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Professor Dmitry Pshezhetskiy: no photograph is held, so the University of East Anglia monogram is shown instead.
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Professor Dmitry Pshezhetskiy

Professorial Research Fellow, Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia

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Quoted in the press on 2 topics since 5 Sept 2026

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OfficeUniversity of East Anglia, NorwichThe organisation’s office, not a personal address.

02  Quoted on · 1 of 29 topics

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Professor Dmitry Pshezhetskiy: key facts

Kind of voice
Academic
Role
Professorial Research Fellow, Norwich Medical School
Organisation
University of East Anglia
Quoted on
Long Covid
Press coverage
Also cited
Most recently quoted
3 Oct 2026
First quoted
5 Sept 2026

03  Profile

Who Professor Dmitry Pshezhetskiy is

Professor Dmitry Pshezhetskiy is a Professorial Research Fellow at the University of East Anglia's Norwich Medical School. His research covers cancer molecular and cell biology, epigenetic diagnostic markers and nanoparticle-based cancer therapies.

He has an MSc from Lomonosov Moscow State University. He joined Imperial College London in 2006 as a Research Fellow and head of its Tumour Microenvironment and Chemotherapy group. He has held an Honorary Senior Lectureship at Norwich Medical School since April 2012.

He was named as lead researcher on UEA and Oxford BioDynamics work on a blood test for ME/CFS, reported as 96% accurate. He has also been quoted on a combined PSA and epigenetic blood test for prostate cancer. In the press he has argued that ME/CFS patients have often gone undiagnosed or misdiagnosed for years because no definitive test exists.

He has said a diagnosis could lead to earlier support and better management.

Notable achievements

  1. 01

    Lead researcher on the UEA and Oxford BioDynamics programme that applied EpiSwitch 3D genomic profiling to ME/CFS, producing a blood-based diagnostic with 96% accuracy, published in the Journal of Translational Medicine in 2025. Source ↗

  2. 02

    Quoted by UEA as lead researcher on the ME/CFS blood test. Source ↗

  3. 03

    UEA team piloted the Prostate Screening EpiSwitch (PSE) blood test, which combines PSA with an epigenetic test and was reported as 94% accurate, in 147 patients. Source ↗

  4. 04

    Co-developer of a patented nanoparticle system for cancer treatment (WO/2018/115835). Source ↗

  5. 05

    Won the AstraZeneca Start-up Challenge and the 2025 Best Paper of the Year Award from the journal Cancers, according to his UEA research portal profile. Source ↗

  6. 06

    Member of the editorial board of several journals, including the American Journal of Cancer Research, Cancers and Frontiers in Oncology. Source ↗

04  The signal · where Professor Dmitry Pshezhetskiy sits on long covid

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One of the voices most often quoted in the press on long covid.

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  1. Dr Charles Shepherd portraitDr Charles ShepherdClinicianTrustee and Honorary Medical Adviser, The ME AssociationLeading
  2. Professor Dmitry PshezhetskiyAcademicProfessorial Research Fellow, Norwich Medical School, University of East AngliaLeading
  3. Dr. Ewan Hunter portraitDr. Ewan HunterBusiness leaderChief Data Officer, Oxford BioDynamics PlcLeading
  4. Dr Margaret O'Hara portraitDr Margaret O'HaraSector leaderFounding Trustee and Research Policy Lead, Long Covid SupportLeading
  5. Prof Danny AltmannAcademicDepartment of Immunology and Inflammation at ImperialLeading
  6. Professor Habib Naqvi portraitProfessor Habib NaqviSector leaderChief Executive, NHS Race and Health ObservatoryLeading

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05  On the record · press

What Professor Dmitry Pshezhetskiy has said

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Where Professor Dmitry Pshezhetskiy has been quoted

  1. Long COVID, ME/CFS and PTSD share body-wide networks, not specific genesburgasmedia.com · 3 Oct 2026
  2. Scientists may have found a “unifying theory” of chronic fatiguesciencedaily.com · 1 Oct 2026
  3. The cause of your chronic and severe fatigue: Scientists studied the make-up of people with the illness... and now think they've found the genetic traits to blame | Daily Mail Onlinedailymail.com · 28 Sept 2026
  4. Five very different illnesses share a surprising biological connectionearth.com · 26 Sept 2026
  5. Five Very Different Diseases May Share a Hidden Biological Linkscitechdaily.com · 20 Sept 2026
  6. Common Genomic Networks Found Across Long COVID, ME/CFS, and PTSDtechnologynetworks.com · 8 Sept 2026
  7. Common Genomic Networks Found Across Long COVID, ME/CFS, and PTSDtechnologynetworks.com · 8 Sept 2026
  8. A Shared Biology Underlies 5 Major Fatigue-Causing Illnesses, Scientists Suggestsciencealert.com · 7 Sept 2026
  9. Study links shared process to chronic exhaustion in 5 separate illnessesdtnext.in · 5 Sept 2026
  10. Breakthrough blood test finally confirms Chronic Fatigue Syndromesciencedaily.com

How we found the articles that name Professor Dmitry Pshezhetskiy: we searched news for these terms.

