Jessie Axsom, BS, BSN
Bio
Jessie is a current Penn Nursing PhD student in the Cardiovascular Institute at the Smilow Translational Research Center in the School of Medicine and a Hillman Scholar in Nursing Innovation. She earned a BS in Exercise Science from James Madison University (’16) before completing her BSN at Penn (’19). She is interested in how epigenetics might contribute to cardiometabolic adaptations to exercise and using basic science approaches to explore exercise metabolism.