Ashley Laughney

Ashley Laughney is an Associate Professor of Systems and Computational Biomedicine at Weill Cornell Medical College since 2025, integrating computational and systems biology approaches to study cancer progression. Her work focuses on chromosomal instability, metastasis, and tumor microenvironment dynamics.

• Ph.D., Dartmouth College (2012)
• B.S., University of Vermont (2007)

Her research explores:

• Chromosomal Instability and Its Role in Cancer Evolution
• Metastasis and Organotropism in Solid Tumors
• Interdisciplinary Modeling of Tumor Ecosystems
• Biomedical Imaging Techniques for Surgical Margin Assessment
• Metabolic Reprogramming in Aging-Associated Carcinogenesis

Recent publications highlight her work on micronuclear collapse mechanisms (2024), lineage-specific oncogenic responses (2024), and metabolic drivers of metastasis (2023). Grants include funding from the National Cancer Institute for STING-targeting therapies (2025-2030) and systems-level approaches to prostate cancer metastasis (2023-2028).