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Joy Edwards-Hicks studied Biomedicine at the University of East Anglia, obtaining her BSc Hons degree in 2013. She moved to Edinburgh to pursue a PhD under Andrew Finch at the Institute of Genetics Cancer, where she developed a passion for metabolic research. In 2017, she conducted postdoctoral studies with Professor Erika Pearce at the Max Planck Institute of Immunology and Epigenetics in Germany, focusing on how metabolism regulates T cell signaling and function. In 2021, she joined the University of Cambridge to work with Christoph Hess on translational immunometabolism. In 2023, she was awarded a BBSRC Discovery Fellowship to investigate the role of lipid metabolism in T cell aging. In 2024, she was awarded the ESAT fellowship to lead a group at the Institute of Regeneration and Repair.
Centre Inflammation Research • Edinburgh, UK
Investigating age-related metabolic changes and their impact on lymphocyte signaling function.
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