Dr. Berry is a professor in the Department of Biostatistics of The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. He was founding chair of this department in 1999 and founding head of the Division of Quantitative Sciences, including the Department of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, in 2006. Dr. Berry received a PhD degree in statistics from Yale University and previously served on the faculties of the University of Minnesota and Duke University. He held endowed faculty positions at Duke University and at MD Anderson.

Dr. Berry has served as a faculty statistician on the Breast Cancer Committee of the Cancer and Leukemia Group B, a national oncology group. He has designed and supervised the conduct of many large US intergroup trials in breast cancer. A principal focus of Dr. Berry’s research is the use of biomarkers in cancer and other diseases for learning which patients benefit from which therapies, based on genomics and phenotype. He designed and is a co-PI of I-SPY 2 (www.ispy2.org), a Bayesian adaptive platform clinical trial in high-risk early breast cancer whose goal is matching experimental therapies with patient subsets defined by tumor molecular characteristics.

Since 1997 Dr. Berry has served on the NCI’s PDQ Screening and Prevention Board, for which he received the NIH Award of Merit in 2010. Through Berry Consultants, LLC, he has designed many innovative clinical trials for pharmaceutical and medical device companies and for NIH cooperative groups. Dr. Berry is the author of several books on statistical methodology and over 300 published articles, including first-authored articles in the major medical journals. He has been the principal investigator for numerous research grants from the NIH and the National Science Foundation and is a fellow of the American Statistical Association and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.