Sherri is a professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) and is the current President of the American Society for Photobiology (ASP). Her research areas include synthetic and natural products chemistry, medicinal inorganic chemistry, photophysics and photochemistry, and photomedicine. She has a passion for translational research and entrepreneurship. Her research group developed and licensed a ruthenium coordination complex that has advanced to clinical trials for treating bladder cancer patients with photodynamic therapy. Sherri also co-founded a company that has commercialized a natural product extract as a photoantimicrobial for improving oral health.