Ashley Woolfork

Ashley is a first year Institutional Research and Academic Career Development Awards (IRACDA) postdoctoral fellow at the University of Pennsylvania in the department of Systems Pharmacology and Translational Therapeutics. She received her bachelor’s in chemistry from Rutgers University-New Brunswick in 2016 and her Ph.D. in analytical chemistry from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2021. Her graduate research used high performance affinity chromatography to examine the interaction between serum transport proteins and various anti-diabetic drugs and developed a fluorometric sandwich assay for the detection of COVID-19 antibodies. Her current research uses mass spectrometry imaging to understand systems level changes in metabolism as it relates to sleep and circadian rhythms. She also has a passion for teaching where she believes in empowering students in STEM by helping them develop their academic abilities in their general chemistry and math courses.