Merry R. Sherman

Merry R. Sherman, CEO and President, received a B.A. in Chemistry from Wellesley College (1961), where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and an M.A. in Biochemistry (1963) and Ph.D. in Biophysics (1966) from the University of California at Berkeley. Following post-doctoral training in Polymer Research and Biochemistry at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel and at the U.S. National Institutes of Health, she directed research in Endocrine Biochemistry at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (1970-1986). She later served as a Professor of Biochemistry at Rutgers University in New Jersey (1986-1993) before entering the pharmaceutical industry. Her publications are in the fields of physical biochemistry, molecular endocrinology, cancer research and neuroscience. Her research since 1993 has been in collaboration with Drs. Saifer and Williams. Dr. Sherman is a co-inventor on eight U.S. patents and >200 foreign patents and applications.