Professor Edwards is a Consultant Rheumatologist and Co-Director of the NIHR Southampton Clinical Research Facility within the University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, having previously worked as a consultant at Tan Tock Seng Hospital in Singapore. Professor Edwards trained with Professor Maini at the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology during the early years of anti-TNF trials and with Professor Graham Hughes at the St Thomas’ Hospital Lupus Clinic in London. He has been an Investigator on a number of trials of therapies for inflammatory rheumatic diseases. As Co-Director of the NIHR Southampton Clinical Research Facility he is engaged with the running of a large translational research facility with phase I experience including COVID vaccines and anti-virals. Professor Edwards is Clinical Director of the Southampton Musculoskeletal Research Unit, a recognised EULAR centre of excellence and is Chair of the EULAR Education Committee. Professor Edwards is an investigator for a number of stratified medicine trials to better understand the targeting of therapies for individuals.