Sherry A. Marts, Ph.D.
Vice President, Scientific Affairs

Sherry Marts directs scientific programs at the Society, including the Society’s conference series on sex-based biology, the “Some Things Only a Woman Can Do” public education campaign on clinical trials, conferences on Sex and Gene Expression (SAGE), and the Isis Fund for Women’s Health Research. She serves as scientific spokesperson for the Society.

Prior to joining the Society as scientific director in 1998, Marts was a senior analyst at the consulting firm of Abt Associates, where she served as scientific research administrator for the HIV Network for Prevention Trials, under a contract with the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. From 1991-1996, she was director of research grants at the American Health Assistance Foundation. From 1988-1991, she worked in the office of the vice president for research and development at the American Red Cross biomedical research laboratories in Rockville, Md., where she managed the Red Cross intramural research grants program and administered the Red Cross research ethics review and training programs. She later returned to the Red Cross as a consultant in research ethics and regulatory affairs.

Marts received a bachelor’s of science in applied biology from The Hatfield Polytechnic (now Hertfordshire University, UK) in 1981 and her doctorate in cell and molecular biology from Duke University in 1986. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Lineberger Cancer Research Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1988.