Jeremy M. Berg
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Biographical Sketch
Dr. Jeremy M. Berg became director of the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) in November 2003. He oversees a $1.9 billion budget that funds basic research in the areas of cell biology, biophysics, genetics, developmental biology, pharmacology, physiology, biological chemistry, bioinformatics, and computational biology. The Institute supports more than 4,500 research grants—about 10 percent of the grants funded by NIH as a whole—as well as a substantial amount of research training and programs designed to increase the number of minority biomedical scientists.
Prior to his appointment as NIGMS director, Dr. Berg directed the Institute for Basic Biomedical Sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, MD, where he also served as professor and director of the Department of Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry. In addition, he directed the Markey Center for Macromolecular Structure and Function and co-directed the W.M. Keck Center for the Rational Design of Biologically Active Molecules at the university.
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Curriculum Vitae and Selected Scientific Publications
Messages to the Scientific Community
Fiscal Year 2008 Financial Management Plan (February 4, 2008)
NIGMS Issues Strategic Plan for 2008-2012 (January 25, 2008)
NIH FY 2007 Fiscal Policy for Noncompeting Grant Awards (March 1, 2007)
NIH FY 2007 Fiscal Policy for Grant Awards (December 19, 2006)
NIH Financial Policy for Fiscal Year 2006 Grant Awards (January 20, 2006)
NIH Budget Status; Electronic Grant Submission (December 15, 2005)
NIGMS FY 2005 Budget and Funding Policies (December 21, 2004)
Success Rates, Percentile Ranks, and Grant Budgets (March 26, 2004)
Message to Grantees from the New NIGMS Director (March 9, 2004)
NIGMS Feedback Loop: A Catalyst for Interaction with the Scientific Community
The NIGMS Feedback Loop is an e-newsletter alerting researchers to NIGMS funding opportunities, trends, and plans. Each issue contains a message from the NIGMS Director. Subscribe to the e-mail version of this newsletter.
March 5, 2008
November 19, 2007
• Funding Trends
June 29, 2007
February 20, 2007
November 15, 2006
• Funding Trends
June 16, 2006
February 22, 2006
October 31, 2005
• Funding Trends
June 27, 2005
March 29, 2005
Congressional Statements
March 5, 2008
March 6, 2007
April 6, 2006
March 9, 2005
April 1 and 22, 2004
News Releases
NIH Nominates Scientific Management Review Board Members
NIH news release (September 9, 2008)
Three NIH Scientists Named 2007 AAAS Fellows
NIH news release (October 25, 2007)
Jeremy M. Berg, Ph.D., Named New Director of NIH's National Institute of General Medical Sciences
NIGMS news release (August 27, 2003)
Statement
NIGMS Grantees Win Nobel Prize for Gene Targeting
Statement from Jeremy M. Berg, Ph.D., Director, National Institute of General Medical Sciences (October 8, 2007)
Presentations
Pharmacogenomics--A Powerful and Challenging Approach to Personalized Medicine [PDF, 568KB]
Presentation to the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (April 24, 2007)
NIGMS Overview Slides [PDF, 3.46MB]
Presentation at NIGMS Strategic Planning Conference (April 12, 2007)
Articles, Interviews, Podcasts, and Videocasts
The Path from Jellyfish to Medical Advances
Commentary on Google News (October 9, 2008)
Videocast: Jeremy Berg on 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry [MOV, 5.05 MB] (Captions) [Download free Quicktime Player]
Comments about prize to NIGMS grantees (October 8, 2008)
NIGMS Statement on 2008 Chemistry Prize to Grantees
Videocast: Jeremy Berg on Models of Infectious Disease Agent Study
Interview with Voice of America (July 23, 2008)
Update on the Protein Structure Initiative
Article in Structure by Jeremy M. Berg and John Norvell (December 13, 2007)
Nurturing Nobel Winners
Letter to the editor of Time (November 12, 2007)
Podcast: Jeremy Berg on Scientific Careers [Download free Windows Media Player or RealPlayer]
Interview on the weekly College Connection radio program from Oklahoma Higher Education (October 6, 2007)
Videocast: Jeremy Berg on Nobel Prizes [MP3, 2.8MB] (Transcript)
Interview about Nobel Prizes to NIGMS grantees (October 2, 2007)
Podcast: Study Links Faulty DNA Repair to Huntington's Disease Onset [Download free RealPlayer]
Audio report from the NIH Radio News Service (May 4, 2007)
NIH and Chemistry
Letter to the editor of Chemical & Engineering News (February 19, 2007)
Opportunities for Chemical Biologists: A View from the National Institutes of Health
Article in ACS Chemical Biology on NIH programs relevant to the chemistry community (October 20, 2006)
Jeremy Berg, PhD - Heading Up a "Catch-All" Research Institute
Article in JAMA (December 7, 2005)
The Protein Structure Initiative, Five Years Later
Article in The Scientist by Jeremy M. Berg and John Norvell (October 24, 2005)
The NIH Roadmap Charts New Territory in Medical Research
Article about a presentation to the American Chemical Society (August 30, 2004)
Berg at Home at Helm of NIGMS
Article in Chemical & Engineering News (May 24, 2004)
Jeremy M. Berg: Learning of Zinc Finger Proteins Helped NIGMS's New Director Focus His Research
Article in Chemical & Engineering News (May 17, 2004)
More Than Just the Sum of Parts: New NIGMS Director Sees an Interdisciplinary Future for Basic Biomedical Research and Training
Interview (January 6, 2004)
Contact Information
Jeremy M. Berg, Ph.D.
Director, National Institute of General Medical Sciences
45 Center Drive MSC 6200, Room 2AN.12
Bethesda, MD 20892-6200
301-594-2172
301-402-0156 (fax)
bergj@mail.nih.gov
