James Michael Berger (born 1968) is an American academic working as a professor of biophysics and biophysical chemistry at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, where he is also the co-director of the Cancer Chemical and Structural Biology Program at the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center and the director of the Johns Hopkins Institute for Basic Biomedical Sciences.
Raised in Santa Fe, New Mexico, both of his parents were employed at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
[4] After graduating in 1990, he earned his PhD from Harvard University, where he studied protein crystallography and worked with James C. Wang.
Berger's lab researches DNA replication and the organization of the enzymes that are involved and the role of ATP in this process.
[5] In 1994, he married Marian Feldman, a professor of Near Eastern Studies, while both were graduate students at Harvard University.