  • long covid
  • post-covid syndrome
  • long-haul covid
  • ME/CFS
  • chronic fatigue syndrome
  • post-viral
  • long covid clinic

Also searched with “long covid” in each of 8 national papers, and in the Guardian by editor tag. Every term for Long Covid

Verbatim

“Suddenly the diseases turned out to be deeply connected. That's not something you can see just by reading the genetic sequence.”
Professor, University of East Anglia medical school · Long Covid · burgasmedia.com · 3 Oct 2026 · Read the article
“What we discovered is something approaching a biological unifying theory of fatigue.”
Professor, Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia · Long Covid · sciencedaily.com · 1 Oct 2026 · Read the article
“The thing that links all these conditions is that patients frequently report remarkably similar symptoms – overwhelming fatigue, brain fog, poor concentration, disturbed sleep and a dramatic reduction in everyday functioning.”
Professor, research lead at the University of East Anglia, specialises in treating ME/CFS · dailymail.com · 28 Sept 2026 · Read the article
“What we discovered is something approaching a biological unifying theory of fatigue”
researcher at the University of East Anglia's Norwich Medical School · Long Covid · earth.com · 26 Sept 2026 · Read the article
“Until now, illnesses including long Covid, PTSD, ME/CFS, multiple sclerosis and rheumatoid arthritis were viewed as seemingly unrelated and triggered by completely different events... But one thing that links them all is that patients frequently report remarkably similar symptoms – overwhelming fatigue, brain fog, poor concentration, disturbed sleep, autonomic dysfunction and a dramatic reduction in everyday functioning.”
Lead researcher, Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia · Long Covid · scitechdaily.com · 20 Sept 2026 · Read the article
“Until now, illnesses including long Covid, PTSD, ME/CFS, multiple sclerosis and rheumatoid arthritis were viewed as seemingly unrelated and triggered by completely different events.”
Professor at UEA's Norwich Medical School · Long Covid · technologynetworks.com · 8 Sept 2026 · Read the article
“What we discovered is something approaching a biological unifying theory of fatigue.”
Professor, lead researcher, UEA Norwich Medical School · Long Covid · technologynetworks.com · 8 Sept 2026 · Read the article
“But one thing that links them all is that patients frequently report remarkably similar symptoms – overwhelming fatigue, brain fog, poor concentration, disturbed sleep, autonomic dysfunction and a dramatic reduction in everyday functioning. We wanted to find out why this is.”
clinician-scientist at UEA · Long Covid · sciencealert.com · 7 Sept 2026 · Read the article
“We now think the answer may lie in shared regulatory networks embedded within the body's immune and metabolic systems. A COVID-19 infection may trigger prolonged immune activation. Traumatic stress may disrupt stress-hormone pathways and inflammatory responses. But both disturbances appear capable of converging on common biological circuits controlling energy production, immune regulation and cellular resilience.”
professor at the University of East Anglia's Norwich Medical School · Long Covid · dtnext.in · 5 Sept 2026 · Read the article
“ME/CFS is a serious and often disabling illness characterized by extreme fatigue that is not relieved by rest. With no definitive tests, many patients have gone undiagnosed or misdiagnosed for years. We wanted to see if we could develop a blood test to diagnose the condition -- and we did!”
Lead researcher at UEA's Norwich Medical School · Long Covid · sciencedaily.com · Read the article

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06  Sources

References for this biography

  1. Dmitry Pshezhetskiy - University of East Anglia (research portal). Current title (Professorial Research Fellow, Norwich Medical School), education, Imperial College career, honorary lectureship since 2012, awards and editorial board roles.
  2. The Team - UEA. Research interests: epigenetic diagnostic markers in prostate, colorectal and ovarian cancer, and nanoparticle-based therapies. Also his MSc in Chemistry and PhD in Biology.
  3. Prof. Dmitry Pshezhetskiy - Cancer Research Norwich. Research focus on cancer molecular and cell biology, and the patented nanoparticle system.
  4. Revolutionary blood test for ME / Chronic Fatigue unveiled - UEA. Lead researcher on the ME/CFS blood test, with 96% accuracy.
  5. 'Breakthrough' as scientists develop world's first blood test to diagnose chronic fatigue syndrome - LBC. Press quotes on ME/CFS diagnosis. Also that other experts called for more studies to confirm the finding.
  6. ME diagnosis can be confirmed with simple blood test - Practice Nurse. Quotes on earlier support, better management and targeted treatments for ME/CFS.
  7. Invest in ME Research - BRMEC15 Agenda 2026. Led the clinical side of the Oxford BioDynamics collaboration on EpiSwitch in ME/CFS. Expertise in molecular oncology, epigenetics and translational biomarkers.
  8. The new prostate cancer blood test with 94 per cent accuracy - ScienceDaily. Prostate cancer PSE test, 147-patient pilot, and his quoted comments.
  9. New blood test for prostate cancer shows 94% accuracy - Front Line Genomics. The study was a collaboration between Imperial College London, UEA and Oxford BioDynamics, published in Cancers.

07  Contact & links

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research-portal.uea.ac.uk/en/persons/dmitry-pshezhetskiy
Staff page
cancerresearchnorwich.org.uk/researcher/dmitry-pshezhetskiy

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