June 8, 2017
Sherri McFarland, Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, is a medicinal chemist and entrepreneur. She recently relocated from Acadia University in Canada to UNCG, where she and senior scientist Dr. Colin Cameron have assembled a multidisciplinary team of undergraduates and graduates who work to tackle fundamental problems in photophysics and photomedicine. The McFarland Group combines light and molecules to act as therapeutic and diagnostic agents for anticancer and antimicrobial photodynamic therapy. They are internationally recognized for their translational research, having been the first to advance a ruthenium-based photodynamic therapeutic to human clinical trials (in partnership with Theralase Technologies, Inc.). Dr. McFarland is also the founder of a biotech company Photodynamic Inc., which has advanced its light-activated antimicrobial natural product and device to a human clinical study for treating oral biofilms (plaque).
In her spare time, Sherri enjoying hanging with her dogs, cats, horses, and goats.
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UNC Greensboro
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