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» Jessie Axsom, BS, BSN

Jessie Axsom, BS, BSN

Jessie Axsom

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axsomje@nursing.upenn.edu

Cohort Year

2018

Faculty Advisor

Dr. Zoltan Arany, Dr. Joseph Libonati, Dr. Heath Schmidt, and Dr. Lea Ann Matura 

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.

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