Dr. Berg is currently Professor and Chair of the Department of Immunology & Microbiology and Director of the Human Immunology and Immunotherapy Initiative at the University of Colorado-Anschutz School of Medicine
She received her B.A. degree in Biology from Harvard University and her Ph.D. degree in Molecular Biology from the University of California at Berkeley. Following her graduate training, Dr. Berg did postdoctoral research in Immunology at the Stanford University School of Medicine, and then joined the faculty at Harvard University.
In 1998, she moved to the University of Massachusetts Medical School, where she was named Professor in 2001, before moving to the University of Colorado School of Medicine in 2019.
As an immunologist, Dr. Berg’s research has focused on signal transduction pathways in T lymphocytes, with an emphasis on understanding the antigen receptor and cytokine receptor signaling pathways that regulate T lymphocyte development and effector function. For these studies, her lab uses a combination of mouse genetics, biochemistry, and cellular immunology.
This work has been continuously supported by the National Institutes of Health since 1994, and has been recognized with a Cancer Research Institute Investigator Award, a Young Investigator Award from the Harcourt General Charitable Foundation, the American Association of Immunologists-Pharmingen Award for Outstanding Contributions to the field of Immunology, the Chestnut Hill Award for Excellence in Medical Research, and as a Distinguished Fellow of the American Association of Immunologists. She also served as President of the American Association of Immunologists from 2011-2012.
