Hesperos Inc.
Ashley Braxton is a Scientific Researcher at Hesperos Inc., having previously worked as a Chemist at Eurofins and as a Quality Control Chemist at Edgewell Personal Care. Prior experience includes serving as an Orise researcher at the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education and fulfilling roles as a Course Assistant and Teaching Assistant at Pennsylvania State University, where responsibilities involved preparing and assisting in class labs, writing technical manuals, troubleshooting and maintaining analytical instruments, and grading. Early experience includes working as a crew member at Dunkin Donuts. Ashley Braxton holds a Bachelor’s degree in Forensic Chemistry from Penn State University, obtained in 2018.
Hesperos Inc.
Hesperos, Inc. is a leader in efforts to characterize an individual's biology with Human-on-a-Chip microfluidic systems. Founders Michael L. Shuler and James J. Hickman have been at the forefront of every major scientific discovery in this realm, from individual organ-on-a-chip constructs to fully functional, interconnected multi-organsystems. With a mission to revolutionize toxicology testing as well as efficacy evaluation for drug discovery, the company has created pumpless platforms with serum-free cellular mediums that allow multi-organ system communication and integrated computational PKPD modeling of live physiological responses utilizing functional readouts from neurons, cardiac, muscle, barrier tissues and neuromuscular junctions as well as responses from liver, pancreas and barrier tissues.