Bert van den Berg’s CV

Bert Van den Berg’s Academic positions

  • 2013-Present Professor in Membrane Protein Structural Biology, Structural Biology Laboratory, Institute for Cell and Molecular Biosciences, Newcastle University, UK.
  • 2009-2012 Associate Professor, Program in Molecualr Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, USA (tenure awarded in 2012).
  • 2004-2009 Assistant Professor, Program in Molecualr Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, USA.

Bert Van den Berg’s Research positions

  • 2000-2004 Postdoctoral research follow, Cell Biology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
  • 1998-1999 Postdoctoral research fellow, Inorganic Chemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
  • 1997 Postdoctoral research fellow, Physichal Chemistry, University of Granada, Granada, Spain.
  • 1995-1996 Postdoctoral research fellow, Inorganic Chemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.

Bert Van den Berg’s Awards

  • 2019 Wellcome Trust Investigator Award
  • 2013 Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award.
  • 2005 Elected a PEW scholar in the Biomedical Sciences.

Bert Van den Berg’s Grants

  • 214222/Z/18/Z; Understanding small molecule uptake by the Bacteroidetes, Wellcome Trust Investigator Award (2019-2024; PI).
  • BB/R004366/1; Structural basis for maintenance of outer membrane lipid asymmetry, BBSRC (2018-2021; PI).
  • Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) Translocation: Molecular basis of the bacterial cell wall permeability (part of the EU program New Drugs for Bad Drugs) (2013-2017; consortium partner).
  • NIH 1R01GM104495-01 Understanding hydrocarbon uptake as the first step in bidegradation (2013-2016; PI).
  • PEW Research Fellow Award (2006-2010).
  • NIH 1R01GM085785-01A1 Structural and biochemical characterisation of the OprD membrane protein family (2008-2012; PI).
  • NIH 1R01GM074824 Hydrophobics transport across the outer membrane (2005-2010; PI).