Dr. Shawn M. Davidson is an assistant professor of medicine at Northwestern University specializing in cell metabolism and imaging mass spectrometry. He earned his BS in biology in 2010 from Providence College and his PhD in biology in 2017 from MIT, where he developed methods to study metabolism in living systems. He completed postdoctoral research at Brigham and Women's Hospital and the Broad Institute, focusing on tumor and immune cell metabolism using imaging mass spectrometry. Dr. Davidson's research program, initiated at Princeton University and continued at Northwestern University, integrates metabolism, biotechnology and genetics, focusing on analyzing imaging tracers, metabolic dysregulation in disease states and development of therapeutic strategies for metabolic targets. He has received numerous honors, including the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, and has published extensively on metabolic dependencies in cancer and neurological diseases. His work aims to enhance our understanding of metabolism in health and disease.