Counting on counting: a new vision for accelerating progress in regenerative medicine and drug development


In this Podcast, we interview Dr James L Sherley, Founder and Director of Asymmetrex, LLC (MA, USA), on his career to date. Sherley also discusses how to advance tissue stem cell technologies to applications in cell therapies.

An outstanding issue that the cell therapy field has yet to
resolve is how to ensure there are sufficient quantities of appropriate donor
stem cells for effective treatment of patients in the clinic. In this podcast
interview, Dr James L Sherley, Founder and Director of Asymmetrex, LLC (MA,
USA), discusses his career to date and how to advance tissue stem cell
technologies to applications in cell therapies.

Dr James L Sherley
James L Sherley, MD, PhD, is an award winning and highly respected scientist. Dr Sherley founded Asymmetrex
when he was a senior scientist at the Boston Biomedical Research
Institute, in June, 2009. Dr Sherley is a graduate from Harvard College
in 1980 with a BA degree in biology. He completed a joint MD and PhD
program from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 1988. After
post-doctoral studies at Princeton University, he joined the Fox Chase
Cancer Center in Philadelphia as a principal investigator in 1991. In
1998, he moved to the faculty at the Department of Biological
Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he pursued
the new discipline of adult stem cell biological engineering. Dr Sherley
has won numerous awards and accolades, including the 1993 Pew Scholars in Biomedical Research Award, the 2003 Ellison Medical Foundation Senior
Scholar
Award in Aging Research, and the 2006 NIH Director’s Pioneer Award.
Dr Sherley has spent 20 years in regenerative biology and stem cell
medicine fields. He has focused on elucidating mechanisms responsible
for the specialized renewal properties of adult stem cells and using
this knowledge to address major research problems limiting the
development of adult stem cells for biomedicine. Read or download Dr
Sherley’s entire curriculum vitae
here.

Further reading

This post is supported by Asymmetrex, LLC.