Jeremy M. Berg

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Jeremy Mark Berg is the director of the National Institute of General Medical Sciences. He was formerly a professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Director of the Department of Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry^[1] and author of several books, including the text book Biochemistry. Biochemistry is currently at its sixth edition and is widely used by many universities. He co-authored the book with John L. Tymoczko and Lubert Stryer and Principles of Bioinorganic Chemistry with Stephen J. Lippard. He received the American Chemical Society Award in Pure Chemistry in 1993. He is widely known for his work on zinc finger proteins including his successful prediction of the three-dimensional structure of TFIIIA-type zinc finger domains prior to the experimental determination of their structures.