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Heading Up a "Catch-All" Research Institute

Tracy Hampton, PhD

JAMA. 2005;294:2685-2686.

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Since unfolding the Roadmap for Medical Research in 2003, a blueprint for identifying major opportunities and gaps in biomedical research that no one institute can tackle alone, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has attempted to integrate all fields of science to create a more collaborative environment for discoveries. In many ways, the Roadmap’s mission overlaps with the goals of one of NIH’s core institutes, the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), which for years has funded basic research related to diverse biological processes and diseases.

Shortly after the Roadmap was announced, Jeremy Berg, PhD, took the reins as director of NIGMS. Berg, who has bachelor’s and master’s degrees in chemistry from Stanford University and a PhD in chemistry from Harvard University, has spent many years as a researcher studying the roles of zinc-containing proteins that bind DNA and regulate gene expression. He has coauthored many . . . [Full Text of this Article]