Sherry M. Tsai
Assistant Faculty
Bio-organic Chemistry

626/ 817-0883
reu@oak-crest.org

B.S., Yale University , 2000, Chemistry
Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, 2007, Bioorganic Chemistry

Principal Research Interests

  • Sustained release drug delivery systems in the treatment of HIV/AIDS, Parkinson’s disease, inflammation, graft rejection

  • Development of K-12 science education outreach programs

Representative Publications
  1. “Small molecules targeting histone H4 as potential therapeutics for chronic myelogenous leukemia.”  C. James Chou, Michelle E. Farkas, Sherry M. Tsai, David A. Alvarez, Peter B. Dervan, and Joel M. Gottesfeld, Mol. Cancer Ther., 7, 769-778 (2008).
  2. “α-Diaminobutyric acid-linked hairpin polyamides.”  Michelle E. Farkas, Sherry M. Tsai, and Peter B. Dervan, Bioorg. Med. Chem., 15, 6927-6936 (2007).
  3. “Unanticipated differences between α- and γ-diaminobutyric acid-linked hairpin polyamide-alkylator conjugates.”  Sherry M. Tsai, Michelle E. Farkas, C. James Chou, Joel M. Gottesfeld, and Peter B. Dervan, Nucleic Acids Res., 35, 307-316 (2007).
  4. “A chondroitin sulfate small molecule that stimulates neuronal growth.”  Sarah E. Tully, Ross Mabon, Cristal I. Gama, Sherry M. Tsai, Xuewei Liu, and Linda C. Hsieh-Wilson, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 126, 7736-7737 (2004). Featured in Chem. Eng. News, 82, 9 (2004).