Prof Joanne Edwards

Joanne Edwards is Professor of Translational Cancer Pathology and Principal Investigator in the School of Cancer Pathology, University of Glasgow, UK.  She is also Director of Education for the School of Cancer, the Colorectal Cancer Theme Lead for the Cancer Research UK Scotland Centre, Director of the Glasgow Tissue Research Facility and Director of the Integrated Technologies for Improved Polyp Surveillance. 

Receiving her PhD at the University of St Andrews, Scotland before moving to Glasgow in 1997, she has more than 20 years experience working in cancer biomarker research and therapeutics, with a focus on colorectal and breast cancer.  She has published 200+ scientific papers with more than 15,000 citations, with an established international network of collaborators.  Her work aims to better understand the determinants of short and long-term outcomes in patients with colorectal and breast cancer. In particular, the relationship between the local and systemic inflammatory responses, tumour microenvironment and cell signalling with a view to taking such knowledge into routine clinical management. 

She has developed unique patient tissue cohorts with extensive linked clinical data across a breadth of solid tumours from which she has gained an international reputation for expertise in developing biomarkers for personalized patient care. Notably, despite being a non-clinical researcher, her work has resulted in being elected as Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists.   She leads a multidisciplinary team that consists of scientists and surgeons, and has supervised over 20 PhD students. As a mentor she strives to supporting the next generation of cancer researchers and inspire them through their educational careers as PhD students and post-doctoral scientists.  

She has previously been a member of the Breast Cancer Now Tissue Bank Advisory Board and BACR executive board and Chaired the Biochemical Society Clinical and Translational Research Theme Panel.

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