Sheryl Sharma obtained her B.Sc and M.Sc in chemistry from University of Delhi and Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, India. She worked as an executive organic chemist at the R&D facility of Panacea Biotec before switching to working as a patent attorney at Lakshmikumaran and Sridharan, New Delhi, India. She is currently a graduate student in Dr. James Checco’s lab at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln where her research focuses on developing bioactive peptides as labeling probes for the discovery of novel protein-protein interactions.