JEDr Joy Edwards-Hicks — no licensed photograph is available, so the academic plate is shown instead.

Academic

Dr Joy Edwards-Hicks

researcher at the University of Edinburgh who studies how changes in blood metabolites affect the immune system

Press citations

1

Topic

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Dementia

Last quoted

Aug 2026

Dr Joy Edwards-Hicks: key facts

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Academic
Role
researcher at the University of Edinburgh who studies how changes in blood metabolites affect the immune system
Quoted on
Dementia
Tracked press citations
1
Most recently quoted
27 Aug 2026

“It's going to be a real gamechanger for our work. If we have early predictors of disease, we can tell someone in their 40s that their biomarkers are not looking good for their age and advise on changes they could make.”

Where Dr Joy Edwards-Hicks has been quoted

  1. Pinprick blood test could detect disease 10 years before symptoms appear, study findstheguardian.com · 27 Aug 2026

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