Shawn Davidson

Dr. Davidson is an Assistant Professor at Northwestern University, specializing in cell metabolism and method development to study disease metabolism in physiological settings. I received my bachelor’s degree from Providence College in 2010 and my Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2017, both in Biology. As a graduate student, I received the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship to develop methods for studying tumor metabolism in vivo. My postdoctoral research at the Broad Institute and Brigham and Women’s Hospital focused on bioengineering approaches to study the metabolism of tumor and immune cells. As a Lewis-Sigler Institute Fellow at Princeton University, our lab pioneered “Iso-Imaging” (stable-isotope tracing coupled with imaging mass spectrometry) for single-cell, spatially resolved metabolic measurements. We continue to apply Iso-Imaging in my lab at Northwestern University. Our work progresses in developing imaging mass for stable-isotope tracers and metabolism; investigating metabolic dysregulation in disease states with pathological assessment and mathematical modeling; developing therapeutic strategies for metabolic targets; researching new in vivo metabolic therapeutic delivery methods; and creating animal models that mimic genetic modifiers in human diseases.