Edward Alan Berger, Ph.D.

Image ModifiedIn 1987, Dr. Edward Berger joined the NIAID Laboratory of Viral Diseases as an expert on how biological chemicals pass through cell membranes and how the membranes control interactions between cells. He had begun studying these subjects in the 1970s as a doctoral student at Cornell, and he continued this research as a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University and Scripps. He maintained this research focus subsequently while serving 10 years as a Principal Investigator at the Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology in Massachusetts. The sudden emergence of HIV/AIDS in the early 1980s sparked Dr. Berger to redirect his research focus toward this impending global health threat.

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