Dr. Nathan A. Berger is the Hanna-Payne Professor of Experimental Medicine and Director of the Center for Science, Health, and Society at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. He is a Professor of Medicine, Biochemistry, Oncology, and Genetics and a CWRU Distinguished University Professor. From 1968 to 1971, he served as a Lieutenant Commander in the United States Public Health Service and a Research Associate at the NIH, NICHD Gerontology Research Center, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Baltimore, Maryland. He completed a fellowship in Hematology and Oncology at Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, and joined the faculty there before moving to Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in Cleveland, Ohio, as Professor of Medicine and Biochemistry and Director of the Hematology and Oncology Division. He became the Founding Director of the Case Western Reserve University/Ireland Cancer Center, which was awarded NCI Cancer Center status in 1987 and subsequently designated an NCI Comprehensive Cancer Center. He was Dean of Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine from 1995 to 2002. His current research focuses on Transdisciplinary Studies in Energy Balance and Cancer and critical aspects of the relationship between Aging and Cancer.