Founder CEO/CSO, GenoPalate | Molecular Geneticist, Ph.D.
Dr. Yi Sherry Zhang is an obesity genomics researcher and a health tech entrepreneur with 17 years of experience helping individuals achieve optimal health and wellness with science. A specialist in digital health innovations, Sherry uses her experience to help people gain access to health equity. Sherry is a well-published author in the field of metabolic health and genomics and has been featured in several media publications.
Sherry is the founder of GenoPalate, a leading direct-to-consumer digital health tech provider of personalized nutrition. With her science team analyzing multiple millions of variables per person of GenoPalate’s large and growing client database, Sherry is addressing dietary chronic illness with preventative care of people at the personal level.
Sherry has received recognitions/awards including: 40 Under 40, Women of Influence, Who’s Who, and the Spirit of Marquette University Award. Sherry often speaks at industry think tank meetings including HLTH, Food as Medicine Summit, Personalized Nutrition Innovation and ANA’s Personalized Nutrition Summit.
Sherry plays piano, enjoys attending her son’s basketball games and is always looking for ways of eating delicious foods for healthy aging.