- Assistant Professor, Department of Systems Pharmacology and Translational Therapeutics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
Dr. Caroline Bartman is an Assistant Professor of Systems Pharmacology and Translational Therapeutics at the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania. She received her PhD from the University of Pennsylvania, where her doctoral training in immunology and gene regulation set the foundation for her later work on metabolism, and completed postdoctoral training at Princeton University in the laboratory of Joshua Rabinowitz, focusing on cancer metabolism and quantitative isotope-tracing approaches.
Dr. Bartman’s laboratory applies state-of-the-art metabolomics, isotope tracing, and quantitative modeling to dissect how cellular and systemic metabolism shape immune cell function in tissue. Her work has been recognized by Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation support and an NCI K99/R00 career transition award, and her current research is increasingly directed at how metabolic rewiring drives chronic inflammation and autoimmunity in tissue microenvironments.
Dr. Bartman serves as Associate Director of Translational Research within the Miner laboratory ecosystem and contributes to the Penn Colton Center’s growing portfolio in immunometabolism. She collaborates extensively across Systems Pharmacology, the Institute for Immunology and Immune Health, and the Abramson Cancer Center to apply metabolic frameworks to autoimmune disease mechanisms and to identify metabolism-targeted therapeutic opportunities.