Professor Sherman received his undergraduate degree in chemistry at UC Santa Cruz and Ph.D. in synthetic organic chemistry at Columbia University with Gilbert Stork. After four years at Biogen, he moved to the John Innes Institute as a research scientist with Sir Prof. David A. Hopwood. Following 13 years at the University of Minnesota, Prof. Sherman moved to the University of Michigan and is now the Hans W. Vahlteich Professor of Medicinal Chemistry, Professor of Chemistry, and Professor of Microbiology & Immunology. Sherman’s laboratory is in the U-M Life Sciences Institute where his research focuses on the discovery and analysis of bioactive natural products, their metabolic pathways, and diverse biosynthetic enzymes. The functional, structural, and computational analysis of new biocatalysts for late-stage C-H functionalization, polyketide assembly, and pericyclic reactions is a particular focus of the group. Prof. Sherman is faculty lead for the U-M Natural Products Biosciences Initiative and co-founder of the Natural Products Discovery Core.