Sherman Hom

Director of Regulatory Affairs at Medicinal Genomics

Sherman Hom, PhD, is the director of regulatory affairs for Medicinal Genomics Corporation. Prior to joining MGC, Dr. Hom was a research scientist in New Jersey’s Department of Health 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 starting the state’s cannabis testing lab and subsequently for validating microbial testing methods 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 PhD in Microbiology from the University of California at Davis, and a BA in Biology from UC San Diego.