Abstract
AFTER LEADING the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) for seven years, Jeremy M. Berg announced on Dec. 6 that he is stepping down to take an academic post. Berg will leave NIH in June 2011 to join the University of Pittsburgh as an associate senior vice chancellor for science strategy and planning in the health sciences. He will also be taking a position in the School of Medicine’s department of computational and systems biology. “I had no intention of leaving NIGMS at this point, but am doing so in support of the career of my wife, a leading breast imaging clinical researcher,” Berg said in a statement. “After a change in her situation earlier this year, she was recruited by many institutions around the country, and the University of Pittsburgh offered tremendous opportunities for each of us.” During his career at NIGMS, Berg helped increase support for new investigators ...
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