James Sherley is a scientist on the forefront of adult stem-cell research. He earned his B.A. from Harvard University and his M.D./Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular and Cellular Biology (BCMB Program) from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He was a principal investigator in the Division of Medical Science at the Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Sherley is currently a principal investigator at the Division of Bioengineering and Environmental Health at MIT. His present research is in integrated studies in somatic stem cell kinetics. Sherley was the honored as a Pew Scholar in Biomedical Science in 1993, and in 2001 became a Pew Science and Society Institute Fellow.