University of Sheffield and the University of Oxford. In 2004, Professor Edwards moved to the United States to take assistant professor positions at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio and subsequently at Vanderbilt University. She is a recipient of multiple awards and fellowships, including the Iain T. Boyle Award from the European Calcified Tissue Society. In 2010, Professor Edwards relocated her lab to the University of Oxford as a University Lecturer in Bone Oncology, with a joint appointment in the Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences (NDS) and the Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology, and Musculoskeletal Sciences (NDORMS), alongside her fellowship at St. Edmund Hall. Her research interests focus on the pathogenesis of cancer-induced bone disease and the contributions of the host bone marrow microenvironment, as well as the roles of obesity, adipocytes, and adipokines.

Research Interests