Affiliation: Washington University School of Medicine, Barnes-Jewish Hospital

Dr. Bery’s first experience with basic science research occurred during his undergraduate training at Emory University where he worked in Dr. Todd Schlenke’s lab focused on evolutionary genetics, immunology, and ecology in Drosophila melanogaster with a special focus on interactions with specialized parasitoid wasps. During medical school, Dr. Bery worked in Dr. Susan Mackinnon’s lab at Washington University which focused on peripheral nerve injury in a rat model. During internal medicine residency at Barnes-Jewish Hospital, he received intramural grant funding from the Mentors in Medicine program to craft a clinical research project and participated in the Clinician-Scientist Training and Research program. During his Pulmonary and Critical Care fellowship, he became interested in lung transplantation and realized the urgent need to better understand immune pathways after lung transplantation to improve outcomes, which galvanized his interest in becoming a physician-scientist. Dr. Bery elected to transition to a T32 training grant and joined Dr. Daniel Kreisel’s lab where his work has focused on innate and adaptive immune responses after lung transplantation. Since joining the Kreisel Lab, Dr. Bery have been active in performing basic science experiments and have authored/co-authored multiple reviews and clinical and basic science manuscripts. He recently received a 2023 Dean’s Scholars Award from the Division of Physician Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine for his work on the role of interleukin-1β in the prevention of lung allograft rejection.