She received the 2020 Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences Robert Bing Prize in Neuroscience and the 2023 Pezcoller-Marina Larcher Fogazzaro-EACR Women in Cancer Research Award.

Joyce opened her independent research lab in 2005 at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center as an Assistant Member.

[citation needed] Joyce was made an Assistant Professor at the Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences in 2005.

Joyce's research considers the tumour microenvironment and the influence of non-cancerous immune and stromal cells.

[2] She looked at how tumor-associated macrophages are impacted by radiotherapy, showing this it could drive therapy resistance and trigger glioma growth.