She is also Director of Biosecurity at the University of Pennsylvania’s famed equine and large animal hospital, the New Bolton Center. Originally coming from the United Kingdom, Dr. Aceto completed her bachelor’s degree in pharmacology from the University of Dundee, an hour and a half north of Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1977. She then immigrated to the United State and completed a doctoral degree in pharmacology in 1993 before earning her Veterinariae Medicinae Doctoris from the University of Pennsylvania in 1997. She soon joined the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania and has since focused her research on antimicrobial drug treatment, biosecurity, zoonotic diseases, and salmonella, especially as they affect large animals like horses and cattle.