Sherman Hom

Sherman Hom, Ph.D. is the Director of Regulatory Affairs for Medicinal Genomics Corp. Prior to joining MGC, Dr. Hom was a Research Scientist 1 in New Jersey’s Division of Public Health and Environmental Laboratories (PHEL), where, as a Project Manager, he coordinated all PHEL’s pre-analytical activities supporting its SARS-CoV-2 testing. Prior to that, he was the Project Manager for creating the state’s Cannabis Testing Lab and subsequently for validating Microbial Testing of Cannabis products. He has also been a professor of microbiology, a laboratory manager, a senior research scientist, a writer, and an inventor. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow in Molecular Genetics at The Johns Hopkins University, holds a Ph.D. in Microbiology from the University of California at Davis, and a B.A. in Biology from UC San Diego.